Manuscript Central™ Delivers Submissions Tailored by Manuscript Type

Charlottesville, VA, February 28, 2006

ScholarOne® is pleased to announce the deployment of Manuscript Central version 3.4. As the latest release of the ScholarOne flagship product, Manuscript Central 3.4 delivers significant usability and workflow enhancements to the largest online peer review community of authors, reviewers, editors, and administrators.

Journals rely on Manuscript Central to collect and route manuscripts and metadata efficiently to their stakeholders. To streamline the data collection process during manuscript submission, the system will now enable journals to vary the submission process, including tailoring the submission of each specific manuscript type for custom questions, instructions, field limits, key words, and file uploads. This flexibility provides authors with a made-to-order submission experience, while journals and their production systems receive only the relevant data fields for each manuscript type.

This release has streamlined the reviewer's experience as well. Manuscript Central now offers "deep links" for the reviewer by enabling immediate access to the exact manuscript and review forms without having to remember log-in information, so "deep links" is ideal for infrequent users.

This release continues to broaden the on-demand information available in Manuscript Central. With a single click, users have access to the specific data they need, saving them valuable time and keystrokes:

  • One-click view of the manuscript history (including score sheet details, recommendations, decision letters, and author's responses for all prior manuscript versions) at the time of assigning reviewers and making decisions.
  • Quick links for reviewers to the decision letter and to the author's response for previous versions of the manuscript regardless of the reviewers' involvement in prior review cycles
  • The ability to quickly jump to advanced manuscript and user searches from virtually any page in the application
  • Administrative ability to quickly update a submitted review or recommendation without sending it back to the reviewer and losing valuable peer review cycles
  • A decrease in administrative time spent on duplicate account management by marking a user for merging, directly from user search results, critical steps in protecting reviewer and author anonymity.

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.