Aries Systems, a supplier of online submission and peer review workflow solutions for scholarly publishers, has announced an agreement with the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) to integrate its checkCIF system with Editorial Manager.
Aries’ principal offering, Editorial Manager, is used by more than 6,000 scholarly journals including many published in the fields of chemistry and materials science. For consideration by these journals, authors are often required to submit their crystallographic data files to the IUCr's checkCIF system for validation. The Crystallographic Information File (CIF) is a standard text file format for representing crystallographic information promulgated by the IUCr. Managing this additional step manually can be inconvenient for authors and journal operations.
Under the new agreement, CIF files will be automatically checked as a by-product of manuscript submission with the test results conveniently displayed to authors, reviewers and editors during journal submission and peer review workflows.
checkCIF integration will be released as part of Editorial Manager version 13.0 and will be in the hands of users in 2016.
