Editorial Manager - 2005 European Editorial Manager User Group Highlights

"We are very excited to work with Editorial Manager. We were all very impressed and appreciate the customer service, too. Thank you for your very informative instruction."
Cindy Garcia
Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry

"With EM, I can do twice the work in half the time it used to take me."
Leslie Thacker
Diagnostic Molecular Pathology

"Editorial Manager 4.0 represents one of the most comprehensive updates to the system since its inception. These changes include a host of refinements and new additions. As a whole, 4.0 is a welcome upgrade and the majority of enhancements will enrich the EM experience."
David M. Allen
Publications Specialist
Journal of Bone and Mineral Research

"EM has definitely made my life easier! You anticipate features I'd like to see, such as reference checking and linking with eXtyles, sometimes before I even think of them. Thank you."

Sue Shock
Medicine

"EM is essential. I cannot imagine functioning without it. Customer service is extraordinary; well above that of any other organization."

Donna Stroud
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

"I have completed all the reviewer invitations for the current manuscripts, and I just love this system! I had absolutely no problems, and everything worked great - and I kept catching on more and more as I used the system. Wow - this all makes my life so easy! It is terrific!"

Peggy Chin
Editor
Advances in Nursing Science

"It is a pleasure to deal with an organization that reacts positively to user feedback and that incorporates the real-life experiences of customers into product improvements."

Nijsje Dorman, Ph.D.
Sean Sanders, Ph.D.
Assistant Editors
BioTechniques

"The impressive increase in the citation impact factor has drawn more authors to our journal, this along with the ease of submitting manuscripts using Editorial Manager helped to boost our submissions by more than 10% in 2004."

Cami Lind
Editorial Assistant
Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

"Operating a Journal Office without Editorial Manager would be like baking bread without yeast. Just do not know how you would get anywhere without it!"

Jackie Lynch
Senior Editorial Coordinator
The Laryngoscope

"I just wanted to say that EM is an excellent system and from the many positive comments we have received, that it is by far superior to other systems being used. Just for your information... if we continue to get submissions at our current rate, by the end of the year, we will double our submission rate from previous years."

Betty Schiefelbein,
Managing Editor
Remote Sensing of Environment

"The "Proposals and Invited Papers" feature in the 3.0 version of Editorial Manager is a greatly anticipated upgrade. It functioned smoothly in beta testing and appears versatile: We plan to apply it both to invited editorials and letters to the editor and their replies. It represents just one of many examples of Aries' responsiveness to editorial office requests."

Pamela Fried
Managing Editor
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

"Largely as a result of the success of Editorial Manager, we have significantly decreased the average number of days from manuscript receipt to publication. Most authors and reviewers have become comfortable with EM and, in fact, many like it better than other systems they come across."

Deanna Gunderson,
Managing Editor
American Journal of Kidney Disease

"We have been using it for about 15 months now and really like it. The editor of the journal recently moved to Virginia, but with EM we are able to keep the journal office in Texas without any change to the way we handle manuscripts. Our authors, referees and publisher have all praised the web-based system."

Sarah Pierce-Rubio
Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine

"At any given time our journal has between 80 and 90 live manuscripts, and I seem to be able to handle everything working 12 to 16 hours per week largely because EM does so much for me."

Caroline Verdier,
Managing Editor
Cognitive Science

"Editorial Manager offers the right mix of software functionality and configurability. We particularly like the flexibility of the reporting system which will enable us to monitor and track the journals in a detailed and systematic way."

Julie Neason,
Journals Manager
British Psychological Society

"As a leading scientific publisher, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins continues to offer the best solution to our authors and editorial boards. Aries has a solid track record of successful software development, and their Editorial Manager system has proven to be a superior online manuscript submission and tracking solution."

Patti Ward,
Manager of Editorial Solutions
Lippincott Williams and Wilkins

"We've been impressed with the pace and reliability of innovation delivered by the Editorial Manager development team."

Harry Verwayen,
Business Development Manager
Kluwer Academic Publishers

"Our editors are pleased that we've had a 32% increase in submissions compared with 2001, and Web-based access can certainly be credited for playing a role in that increase. Our international authors are especially excited about the product. We've surveyed authors and reviewers and gotten a very positive response to the system overall."

Nancy Medina,
Director
Annals of Emergency Medicine

"We would like to congratulate you and your team on the excellent upgrade."

Journal Office Comment

"I just wanted to send a note of appreciation for the support we are receiving from Amy. She is doing an outstanding job helping us and I sincerely appreciate her efforts. She is prompt, courteous, and so helpful in working out any problems we encounter. I feel very fortunate to have her as my Editorial Manager contact."

Journal Office Comment

"The system has helped cut late reviews to just 16 or 17 per cent....Contributors get a "yes" or a "no" much more quickly, the average time has dropped from 52 business days to 25."

Adrienne Lea,
Director of Publications
Journal of Bone and Mineral Research

"Thanks! I'm really proud of this one, and I have to say that part of the reason I like doing reviews for Annals so much is the excellent staff, and the ridiculously friendly web-based review system."

David C. Cone, MD
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Public Health
Chief, Division of EMS, Section of Emergency Medicine
Yale School of Medicine

"I just wanted to share with you some positive comments about EM that I just received from one of our Section Editors. He called specifically to say that he is very impressed with the reviewer assignment and reporting features."

Journal Office Comment

"I found that sending decision letters via EM is a pleasure. I was able to send nine letters in a half-hour. In the old system, those same letters would have taken two hours. EM has revolutionized the decision letter process."

Journal Office Comment

"EM has been a delight to use. "

Journal Office Comment

"One of our Editorial Board members sent this super nice message last week. He also called to say "hats off" to the designers of the system because he liked it so much. I think this message is a great compliment to everyone at Aries."

Journal Office Comment

"I have agreed to review the manuscript but have a question. What is the program that identifies similar articles using MEDLINE? It's very good!"

Unsolicited Reviewer Comment

"I have just tried the online review process and I congratulate you and the journal for an excellent system! In fact, this is the best I have encountered. I like the related articles feature and the fact that we can add special characters which many journals do not offer. Great job."

Unsolicited Section Editor Comment

"I have submitted the article via the web system. I found this system to be very easy to understand and use, and also very quick."

Unsolicited Author Comment

"I have submitted the article electronically. The system is wonderful."

Unsolicited Author Comment

"We're really enjoying the 3.0 EM upgrade. The staff who work on the journals we upgraded to 3.0 have been singing the praises of .zip file uploads for the last week!"

Ryan Kelley
Local Applications Manager
Elsevier Publishing

EEMUG 2005 Annual Meeting – Summary and Highlights

Second Annual European User Group Meeting Proves to Be a Success!

More than 60 people attended the Second Annual European Editorial Manager User Group (EEMUG). The event took place at the BMA House in London on December 2, 2005.

UK Representative Brian Lewis gave an in-depth presentation on new features now available in Editorial Manager 4.0, including new options for letters, reviewer statistics, and CSS, plus assignment status reports and smart-linking to bibliographic sources. Liz Blake of Inera Inc. offered insights on using eXtyles for reference-checking in EM 4.0. Other presentations included a section on HTML with Jennifer Fleet (Director of Customer Service), and a preview of new features in development for Editorial Manager 5.0, by Richard Wynne, VP of Sales and Marketing.

UK Account Coordinators Sean MacRae and Wendy Moore conducted specialized Reports Clinics to help users make the most of Custom Reports and General Data Export tools. As usual, the New Features Workshop proved to be one of the most popular and successful sessions of the event. The New Feature Workshops allow users to discuss Editorial Manager in small groups, and to give valuable feedback about new features and changes they would like to see. Following the meeting, user feedback is reviewed by our product development team, and many of the ideas will be reflected in future versions of EM.

Evaluation forms filled out by attendees showed a consensus of opinion that the User Group Meeting is an excellent way to network with colleagues. Among the favorite sessions were the New Features Workshops, the thorough 4.0 demonstration, and the preview of Editorial Manager 5.0.

The Aries staff particularly enjoyed meeting clients in person, and listening to suggestions for future releases of EM. An important goal of the meeting was to display Aries' commitment to enhancing users' productivity and to developing technology to help journals thrive.