ScholarOne® Launches Web Services for Application Information Exchange
Charlottesville, VA, February 28, 2006
ScholarOne, Inc., the leading provider of Web-based workflow and management solutions for scholarly publishers, is pleased to announce Web services for Manuscript Central™ version 3.4.
Manuscript Central version 3.4 includes a Web services interface, a secure industry-standard mechanism for exchanging data with external systems that also support Web services. Integration is supported through a straightforward set of SOAP messages. SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocols) are simple, extensible, XML-based protocols designed to let applications exchange information over HTTP and is independent of platform and programming language. The first application of this functionality is 2-way communication between the Manuscript Central system and customers' production systems. By facilitating the exchange of manuscript and user information between the journal's production system and the Manuscript Central site, manuscript status can be securely transferred from the journal's production system to the Manuscript Central site, where it can be viewed by editorial office staff and authors. Manuscript Central Web sites will continue to provide the ability to export author-supplied original and supplementary files, to review and to ready proofs for the Web, and to send manuscript metadata via e-mail or FTP to the journal-specified recipient or FTP site. Manuscript metadata may be exported as XML, mapped to industry-standard document type definitions (DTD), HTML, or in a CSV (comma separated value) file. All exports can be sent automatically based on batch-mode settings or on a manuscript-by-manuscript basis.
"This is a major step forward for us and we are very excited about making Web services messaging available to our customers. We are constantly striving to improve on our technology and make future-looking features part of today's product offering for Manuscript Central Web sites. We believe that our customers will make use of this feature on a regular basis to improve and simplify their own business processes," said Bill Carden, ScholarOne president and CEO.
About ScholarOne
ScholarOne, Inc. (www.scholarone.com) provides comprehensive workflow management systems for scholarly journals, books, and conferences and serves more than 2.6 million registered Manuscript Central users worldwide. Its Web-based applications enable publishers and meeting managers to manage the submission, peer review, production, and publication processes more efficiently.
The clients of ScholarOne include prestigious, nonprofit societies, university presses, government agencies, and the world's leading commercial publishers. The company employs 76 people at its Charlottesville, Virginia, headquarters and in Washington, DC; Boston, MA; London, UK; and Bielefeld, Germany.