The Royal Society Selects Manuscript Central™

Charlottesville, VA, March 31, 2006

ScholarOne®, the leading provider of Web-based workflow and management solutions for scholarly publishers, is pleased to announce that the Royal Society has selected Manuscript Central for its online peer review.

"The Royal Society's journals have been growing rapidly in recent years, in part due to our efforts to offer excellent service for our referees and authors and to ensure that our rigorous peer-review processes operate as rapidly and effectively as possible. We are delighted to have selected ScholarOne to replace our existing online submission and editorial tracking system for our eight journals. We see this partnership as a key element in achieving even higher levels of customer service and speed of publication," said Ian Russell, Head of Publishing at the Royal Society.

"It is with great pleasure that we welcome the Royal Society to the Manuscript Central user community. As the publisher of the world's longest-running international science journal, they have considered their selection of online peer review systems very carefully. We are delighted that they have elected to partner with ScholarOne," 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 2.9 million registered 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 82 people at its Charlottesville, Virginia, headquarters and in Washington, DC; Boston; London; and Bielefeld, Germany.

About the Royal Society

The Royal Society (www.royalsoc.ac.uk), the UK's national academy of science, is at the cutting edge of scientific progress. It supports many of the UK's top young scientists, engineers and technologists. It influences science policy, it debates scientific issues with the public and much more. It is an independent, charitable body which derives its authoritative status from its 1400 Fellows and Foreign Members. The origins of the Royal Society lie in an "invisible college" of natural philosophers who began meeting in the mid-1640s to discuss the ideas of Francis Bacon. Its official foundation date is 28 November 1660, when 12 of them met at Gresham College after a lecture by Christopher Wren, the Gresham Professor of Astronomy, and decided to found 'a College for the Promoting of Physico-Mathematical Experimental Learning'.

The Society's objectives are to:

  • strengthen UK science by providing support to excellent individuals
  • fund excellent research to push back the frontiers of knowledge
  • attract and retain the best scientists
  • ensure the UK engages with the best science around the world
  • support science communication and education; and communicate and encourage dialogue with the public
  • provide the best independent advice nationally and internationally
  • promote scholarship and encourage research into the history of science