Academic publisher Maney Publishing, UK, has announced that it will be deploying the Editorial Manager (EM) peer review system to some 40 humanities and social science (HSS) publications in the near future. EM is currently available for Maney's entire list of STM journals and interest in using online submission and refereeing has been growing amongst HSS journals for some years.
This is seen to be a major development for a system first employed for scientific journals and represents an imaginative partnership between Aries and Maney that will give Maney's HSS journals a strong competitive edge. Humanities journals increasingly expect to use the same technology as STM titles.
Maney recently signed new publishing agreements with organisations such as the European Archaeological Association and the International Institute for Conservation, which are now successfully using Editorial Manager for their journals. The company has a growing number of other humanities journals already using the system and others, such as Environmental Archaeology, Ambix, and Palestine Exploration Quarterly, for which EM will be installed by 2013.
By deploying this system for its journals Maney seeks to provide enhanced services to authors, stimulate copy flow, and significantly reduce editorial administration for its editors, while streamlining the process for referees.
