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Volume 9, Issue 3 — April 2016  

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A Global Connection
by Meghan McDevitt 

Article title: "A Global Connection"
Author: Meghan McDevitt
Publication date: April 1, 2016
Volume 9, Issue 3, page 1 

ASN’s Interactive Peer-Review Checklist: Regulating the
Peer-Review Process
by Sarah McCormack and Kimberly Rhodes

Article title: "ASN’s Interactive Peer-Review Checklist: Regulating the Peer-Review Process"
Authors: Sarah McCormack and Kimberly Rhodes
Publication date:  April 1, 2016
Volume 9, Issue 3, page 3
Article DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18243/eon/2016.9.3.1

Sarah McCormack and Kimberly Rhodes, whose poster won first place last year, discuss the American Society for Nutrition’s interactive peer-review checklist and provide some tips for how you can create a checklist of your own. 

ISMTE and the Chicago Collaborative
by Maggie Haworth     

Article title: "ISMTE and the Chicago Collaborative"
Author: Maggie Haworth
Publication date: April 1, 2016
Volume 9, Issue 3, page 6 

Since 2008, the Chicago Collaborative has brought together representatives from various STM publisher, editor, and librarian organizations in an effort to share, collaborate, and discuss issues of scholarly scientific communication. Read Maggie Haworth’s report to learn more about how the ISMTE brings a unique perspective to the Collaborative. 

 There Are Plenty of Fish in the Publishing Sea
by Anne Brenner

Article title: "There Are Plenty of Fish in the Publishing Sea"
Author: Anne Brenner
Publication date: April 1, 2016
Volume 9, Issue 3, page 8
Article DOI:  http://dx.doi.org/10.18243/eon/2016.9.3.2 

Have you ever considered the parallels between dating and publishing? Anne Brenner explores the commonalities between these seemingly unrelated processes and provides some advice that is applicable in both situations. 

 Reducing the Workload
by Simone Larche

Article title: “Reducing the Workload"
Author: Simone Larche
Publication date: April 1, 2016
Volume 9, Issue 3, page 10
Article DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18243/eon/2016.9.3.3 

In this month’s Taming Technology article, Simone Larche provides some tips for working with your online editorial system to reduce your workload. Creating email templates and automating letters help save you time—and provide that extra level of customer service to keep your editors, reviewers, and authors happy.

 Challenges for Launching a New Journal
by Sami Al Hajjar

Article title: "Challenges for Launching a New Journal"
Author: Sami Al Hajjar
Publication date: April 1, 2016
Volume 9, Issue 3, page 13
Article DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18243/eon/2016.9.3.4

Dr. Sami Al Hajjar shares his experience with the creation and launch of a new Open Access journal. He touches on the early exploratory process, how to establish a reviewer database, and the challenges faced in encouraging article submissions. 

     Cultivating ORCID
by Stuart Taylor

Article title: "Cultivating ORCID"
Author: Stuart Taylor
Publication date: April 1, 2016
Volume 9, Issue 3, page 15
Article DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18243/eon/2016.9.3.5

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.