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Guest Post — Enabling Trustable, Transparent, and Efficient Submission and Review in an Era of Digital Transformation

Digital transformation in submission and peer review offers improvements for publications and a better experience for researchers and journal staff.

  • By Hong Zhou, Sylvia Izzo Hunter
  • Jan 31, 2023
  • 4 Comments

MECA – A New Manuscript Exchange initiative

A new initiative has been launched to define best practices for simplifying transfer of submitted manuscripts across publishers and systems.

  • By Charlie Rapple
  • Aug 17, 2017
  • 11 Comments

Copyright Transfer As a Click-through – It’s So Easy to Sign Away Your Rights

Click-through agreements are efficient for publishers and software companies to offer, but is it right for this efficiency to cloud the rights picture? Can’t we create systems that are slightly more subtle and customized?

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Mar 6, 2013
  • 11 Comments

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