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 almost 13 years now! I joined the Customer Service department back when there were only three of us on the team. Prior to joining Aries, I workedRead More
Aries is committed to providing high-quality service to our user community. The Aries Client Services team delivers best-in-class support to publishers before, during and after launching their Editorial Manager® or ProduXion Manager® deployments. Whether you have just migrated from a legacy system to EM or are an EM/PM super-user, our dedicated team of experts isRead 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 November 2017 after 20 years in the Netherlands, 18 of which I’d spent working at the Amsterdam headquarters of Elsevier, now our parent company. As a Technical Product ManagerRead More
With the cancellation of the 18th annual Editorial Manager User Group Meeting (EMUG 2020) due to the coronavirus pandemic, Aries Systems transitioned the program into a knowledge-packed webinar series. Although we missed seeing everyone in-person, we are thrilled to have had the opportunity to engage with our user community in a virtual environment The five-partRead More
Working from home has become the new norm due to the recent COVID-19 pandemic, but the quick shift from the in-office work culture to telecommuting has left many ill prepared to deal with managing their own technology. Working from the comfort of your own home certainly has its perks, such as flexible work hours, theRead 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 just over 18 months. Prior to Aries, I was VP of Business Development for 14 years at Copyright Clearance Center (CCC). This is where I was first introducedRead More
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announced the approval and publication of the Manuscript Exchange Common Approach (MECA) Recommended Practice. The Manuscript Exchange Common Approach is an industry-wide, cross-organization initiative that strives to facilitate and standardize multiple types of manuscript transfer within and between manuscript and peer review systems. Authors are often required to re-submitRead More
Tell us a little about yourself – how long have you been working for Aries? What have your roles at Aries been? I have worked for Aries for 10 years now. I started as a contractor working on making Editorial Manager multilingual. My job consisted of adding language tokens on all pages within EM butRead More
Aries is pleased to be featured as a guest speaker in Copyright Clearance Center’s (CCC) upcoming webinar, Streamlining OA Workflows: Use Metadata to Manage APCs. This webinar will highlight how harnessing metadata and identifiers collected during manuscript submission can improve internal efficiencies and compliance with funder mandates and transformative agreements by Open Access standards, andRead More
The publishing community occasionally suffers from cases of questionable authorship and fraudulent peer review, clouding the quality of research. To help prevent this, Editorial Manager® (EM) comes equipped with Identity Confidence Check, a tool that helps Editors evaluate unknown researchers. Identity Confidence Check (ICC) enables Editorial Manager to generate a confidence rating for corresponding andRead More
Hosted by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI of the NIH), the Journal Article Tag Suite Conference (JATS-Con) is a meeting dedicated to those interested or using JATS, an XML format for marking up and exchanging journal content. JATS-Con 2020, originally scheduled for late April at NIH in Bethesda, MD, will be postponed toRead 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 Systems since February 2020 which makes my tenure here a little shy of 3 months. Prior to Aries, I worked in the B2B Payments space for MineralTree, aRead More