Manuscript Central
Session Abstracts
Plenary Session: Impact Factors
Marie McVeigh, Sr. Mgr JCR & Bibliographic Policy
Thomson Scientific
Track/Session: All
When: 8:30 – 9:30, May 7th
The recognized authority for evaluating journals, Journal Citation Reports present quantifiable data that provides a systematic, objective way to evaluate the world's leading journals, and their impact and influence in the global research community. Marie will give more insight into the construction and content of the Journal Citation Reports data, and why they should matter to you.
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Impact Factor Case Study
Commercial Publishers TBD
Track: All
When: 9:30 – 10:00, May 7th
TBD
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Future Product Roadmap
Tiffany Coker, Director, Product Management
ScholarOne, Inc.
Track: All
Time: 10:30 – 11:30, May 7th
ScholarOne is committed to continual improvement of Manuscript Central, and has created it as a product that consistently benefits from user suggestions and feedback. This session will provide a sneak preview of things to come in Manuscript Central, including features to be included in upcoming releases and the methodology behind ScholarOne’s release planning. If you’d like to submit enhancement requests or download a feedback form prior to the conference, download an Enhancement Request form here.
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Focus on Performance Improvements
Mary Grove, VP, Sales & Marketing
ScholarOne, Inc.
Track: All
Time: 11:30 – 12:00, May 7th
ScholarOne is focused on delivering the highest quality products and services. Learn more about our plans and timelines to enhance both your productivity and the application performance.
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Manuscript Management Toolset: Integration with Thomson EndNote® and Web of Science®
Tiffany Coker, Director, Product Management
ScholarOne, Inc.
Jason Rollins, Director, Product Development, ResearchSoft
Track: All
Time: 1:00 – 2:00, May 7th
Abstract: This session will focus on the benefits users can reap as a result of Manuscript Central’s exclusive integration with Thomson EndNote® and Web of Science® products.
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Professional Services Update
Track: All
Keith Collier, VP, Professional Services
ScholarOne, Inc.
Track: All
Time: 2:00 – 2:30
Our service teams are growing to meet the needs of our clients and users. This session will provide an update on the ScholarOne service groups, including our current challenges, and changes we are making to the areas of support, training, and implementation. We will also provide an update on existing service offerings, including the MC University Certification Program.
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Benefits of Thomson Publisher Services
George Kowal, Manager, Custom Sales
Thomson Scientific
Track: All
Time: 3:00 – 3:30
Scholarly publishing is incredibly challenging in this day and age, given the vast collection of commercial and freely available electronic content that is internationally accessible. Thomson Scientific services, ISI Web of Knowledge and Scientific Direct, provide you with the tools necessary to support development and maintenance of successful editorial and marketing strategies. This session will introduce the Content and Analysis capabilities within the ISI Web of Knowledge database, and the benefits of these resources, particularly in support of editorial and marketing activities as applied to scholarly publishing. Gain intelligence in support of your publishing endeavors: Insight into Journals, Authors, Broad Disciplines, and Specialized Areas of Research…providing answers to key questions.
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Editor/Admin Break—Out: Manuscript Submission Templates
Noah Merritt, Product Manager
ScholarOne, Inc.
Jason Rollins, Director, Product Development, ResearchSoft
Track: Administrators, Editors
Time: 3:30 – 4:00, May 7th
Do you provide templates for your authors to use? Is your publication one of hundreds that take advantage of template distribution within EndNote? Recent collaborative efforts between Manuscript Central and Thomson ResearchSoft have revealed the benefits and challenges of template use in the publishing process. In this session we will examine how Microsoft Word templates are best used as well as how to avoid common pitfalls. Participants will also learn how to distribute their templates via Manuscript Central, EndNote and other channels.
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Publisher Break-out: Publisher Reports
Suzanne Hopkins, Product Manager
ScholarOne, Inc.
Track: Publishers
Time: 3:30 – 4:00, May 7th
This session will focus on Publisher Reporting features included in the MCv3.6 release. The Standard Submission Summary report and a Report Center, available through the Publisher Report portal, will be highlighted. Additionally we will review the new configuration tool used to add publisher-specific data fields for use in creating a custom publisher submission report. Finally we will discuss prioritization of upcoming publisher reports and feature suggestions to expand publisher reporting in the future.
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Admin/Editor Break-Out: Pivot Table Demonstration
Tom McClung, Reports Specialist
ScholarOne, Inc.
Track: Publishers
Time: 4:00 – 4:30, May 7th
Editorial offices have varying reporting needs. Through the data export capability in Manuscript Central, Journal Administrators can import large sets of data to Excel. With Excel’s built-in pivot table feature, you can look at your journal data in a completely new way. A pivot table is a powerful data summarization tool that can automatically sort, count, and total data stored in a spreadsheet and create a second table displaying the summarized data. Pivot tables are also useful to quickly create crosstabs. The user sets up and changes the summary's structure by dragging-and-dropping fields graphically. This "rotation" or pivoting of the summary table gives the concept its name. This session will provide an overview of pivot tables and how they can be used with data from Manuscript Central.
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Publisher Marketing
Nikki Haffey, Marketing Communications Manager
ScholarOne, Inc.
Track: Publishers
Time: 4:00 – 4:30
This session is designed to equip our publisher/reseller clients to communicate and sell the benefits of Manuscript Central to their prospective journals and societies. We’ll present our latest marketing materials and review helpful Manuscript Central talking points, including the benefits of the ScholarOne/Thomson marketing team.
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Admin/Editor Break-out: Getting the Most Out of Your Email Templates
Gwen Baker, MC Client Education Manager
ScholarOne, Inc.
Track: Publishers
Time: 4:30 – 5:00, May 7th
The robust email template options in Manuscript Central can be overwhelming to some users. This presentation will cover several tips for creating emails to take advantage of the communications tools within Manuscript Central. We will also cover some of the best practices presented in our email templates and the latest on using password/security related tags in your emails.
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Publisher Break-Out: Abstract Central Demonstration
Josh Dahl, Manager of Meeting Services
(Abstract Central)
ScholarOne, Inc.
Track: Publishers
Time: 4:30 – 5:00, May 7th
Abstract Central® is an innovative, web-based, database-driven application designed for abstract submission, peer review, program creation, publishing output and administrative meetings workflow. With a focus in science, technology and medical societies and associations, Abstract Central streamlines the abstract management process and can support various other elements of meeting planning, including course submissions, speaker management, sessioning, and late breaking submissions. You’ll view an overview demo of the product and learn what benefit it may also have to your journal or publication.
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Publisher and ScholarOne Roundtables
Commercial Publishers
ScholarOne
Track: All
Time: 5:00 – 5:30, May 7th
This session is designed to provide organized communication between administrators/editors and their respective publishers and ScholarOne contacts. Be prepared with questions for your contacts, or simply come to meet and greet.
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Publication & Client Awards Dinner
This year will be the start of a new tradition at our Spring Users Conference. We will be recognizing publications, societies, and publishers who set themselves apart by their outstanding performance in journal peer review management and system implementations.
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User Conference Spring 2007 Abstracts
Tuesday, May 8th
Industry Trends
Jim Pringle, VP, Product Development
Thomson Scientific
Track: All
Time: 8:00 – 9:00, May 8th
TBD
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Ensuring Successful Email Delivery
Suzanne Hopkins, Product Manager
ScholarOne, Inc.
Track: All
Time: 9:00 – 9:30, May 8th
This session will review standard e-mail protocol as it relates to Manuscript Central. Additionally we will review common terminology including “spoofing” and “gray listing” as well as tips to avoid false filtering of legitimate e-mail. We will wrap up with a discussion of future product improvements in this area.
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Managing Peer Review in the 21st Century: the challenges, problems and opportunities
Irene Hames, Managing Editor, The Plant Journal
Track: All
Time: 9:30 – 10:30, May 8th
Editors and editorial offices face many challenges in today’s climate of increasing pressures, workloads and expectations. Submissions are increasing dramatically. In some disciplines, manuscripts are also incorporating new elements; the peer-review process is becoming more complex and this is creating new problems. What are these and how should they be handled? Misconduct in research and publication is becoming more common and many journals are coming across cases, perhaps not knowing how to deal with them. How can high standards of peer review be maintained in these testing times and what can be done to ensure that challenges become opportunities, not problems?
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Editor/Admin Break-out: QA Best Practice Roundtable
Track: Editors/Admins
Time: 11:00 – 12:00, May 8th
TBD
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Publisher Break-out: Roll-out Panel
Track: All
Time: 11:00 – 12:00, May 8th
TBD
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Editor/Admin Break-out: Manuscript Central Tips & Tricks
Tiffany Coker, Director, Product Management
ScholarOne, Inc.
Track: Administrators/Editors
Time: 1:00 – 2:30, May 8th
The difference between a typical user and a “power user” of any system is knowing the tips and tricks of the system. This session aims to turn the typical Editor or Administrator into a Manuscript Central “power user.” We have collected a list of tips and tricks that will not only save you time, but will help you get the most out of Manuscript Central. This session is designed to be interactive and will conclude with allotted time for users to ask detailed questions. If you’d like to submit your questions prior to the conference, download a Knowledge Exchange form now and submit to paige.angle@scholarone.com by April 27th.
Introduction to the International Society of Managing and Technical Editors
Jason Roberts, Managing Editor, Headache Journal
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Publisher Break-out: Integration Possibilities
Noah Merritt, Product Manager
ScholarOne, Inc.
Track: Publishers
Time: 1:00 – 2:30, May 8th
Does your editorial office or membership society use multiple electronic systems in your publishing workflow? Do you maintain membership databases? Do you find yourself manually entering article metadata into your production system? A review of recent projects with the American Chemical Society and Blackwell Publishing will be used to highlight the benefits and challenges of integration. A survey of group integration needs and open discussion will follow.