Did You Know? Product Management is at Your Service

Who determines the new features our customers receive in our three annual releases? Our customers!

Aries proudly offers leading edge product management.
Our Product Management team synthesizes feedback from customers into features that are included in our releases.

Here’s a look at Product Management by the numbers:

• 9 team members globally
• Average tenure is 7 years; highest is 14 years
• Average tenure in publishing/software for team members is 13 years

Editorial Humors

Other Editorial Humors cartoons appeared in recent newsletters.

Nice to meet you, v11.2

Our latest feature-rich release arrives in January. Ready to take advantage of many value-added enhancements?

Version 11.2 enables the creation and tracking of cross-journal groups. You can limit reporting user accounts to specific groups of journals.

Your Account Coordinator will be sending you information about upgrading within the next 6 to 8 weeks.

ATLAS’ Successful EMUG Japan

Editorial Manager’s Japanese distributor, ATLAS Co. Ltd., held their annual EMUG meeting October 3 at TKP Garden City Takebashi.

“In EMUG Japan, we value mutual communications between publications and ATLAS, publications and Aries, and among publications,” commented Koji Koike, manager of ATLAS’ Editorial Manager team. “Through the direct communication with participants, we realized EMUG JAPAN is a very meaningful meeting not only for Journal Offices but also ourselves once more.”

Aries Systems Corporation’s Tony Alves, Director of Product Management, attended along with more than 30 others. The meeting included talks on industry initiatives, upcoming EM features and releases and an introduction to reports presented by ATLAS staff.

“It was clear to me, based on how enthusiastic and engaged the participants were, that our partners at ATLAS have done a great job building customer satisfaction,” Tony commented. “The participants seemed to really enjoy the opportunity to discuss their workflow issues and challenges.”

Spring City Culture International Group Uses Editorial Manager to Add Value to STM Journals

Spring City Culture International Group, Singapore-based publishers, benefit from EM’s reviewer discovery tools, and workflow data export for analysis by PRE.

“We looked at different options in the market for launching the journals, but we found Editorial Manager was the most comprehensive and user-friendly system that could fit our requirements,” commented Louisa Ho, Marketing and Communications Executive. “The various workflow charts which we conceived for our journal could be excellently executed with this system. For example, accessing reviewers based on classification matches makes the process of reviewer selection easy.”

“Editorial Manager’s partnership with STRIATUS/JBJS allows publishers to send EM data to PRE to implement a new metric to evaluate the quality of peer review. This ultimately serves to improve the quality of the publications,” Louisa added. “The technical support provided by Aries is exceptional, answering all our queries tirelessly.”

Register Now! Early Bird Rates End December 5

We invite you to register for our 11th Annual Editorial Manager User Group (EEMUG) meetings on January 15 and 16 at etc.venues – The Hatton, London. The event features Guest Speaker Melinda Kenneway of Kudos, presenting Use of Social Media by Scholarly Authors; Chris Kenneally of the Copyright Clearance Center on New Business Models; and Emma Leighton of Maney Publishing on Underused Features.

The meetings provide opportunities to learn about recent workflow innovations and network with Aries staff and industry colleagues. Space is limited, register early! Early bird discounted rates are available until December 5.

Submitting Data? No Sweat.

EM’s submission workflow link functionality for large files and data sets enables submitting authors to link to data sets uploaded to sites like FigShare and Dryad, as well as videos and other multimedia stored on hosting platforms.