Aries Systems’ President Co-authors Paper on the History of Peer Review

In collaboration with Greg Tananbaum of ScholarNext Consulting, Lyndon Holmes, President of Aries Systems Corporation, recently co-authored an article on the history of Web-based peer review which was published in the October issue of the journal Learned Publishing. The paper covers the evolution of electronic solutions for the editorial workflow from the earliest experiments in the 1970’s to the current dominance of online systems in the scholarly publishing industry.

 

The full article (DOI: 10.1087/095315108X356734) can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315108X356734.

Upcoming Webinars Feature the Improved Functionality of v6.1

We are happy to announce a series of upcoming webinars featuring the powerful capabilities of version 6.1. The webinars will include one hour of instruction followed by a fifteen-minute question and answer period. Each session will focus on a subset of v6.1 functionality and will be offered twice for your convenience. For more information, please contact your Account Coordinator.

 

For existing customers, each webinar will be billed as a standard support incident in your quarterly support charges and will appear on the invoice as “webinar.”

 

If you are not currently an Aries Systems customer but would like to participate, please send an email to marketing@ariessys.com.

 

Be sure to register early as participation is limited to 12 attendees per session.

Professional Engineering Publishing Selects Preprint Manager

Professional Engineering Publishing (the publishing division of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers) will transition to Web-based production tracking using Preprint Manager from Aries Systems Corporation. Mick Spencer, the Journals Production Manager at PEP, commented, “Manuscript production is mission critical and time sensitive. We selected Aries because they have an established track record delivering reliable and configurable workflow solutions and their offering is backed by a substantial development and support organization.”

Dutch Medical Journal Goes Live with Editorial Manager

The independently published Dutch Journal of Medicine (Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde) reaches more than 28,000 readers every week with clinically relevant articles. Founded in 1857, the journal attracts submissions in medicine and healthcare and applies a rigorous editorial and peer review process.

 

A key requirement for transitioning to online peer review was the ability to customize author-facing pages to include instructions and hints in Dutch, the native language of most of its contributing authors. The Web-based administration pages in Editorial Manager made this possible without the need for expensive customized software development. With the assistance of Aries’ support staff, the journal office was also able to successfully customize workflows, article types and user roles to reflect the journal’s local needs.

 

Following the live launch of the submission site on October 10, 2008, Inge de Boer (Project manager for the EM launch) commented, “We were very happy with the possibility to take part in the Gamma testing of EM 6.1. This enabled us to go live with the most up-to-date software, instead of having to update our site within two months of the initial launch. And of course, the Aries support staff has been extremely helpful throughout the process.”

 

The Dutch Journal of Medicine’s submission site is at the following URL: http://www.edmgr.com/ntvg/

American Antiquity Becomes the 3,000th Journal Using Editorial Manager

In October 2008, the number of publications using Editorial Manager surpassed 3,000! The journal that helped Aries reach this exciting milestone was American Antiquity, a journal of the Society for American Archaeology.

Based in Washington DC, the Society for American Archaeology is an international association with over 7,000 members “dedicated to the research, interpretation, and protection of the archaeological heritage of the Americas.”

We welcome American Antiquity to the growing list of publications using Editorial Manager for online peer review. See American Antiquity‘s submission site here.