Online submission system provider Aries Systems Corporation, US, has announced an agreement with EMH Swiss Medical Publisher Ltd. (Schweizerische Ärzteverlag AG). Under the deal, Aries' Editorial Manager online peer-review system will be deployed to journals published by EMH.
The project will begin with deployment of Editorial Manager to two of the publisher's leading journals - Swiss Medical Weekly (SMW) and Kardiovaskulare Medizin. First published in 1871 and indexed in Medline, the Swiss Medical Weekly has recently transitioned to English only Open Access format. The deployment of Editorial Manager is expected to further strengthen the rigorous statistical and peer review already undertaken by the journal.
The Editorial Manager online submission system is used by more than 2,900 scholarly journals and processes tens of thousand of manuscripts per month. Earlier in January this year, Editorial Manager was selected by the journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), published by Cambridge University Press, to successfully transition editorial workflow to the web.
Schweizerische Ärzteverlag EMH (www.emh.ch) is a joint venture of the Swiss Medical Association FMH and the Basel based Schwabe AG. With nine renowned medical journals, a comprehensive online offering as well as its book program, the publisher covers the wide spectrum of topics relevant to medical discussion and constitutes an important player in Swiss health care. All the publisher's journals are the official organs of the respective associations.
