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Please share this page with your non-member colleagues! ScholarOne and Editorial Manager: Tips and Tricks to Improve Efficiency By Miranda A. Sprouse, Editorial Assistant, J&J Editorial September 2021 Miranda Sprouse details some tips to help navigate both ScholarOne, and Editorial Manager, and detailing some of the differences and benefits of each platform which become clear through gaining a mastery of both systems. The Early-Career Special Issue Lindsey Brounstein and Colin Trumbull share a summary of some of their favorite previously published articles which have been updated with added commentary from the original authors, with the hope that while these articles are broadly appealing, that they will be particularly interesting to our early career members at ISMTE. New Member Profile: Kellyanna Bussell Kellyanna Bussell reflects on her experience as a recent new member of ISMTE and explores how those experiences have influenced and sharpened her capabilities in the industry. Characteristics of Solicitation Emails from Presumed Predatory Journals and Lessons to Be Learned When You Attempt to Recruit Authors Jason Roberts discusses strategies journals can implement to distinguish themselves from illegitimate predatory publications in their communications with prospective authors. A Plea for Fairer Sharing of the True Costs of Publication Maastricht University Library1 An adapted version of a blog post published by the Scholarly Kitchen
discussing and exploring different models for publication fees, and suggesting
a different perspective. An Early-Career Conversation with ISMTE Past Presidents, Part Three
Mary Kate Kornegay shares the third and final part of a conversation with ISMTE past presidents from the Early Career Virtual Meetup at the ISMTE North American Virtual Event. An Early-Career Conversation with ISMTE Past Presidents, Part Two Mary Kate Kornegay shares the second part of a conversation with ISMTE past presidents from the Early Career Virtual Meetup at the ISMTE North American Virtual Event.
by Randy Townsend, AGU
November 2020 Randy Townsend discusses important topics surrounding allyship in diversity, equity and inclusion, including the Anitracism Toolkit for Allies from the Toolkits for Equity group, now a part of C4DISC. Managing Mental Health for Editors Caitlyn Trautwein provides useful tips for managing stress, both in general and specifically during the COVID-19 pandemic.
by Alexander M. Vaeth, American Gastroenterological Association
September 2020
Alexander Vaeth provides a detailed look at what “media literacy” means and why it’s important for editorial office professionals to be media literate by Brook A. Simpson and Thoba Petrovic, American Gastroenterological Association
August 2020
Brook Simpson and Thoba Petrovic provide some tips for running larger conference calls via Zoom, such as a journal's annual board of editors meeting. Turning on My Camera: The Virtual Conference Jennifer Mahar shares a few observations about hosting virtual conferences. Working (and Staying Sane) at Home During the Pandemic Dawn Angel provides some tips for working from home during the pandemic, maintaining our sanity, and actually getting work done. Political Advocacy for Beginners (and Introverts) Alethea Gerding provides an introduction to getting involved in political advocacy. Working Remotely: A Perk or a Punishment? Dawn Angel provides some helpful tips and tricks for maintaining your productivity (and your sanity) when working remotely. Unintended Consequences Glenn Collins takes a critical look at open access mandates and what they could mean for journals, societies and publishers. Plan S and Society Publishers: What to Know Now Maggie Haworth discusses Plan S from the perspective of a society publisher. ISMTE 2020 and Beyond Julie Nash and Erin Landis provide some insight into ISMTE’s new strategic plan. From Society Publishing to Partner Publishing Bonnie Ponce describes her experiences making the change from a self-publishing society to partner publishing with a corporate publishing company.
2019 ISMTE Award Winners and Interviews
October 2019 The winners of the 2019 ISMTE Award for Achievement or Innovation, Early Career Award, Ira Salkin Scholarship, and the Poster Awards.
Editorial and Production: Two Sides of the Same Coin by Michael Casp, Production Services Coordinator, Director of Business Development, J&J Editorial Editorial and Production offices may have different priorities, but through good communication and respect they can work together seamlessly.
by Christy Collins, PhD, Open Access Portfolio Manager, Humanities & Social Sciences, Routledge/Taylor & Francis In her winning essay for the 2019 ISMTE Ira Salkin Scholarship, Christy Collins discusses practical steps for creating proactive ethics policies.
ISMTE Past President Reflections by Glenn Collin ISMTE past president, Glenn Collins, looks back on his experiences serving as ISMTE’s president from 2012–2013.
Keeping Your Editorial Office Ethically Sound by Franca Bianchini, Managing Editor, International Journal of Cancer; Phaedra Cress, Executive Editor, Aesthetic Surgery Journal; and Deborah Bowman, MFA, ELS, Senior Managing Editor of Clinical Publications, American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy June 2019 Members of the ISMTE Ethics Committee highlight some key considerations when managing ethical issues.
Sci-Hub: More Trouble Than It's Worth?
by Phill Jones, PhD Research and Technology Consultant Phill Jones discusses a debate on the relative good and harm done by the most talked about disruption in our industry.
Plan S and the Impact on Journal Editors
by Pippa Smart, Publishing Consultant and President, EASE Pippa Smart provides a primer on what you need to know about Plan S.
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Sinister Threat of Predatory Publishing Practices by Simon Linacre, Director of International Marketing and Development, Cabells Simone Linacre discusses the scale and global impact of predatory publishers.
Charting the Dimensions of Preprint Policies by Samantha Hindle, PhD, Content Lead, bioRxiv, Co-Founder, PREreview; Naomi Penfold, PhD, Associate Director, ASAPbio; and Jessica Polka, PhD, Executive Director, ASAPbio
March 2019 The authors outline the motivation behind TRANSPOSE, a grassroots initiative to create a database of journal policies on peer review and preprinting.
by Monica Leigh, Senior Managing Editor, KWF Editorial
March 2019 A refresher on figure handling, focusing on tips for getting high-quality images for your publication.
Is Your Team Psychologically Safe?
By Erin C. Landis, Vice President of Publications, American Gastroenterological Association February 2019 Erin Landis discusses the concept of—and science behind—psychological safety in the workplace, as well as concrete steps you can take to provide a safe environment for your team.
By Sven Fund, Managing Director, Knowledge Unlatched and fullstopp
December 2018 Open access is well into its second decade and still developing at a fast pace. Sven Fund highlights some new developments.
Swimming Against the Tide: The Ethical Way Forward of Dealing with Predatory Journals By Sibabalwe Oscar Masinyana, Managing Editor, Taylor & Francis Africa
September 2018
The 2018 Ira Salkin Scholarship winner illuminates the ethical way forward when it comes to dealing with questionable open access journals. By Kent R. Anderson, CEO, RedLink
August 2018
Kent Anderson makes a case for the subscription model in a fragmented information ecosystem. By Deborah Bowman, MFA, ELS
June 2018 By Alison McGonagle-O’Connell
May 2018
Alison O'Connell explains how readers can support the Workplace Equity Initiative. By Grace E. Mosley, MD/PhD candidate
May 2018
Grace Mosley describes how implicit bias and privilege heavily influence both who applies to graduate school, and who gets accepted. By Steve Dudley
March 2018
The Chief Operations Officer at the British Ornithologists’ Union looks at how a learned society promotes the use of social media within its own sector, how social media contributes to the Altmetric Attention Score (AAS) of their research articles, which platforms are significant contributors, and how the AAS is linked to increased citations within ornithology. By Alethea Gerding
February 2018
The second-place winner of the ISMTE North American poster competition describes her analysis of a managing editor’s inbox. By Jason Roberts
December 2017 / January 2018
The Centre for Journalology in Ottawa has performed a very large, systematic study of the predatory journal phenomenon. Jason Roberts summarizes the results from one of the two papers that represent the culmination of several years of work. by Franca Bianchini and Sherryl Sundell
December 2017 / January 2018 - Issue 11
Franca Bianchini and Sherryl Sundell share their experiences with checking image integrity at their journal. By Phaedra Cress, Phill Jones, and Mark Johnston
November 2017 - Volume 10 - Issue 10
Project Cupcake is a new initiative that will provide frameworks for robust qualitative and quantitative journal-level indicators that illustrate how well publishers serve authors and the scientific community. by Jonathan P. Tennant, PhD
September 2017 - Volume 10 - Issue 8
Does transparency help or harm the peer review process? Jonathan Tennant of ScienceOpen weighs in. by Sun Huh
August 2017 - Volume 10 - Issue 7
Article production in Asian countries has paralleled the rapid Asian economic development. However, many journals from Asian countries find it challenging to maintain international publishing standards. Sun Huh describes how the Council of Asian Science Editors is helping. by Meaghan Kelly
May 2017 - Volume 10 - Issue 4
What really brings scientists together? Is the March for Science enough to change the minds of lawmakers? Meaghan Kelly explores the effect of the current political climate on science and scholarly publishing. by Anne Brenner
April 2017 - Volume 10 - Issue 3
Today, social media usage isn’t really a choice. It’s a must. Anne Brenner explains how to establish and maintain your journal’s presence. by Jason Roberts, PhD
March 2017 - Volume 10 - Issue 2
Beall’s List is gone. Jason Roberts explores what this means, and what should come next.
by Meredith Morovati
December 2016 / January 2017 Volume 9 - Issue 11
Alongside the Open Access movement is a move toward open data. Meredith Morovati writes about Dryad, an open data repository, and how journals might create policies surrounding data access and sharing. by Adam Etkin and Ivan Oransky, MD
December 2016 / January 2017 Volume 9 - Issue 11
Adam Etkin and Ivan Oransky explore retractions made due to publisher error and call for a better way to distinguish them. by Carolyn Sperry
November 2016 - Volume 5 - Issue 10
Carolyn Sperry interviews Amanda Capes-Davis, chair of the International Cell Line Authentication Committee (ICLAC), about contaminated cell lines and what Managing Editors can do to make sure their authors are not submitting research based on corrupted cell lines. Amanda explains that awareness is key and provides several resources for cell line information. Increasingly, journals are adding cell line requirements to their author guidelines and this should be considered best practice. by Cath Cotton
October 2016 - Volume 5, Issue 9
Did you participate in Peer Review Week 2016? This second annual event featured webinars, social media activity, and provided many resources on peer review, mostly focusing on the topic of reviewer recognition. In her article, Cath Cotton expands on this year’s events and discusses the importance of making peer review count. by David Mellor
September 2016 - Volume 5, Issue 8
Dr. David Mellor of The Center for Open Science discusses the key steps to increasing reproducibility and transparency in scientific publishing. Journal editors are a critical component of this complex undertaking, as the entire academic ecosystem must begin to reward better practices. by Tom Lang and Doug Altman
August 2016 - Volume 5, Issue 7
Tom Lang and Doug Altman, developed a set of guidelines for reporting statistical methods. The SAMPL guidelines can be added to Author Instructions and serve as a reference for authors and editors alike. by Ira Salkin July 2016 - Volume 5, Issue 6
In this article, Ira Salkin discusses various examples of how researchers are able to manipulate collected data in order to support the significance of their results. by Danielle Padula
June 2016 - Volume 9, Issue 5
Access to articles online is a must-have for today's journals. Check out these tips for establishing your journal's online presence. by Alice Ellingham, Tracy Ronan, Rosie Walker, and Andrew Walker
Sometimes we find ways to pull order from chaos. EthicsGen is a new online tool that helps authors develop complete ethics statements for journal submissions. This helps authors standardize their disclosures and simplifies the process. by Alicia Byrne
May 2016 - Volume 9, Issue 4
As Alicia Byrne writes, there can be a lot of trial and error when trying something new. She details her experience with launching a journal club podcast, touching on logistics, timelines, and lessons learned.
by Stuart Taylor April 2016 - Volume 9, Issue 3
Many online editorial systems include an option for authors to register for and/or supply an ORCID iD. However, some publishers, such as the Royal Society in the United Kingdom, are now requiring
submitting authors to provide their ORCID iDs. Read Stuart Taylor’s article to learn more about why they are encouraging widespread ORCID adoption and how this unique identifier is being
integrated into more and more research systems. by Seth James by Duncan Nicholas
February 2016 - Volume 9, Issue 1
In an effort to provide proactive service, Duncan Nicholas writes about setting up customized and automated template letters that can be triggered to send emails after certain tasks are completed. Automating these emails reduces time spent manually checking the system while proactively informing authors or reviewers about the status of their manuscript. by Yan Shuai
December 2015 / January 2016 - Volume 8, Issue 12
In this article, Yan Shaui, Director of Journal Publishing at Tsinghua University Press, discusses the evolving STM publishing environment in China. by Ashley Smith, PhD
November 2015 - Volume 8, Issue 11
In “How Do You Figure?” Ashley Smith discusses the common areas of author confusion regarding figure guidelines and offers suggestions on how to simplify and clarify journal guidelines. by Jennifer Deyton
October 2015 - Volume 8, Issue 10
Jennifer Deyton writes about the changes and growth J&J Editorial has experienced over the past several years and describes the challenges and benefits of finding a balance between working and managing remotely and being able to collaborate in a shared brick-and-mortar office space. by Paige Wooden
September 2015 - Volume 8, Issue 9
For many of us, a key element of our day-to-day work involves responding to and answering questions from our editors, authors, and reviewers. It can be repetitive and sometimes confusing to constantly send out information and track responses. The Publications Department at the American Geophysical Union came up with and implemented a solution—the AGU’s Editor Portal—as a way to increase communication among editors and to serve as a hub for journal-related information.
by Deborah E. Bowman, MFA, ELS; Prof MVDr. Eva Baranyiova, CSc; Kristen Overstreet, BA; and
Sherryl Sundell, BA August 2015 - Volume 8, Issue 8
Written by a group of ISMTE and EASE leaders, this article provides a history of the Impact Factor, explains how IF’s are awarded, and details ways in which your journal’s IF can be improved. This original article on the Impact Factor serves as an excellent resource for all Editorial Office staff. by Rosemary Shipton July 2015 - Volume 8, Issue 7
One of the missions of the ISMTE is to enhance the professional roles of those who manage peer review and Editorial Offices for academic and scholarly journals. As we all know, the definition of our roles and the responsibilities we take on are quite varied from journal to journal. Rosemary Shipton explores this topic and asks the question—Should editors be able to write too?
by Liz Bury
June 2015 - Volume 8, Issue 6 In this month’s Editor’s Choice, “Nip and Tuck: Redesigning a Medical Journal’s Blog,” Liz Bury shares her experience with redesigning her journal’s blog. Updates included choosing a new theme, changing the blog’s name, and updating the blog’s logo. by Elizabeth R. Lorbeer
June 2015 - Volume 8, Issue 6 Libraries have historically been the place to go (and the librarian the go-to person) for researching and discovering content. But how is the library’s role changing now that everyone from my grandma to my eight-year-old cousin has an iPad at his/her fingertips? In her article, “The Many Paths to Content Discovery: A Librarian's Perspective,” Elizabeth Lorbeer, Library Director at Western Michigan University, discusses how librarians have embraced alternative discovery services, such as third-party apps, and details the challenges they face distributing content to new types of users. by Charles Watkinson
May 2015 - Volume 8, Issue 5
Charles Watkinson, Associate University Librarian for Publishing at the University of Michigan, discusses the changing role of academic librarians as partners in the research process. by Luk Cox, PhD
April 2015 - Volume 8, Issue 4
Have you heard about one of the newest initiatives in scientific publishing—graphical abstracts? Luk Cox discusses how graphical abstracts provide added value to an authors’ research in his article “Are Graphical Abstracts Changing the Way We Publish?” by Chloe Tuck
March 2015 - Volume 8, Issue 3
For many researchers, rejection is part of the game in scholarly publishing. Chloe Tuck from Technica Editorial explores the appeals process and provides recommendations on effective rebuttal letters and what to avoid when handling an appeal. by Deborah E. Bowman
February 2015 - Volume 8, Issue 2
Have you thought of pursuing a certificate in editing? Deborah Bowman shares how she applied for, completed, and passed the BELS exam and provides some reasons you might consider doing the same. by Richard Wynne and Alison O'Connell
January 2015 - Volume 8, Issue 1 Richard Wynne and Alison O’Connell from Aries Systems discuss emerging data standards in scholarly publishing, such as single sign-on, manuscript transfer services, and Open Access payment processing, and how they are being used to solve inefficiencies in data transfer.
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