Proceedings of the Japan Concrete Institute recently launched on Editorial Manager using the Japanese language pack. For more on available language packs, view the product sheet or
watch this short video.
Water Conservation and Efficiency, published by Razi Publishing, joins numerous other Razi journals using Editorial Manager to streamline their submission and peer review workflows. Sixteen Razi journals utilize EM.
EDP Sciences has launched a new open access title, BioMedicine, using Editorial Manager for its peer review workflows. BioMedicine uses EM’s similarity check integration. There are no costs to authors publishing their articles in this gold OA journal, as all APCs are fully waived by the journal owner.
The 15th Annual Editorial Manager User Group Meeting is quickly approaching! EMUG 2017 sessions cover key industry topics such as Working with Preprint Servers, Transfer Functionality, EM Ingest, Underused Features, and more. Register today before the discounted rate expires on May 22.
Editorial Manager customer Springer Nature and Aries Integration Partner ORCID announced an important collaboration earlier this month. Springer Nature will require ORCID iDs from corresponding authors in 46 journals, and also allows authors to include ORCID iDs in 1,200 Proceedings volumes annually. See this video to configure ORCID requirements by article type.
Alison Mitchell, Chief Publishing Advisor at Springer Nature, says: “We want our authors to share their discoveries and receive proper credit for doing so. Hundreds of thousands of our authors already support ORCID, and our technical systems are already very well-integrated, but we hope that the upcoming trial will go further to ensure that even more academics sign up for ORCID and get recognition for their work.” Read the full release.
BioMed Central launched a results-free review pilot on BMC Psychology in December. Results-free means that the results and discussion sections are initially omitted from the version of the manuscript sent through the peer review process.
According to Liz Bal, Associate Publisher for BioMed Central and SpringerOpen, the preliminary results have shown the process to be feasible and author uptake has been high.
“Our focus now is to optimize the technical workflow so that results-free review can be rolled out with minimal extra work to other journals at BMC, as part of a full randomized-controlled trial (RCT),” said Bal. 
“Our aim for the RCT is to provide definitive evidence of whether a relatively simple change to standard peer-review processes, easily enacted by journals, can reduce publication bias, and thus provide an evidence-based solution to the wider reproducibility crisis.”
EM Ingest partner Editage is surveying the global author community toward gaining 
a better understanding of author perspectives on academic publishing. The survey will remain open until 20K responses have been gathered across the world. Upon completion, Editage will publish the report.
Why not share the survey with your author community? The survey is available in multiple languages: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese.
UK Account Coordinator Michaela Barton has adapted her Underused Features session 
from the 2017 EEMUG Meeting for the latest issue of ISMTE’s EON.
Find out which features you might not yet be leveraging!
Calling for increased awareness of issues and topics surrounding Peer Review, the cross-industry initiative Peer Review Week announces official dates and this year’s theme: Transparency in Review. This is the third year Peer Review Week has engaged organizations across the industry to plan and promote a program of Peer Review-focused discussion and engagement. This is the second year Aries has participated as a planning organization. Read more, including invitations to submit your own organization’s PRW events or resources and attend a Transparency themed panel discussion at Peer Review Congress.
American Psychological Association (APA) has collected over 12,000 authenticated ORCID iDs
across its 90 journals using Editorial Manager for submission and peer review workflows.
“We are fairly early in our ORCID adoption, but we’re really excited about the possibilities,” said Peer Review Manager Lois Jones at APA. “We appreciate the different integration options, and how easy it’s becoming
for authors and reviewers to link their ORCID iDs.”
In Editorial Manager version 14.0,
enhanced Editor Summary Reminder Reports 
can include a color-coded representation of the folders on the Editor Main Menu (Editor Signposting). Editors can use deep links to directly access relevant folders and manuscripts without signing in to the system. Watch the video.
Thinking about integrating with preprint servers like bioRxiv? 
EM users already have! Find out how.
Plus, brush up on your knowledge of DOIs in workflow with this helpful video.
