Managing manuscripts

ScholarOne has introduced Manuscript Central Version 3.4, which includes a Web services interface, allowing two-way communication between the Manuscript Central system and customers' production systems.

By facilitating the exchange of manuscript and user information between the journal's production system and the Manuscript Central site, ScholarOne says, manuscript status can be securely transferred from the production system to the Manuscript Central site, where it can be viewed by editorial office staff and authors.

Manuscript Central Web sites will continue to provide the ability to export author-supplied original and supplementary files, to review and to ready proofs for the Web and to send manuscript metadata via e-mail or FTP to the journal-specified recipient or FTP site. Manuscript metadata may be exported as XML, mapped to industry-standard document type definitions (DTD), HTML or in a comma-separated value (CSV) file. All exports can be sent automatically based on batch-mode settings or on a manuscript-by-manuscript basis.