At Aries Systems’ biannual user group meetings, Editorial Manager® (EM) and ProduXion Manager® (PM) users suggest and vote for new features and system enhancements during our signature Feature Workshop and interactive Feature Poster. A common request received from users is to include more batch functionality within EM/PM, allowing publications to complete certain actions in bulkRead More
Editorial Manager® (EM), Aries Systems’ manuscript submission and peer review tracking system, is equipped with powerful configuration settings, providing publishers the ability to independently customize their journal sites to best suit their needs at no additional cost. However, journal offices may not be aware of the many features available within the system designed to enhanceRead More
Authors are often required to provide an extensive amount of information upfront in order to submit a manuscript to a scholarly journal. However, many submissions received by publications never pass the initial evaluation stage, with Editors immediately declining the submission if it is not within the scope of the journal. This results in a lossRead More
Tell us a little about yourself – how long have you been working for Aries? What did you do before joining Aries? I joined Aries in 2009 after being a freelance consultant for 15 years. How have your previous roles helped you in your current position? Working with various clients, both small and large, hasRead More
Aries Systems is pleased to announce that registration for our 2021 virtual Editorial Manager User Group (EMUG) meeting is now open! An online approach to our traditional in-person user groups, EMUG 2021 is designed to deliver the same great insights! The conference will include Aries’ signature Feature Workshop and presentations highlighting the latest EM/PM systemRead More
Publishers with many journals in their portfolio often need to manage assignments across several publications at once, requiring staff to jump between sites within the same platform. This creates a taxing process of logging in-and-out of or switching between main menus from one journal site to the next, causing frustrating delays and confusion for staffRead More
Recognizing Reviewers for their work is critical to the success of peer review and maintaining Reviewer talent. Each year, millions of hours are volunteered by researchers to conduct reviews for scholarly journals and pending manuscripts, often without formal acknowledgement for their time and effort. To bridge this gap, Aries Systems has partnered with several ReviewerRead More
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) held their second annual conference, NISO Plus 2021, on February 22-25. Aries Systems is pleased to have sponsored the virtual meeting, which included 850 participants from 26 countries around the world. Aries Business Systems Analyst, Charles O’Connor, presented “Sub-setting the JATS DTD – So What?” during the Solving ProblemsRead More
Tell us a little about yourself – how long have you been working for Aries? What did you do before joining Aries? In the 80‘s I studied education for handicapped people and taught history. Prior to that, I visited Gallaudet University in the US. It is the first university established for deaf students and IRead More
Due to current circumstances, Aries Systems shifted our annual European Editorial Manager User Group (EEMUG) meeting held in London, to a virtual five-part series webinar series designed to deliver the same great insights from our in-person events. The series featured a diverse set of topics with multiple guest speakers and was offered to Editorial Manager/ProduXionRead More
Tell us a little about yourself – how long have you been working for Aries? What did you do before joining Aries? I’m a UK-based Account Coordinator, and I’ve been with Aries since March 2018. I have worked in publishing in editorial office and commissioning roles since 2000 (with a couple of short stints inRead More
Tell us a little about yourself – how long have you been working for Aries? What did you do before joining Aries? I have been with Aries for over five years, and have been on the Product Management (PM) team for four of those years. I actually came to Aries from one of our largeRead More