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Getting Started in the Editorial Office
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Resources covering editorial office workflows and tasks, training new editors and setting up an editorial office.
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| Improving your Editorial Office |
In a busy editorial office, it can be difficult to take the time away from your inbox to record your policies and procedures. However, these documents are invaluable to reference when dealing with queries or when problems arise so it is worth making the time to prepare them. The resources will help with this preparation and many of the resources work together.
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Supporting Authors
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Advice and a template for creating clear instructions for authors, to save time spent answering queries and dealing with formatting problems in new submissions.
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| Supporting Reviewers |
Reviewers are a central part of the peer review process and volunteer their time and expertise to help the journal. It is therefore essential that reviewers have a good experience through the peer review process so that they will return to your journal and recommend it to their colleagues. This guide will help you improve your instructions for reviewers and editorial board members and also reward reviewers for their contributions.
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| Promoting your Journal
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How to use social media to promote your journal.
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Reporting
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Best practice guidelines for creating editorial office reports, with specific instructions for different submission systems.
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Webinars
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Archived ISMTE webinars. Topics include engaging and mentoring reviewers, integrating social media, peer review with new technology, how to start a journal club, and more!
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| Plan S: Point Counterpoint |
At the ISMTE 2019 North American Meeting, Rick Anderson, Associate Dean for Collections & Scholarly Communication at the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah and Micah Vandegrift, Open Knowledge Librarian at North Carolina
State University Libraries, discussed their different opinions regarding some of the finer points of Plan S.
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| Standards for Professional Development |
Intended to help determine what editorial office professionals already know and how to improve skills and knowledge to further develop competencies. They do not include every task for which an editorial office professional may be responsible, but they cover key areas.
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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Editorial Boards and Diversity Case Study illuminating efforts to promote research on Native American nutrition and the importance of partnership/collaboration. Click here to see the full report.
Click here to see ISMTE's DEI Case Study Series.
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| Publications |
Editorial Office News (EON) is ISMTE's monthly publication providing informative articles written by ISMTE members related to working in an Editorial Office.
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