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DescriptionAuthors are frustrated with the process of uploading data and files multiple times during the peer review process. With cascading workflows, domain-specific consortiums, and preprint servers pushing papers from repositories to journal systems, there is a real need to streamline the manuscript submission process. In 2017 a group of manuscript-management suppliers (Aries Systems, Clarivate, eJournalPress, and HighWire) developed a common approach to manuscript data and file exchange, called Manuscript Exchange Common Approach (MECA). These guidelines can be used in the scholarly publishing ecosystem to communicate between organizations. In 2018, this same group submitted a proposal to the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and NISO set up a working group whose members include American Chemical Society, American Physical Society, Cold Spring Harbor, eLife, IEEE, Green Fifteen, Jisc, Journal of Clinical Investigation, the National Library of Medicine, Springer Nature, Taylor and Francis, plus the original organizations. The goal is to finalize a “best practice for manuscript and data exchange”. Open science and open peer review will benefit greatly from the MECA initiative as we seek to standardize communications protocols so that research can flow more quickly and more freely.
- Tony Alves, Aries Systems, Director of Product Management
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