Upcoming Webinars

We are happy to announce upcoming webinars featuring the new capabilities of version 7.2. The webinars include one hour of instruction followed by a fifteen-minute question and answer period.

Scheduled Webinars:

General Enhancements – Review the new enhancements of version 7.2, such as Automatic Reviewer Reminders, Custom Instructions on Author Main Menu, Sharing Saved Search Definitions with Other Users, and more. Offered on Wednesday, February 10th at 10:00 AM EST and Friday, February 12th at 2:00 PM EST.

Preprint Manager/Production Tracking Enhancements – Explore the new features available in Production Tracking, such as Interactive View of the Production Status Grid, Increased Visibility throughout Production for Authors, and more. Offered on Thursday, February 11th at 10:30 AM EST.

Be sure to register early as participation is limited to 12 attendees per session. If you have any questions regarding the scheduled webinars, please contact your account coordinator.

Multilingual “Toolkit” Brings Editorial Manager to the World

Aries has released an innovative multi-lingual “toolkit” that enables business partners to translate Editorial Manager pages. The web-based utility can be accessed from anywhere in the world and permits authorized translators to modify text, browse, search and preview. Sophisticated release management permits control of work-in-progress and updates that reflect new code releases. Translated pages are combined into “language packs” that can be applied to specific Editorial Manager deployments. Example of a page translated by Aries business partner, Atlas:

3,600+ Journals Live on Editorial Manager

More than 3,600 journals are now running Editorial Manager for online submission and peer review. For a complete list click here. Recently deployed journals include:

Version 7.3 in Beta

Aries is pleased to announce the Beta Release of Version 7.3. New features include:

• Cross journal manuscript transfer
• Contributing author enhancements
• Reviewer selection enhancements
• Cross journal reporting
• Searches for manuscript “flags”
• Editor Discussion Forums

If you would like to be a beta tester please let us know: marketing@ariessys.com.

Aries Participates in ORCID Discussions Aimed at Author Disambiguation

Many authors share the same names (John Smith). Some authors change names (Ms. Jones becomes Mrs. Allen). Some authors have multiple identities (John Smith, J. Smith, J.D. Smith, etc). These characteristics add complexity to manuscript workflow and hinder downstream information discovery. Ideally authors would be identified by definitive, unchanging unique IDs so that their publications can be reliably tracked and connected over time.

To address this problem, several organizations (including Aries Systems Corporation) have recently announced a new collaboration. The ORCID (www.orcid.org) initiative represents a community effort to establish an open, independent registry of researcher IDs. If you have suggestions about how an author ID could be used to improve EM, our product management team would like to hear from you: marketing@ariessys.com