The 2020 Frankfurt Book Fair will be held on October 14-18, with the digital program starting earlier on October 12th. With a hybrid of on-site and virtual events, FBF 2020 is packed with a diverse set of sessions, attractions and exhibitions for all audiences throughout the week. Aries Systems Director of Product Management Tony AlvesRead More
Aries Systems is celebrating Peer Review Week’s (PRW) 6th annual event! In a year clouded by so much uncertainty, distrust, skepticism and confusion, building trust has never been as critical as it is today, in the publishing landscape and beyond. From predatory journals, to fraudulent peer review, plagiarism, reproducibility concerns and more, the research communityRead More
Peer Review Week 2020’s theme of “Trust in Peer Review” highlights a value that we all consider fundamental to the scholarly publishing process and community. Editors, authors and reviewers rely on methods such as, single- or double-blind peer review to ensure a bias-free and objective review process. Others choose open peer review for a moreRead More
By Emily Babcock, Systems Support Services Coordinator for J&J Editorial
With the cancellation of the 18th annual Editorial Manager User Group Meeting (EMUG 2020) due to the coronavirus pandemic, Aries Systems transitioned the program into a knowledge-packed webinar series. Although we missed seeing everyone in-person, we are thrilled to have had the opportunity to engage with our user community in a virtual environment. The five-partRead More
Join Aries Systems and The Charlesworth Group for their upcoming joint webinar, Engaging Authors in China through the Charlesworth WeChat Gateway and Aries’ Editorial Manager. To accommodate our global customer-base, we will be broadcasting this presentation during two different times. Register for either our morning or afternoon session! Save the Date: Tuesday, August 18 TimeRead More
Aries is pleased to be featured as a guest speaker in Copyright Clearance Center’s (CCC) upcoming webinar, Streamlining OA Workflows: Use Metadata to Manage APCs. This webinar will highlight how harnessing metadata and identifiers collected during manuscript submission can improve internal efficiencies and compliance with funder mandates and transformative agreements by Open Access standards, andRead More
Hosted by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI of the NIH), the Journal Article Tag Suite Conference (JATS-Con) is a meeting dedicated to those interested or using JATS, an XML format for marking up and exchanging journal content. JATS-Con 2020, originally scheduled for late April at NIH in Bethesda, MD, will be postponed toRead More
Aries Systems has transitioned the 2020 EMUG program into a knowledge-packed webinar series as part of our commitment to support their dedicated user community during this unprecedented time. We understand that you can no longer physically attend our 2020 Editorial Manager User Group Meeting (EMUG) in Boston but that doesn’t mean we can’t deliver allRead More
The first annual NISO Plus conference (recently merged with NFAIS) was held in Baltimore, MD at the Lord Baltimore Hotel on February 23-25. Aries was delighted to attend, sponsor, and speak at NISO Plus 2020. Aries Senior Business Systems Analyst Stacey Lavelle attended the three-day meeting and reflected on her positive experience, commenting “Many ofRead More
Thank you to all of the attendees who joined us in London for our 16th annual European user group meeting last week! Aries was thrilled to see many familiar faces and was excited to welcome over 20 first-time attendees this year! To kick-off the first day of EEMUG 2020, Aries Director of Product Management TonyRead More
The 16th annual European Editorial Manager User Group Meeting (EEMUG) is exactly two weeks from today! What better way to start the New Year than to join fellow Editorial Manager® and ProduXion Manager® users at EEMUG 2020 in London? Aries user group meetings are designed to be mutually beneficial for both Aries Systems and ourRead More