Testimonials

"I appreciate the eEditorial Discovery System for its simplicity both on our side and on the researcher’s side. It provides us a useful internal resource where we can collect, store, and share information during proposal review so that we may gain a comprehensive understanding of the submitted proposal, internal and external overlap, the editor’s past with us, and more in one webpage."

-Mikaela Felty, Assistant Acquisitions Editor, IGI Global

"The vision was, and will continue to be, to provide the industry with a complete publishing solution that addresses publisher and contributor needs simultaneously. By focusing on shortcomings of competing systems we used innovative design and cutting-edge technology to deliver a robust solution with maximum flexibility. With emphasis on publisher customization, complete REST API library, and user experience this system can handle one or all the needs of any publisher."

-Justin North, Vice President of Technology, IGI Global

"Perhaps one of the greatest strengths of the system is its agility and awareness of the ever-evolving mandates of the industry – meaning that it is continuously looking to innovate and update to match best industry practices. This is integral during a time where systems left stagnant or set in old ways are fast becoming impractical."

-Melissa Wagner, Vice President of Editorial, IGI Global

"Using eEditorial Discovery provides a historical roadmap of every IGI Global book project, from proposal submission, project contracting, to project completion. The easy-to-use interface gives Editors a single location on their Project Dashboard to approve chapter proposals, track full chapters to include collecting copyright forms and author biographies, and assign chapters for peer review and revisions. No more searching emails from contributors for missing items."

-Jan Travers, Director of Intellectual Property & Contracts, IGI Global

"The e-Editorial Discovery Proofing system has saved us time and effort from the moment it was adopted."

-Mike Brehm, Managing Editor – Production, IGI Global

"I am very excited for the launch of the new multi-client system and the opportunities it presents in providing publisher and user portals that can better support publishers’ development teams and stakeholders to manage their publication projects."

-Alexis Miller, Journal Development Coordinator, IGI Global

"For IGI Global’s marketing team, eED acts as a hub for custom reporting and even provides functionality to store and share promotional collateral and inframtion with the masses. Simply put, adding eED into the marketing function has helped build efficiency and effectiveness into our day-to-day workflow."

-Nick Newcomer, Vice President of Sales & Marketing, IGI Global

Development Management Module

Content Submission, Tracking, Management, Peer Review, Review Board Management, Content Checks

The Development Management Module is the core of the publishing process, ensuring that projects are executed with the highest level of efficiency. This module ensures that content can be easily submitted by stakeholders, and then aids in a timely and high-quality peer review process (customizable by publisher) – facilitating all aspects of the peer review process, including reviewer appointments and review assignments for both books and journals, as well as critical progress reports (dashboards) that provide updates regarding reviewer activity, and the ability to send decisions to authors, and also ensures that all final materials including prefaces, forewords, tables of contents, final chapters, and any supporting documentation can be uploaded to a project with ease.

Development Management Module User Interface

Monitor projects through dashboards and Power BI reporting

Create projects and setup custom workflows

Manuscript documents and figure uploading

Assign peer reviewers, manage the peer review process, and make editorial decisions, and send communications

Applications Used to Execute Key Functions

Project Management

Custom Workflows & API Integrations

Custom Forms

Dashboards

Content Submission

Reviewers

Final Materials

iThenticate (3rd Party Tool)

Project Management

Users can check on the status of projects at any time. Publishers can create new projects and can adjust phases and other settings for the project at any time, even having the capability to “Lock” the project to prevent changes from being made to the project once it moves to the final stages. Editors can adjust their calls for content that are created and posted within the system in order to adequately recruit content for their projects. Editors can access all submissions to their projects, including all versions of the manuscript, signed agreements, peer reviews, and communication history for each paper manuscript. Book Authors are able to easily view their deadlines, peer reviews of their work, and submit all components for their authored book projects. Notifications are provided throughout the system on various pages prompting users to perform actions specific to their projects in process.

Custom Workflows & API Integrations

If the provided workflow is not conducive to a publisher’s needs then they can take advantage of custom workflows that can be adapted to suit their specific acquisitions workflow, whether that includes additional communication tracking, integrating sales reports for market analysis, integrating additional imprints or divisions of the publishing house, or a multitude of other options.

Custom Forms

If the provided proposal form templates are not conducive to a publisher’s needs then they can take advantage of the custom form application to create custom forms that can cater to a variety of publication project proposal types.

Dashboards

Upon login dashboards can be viewed to review status updates on project proposals under consideration. Dashboards can be customized to present critical status information that the publisher’s commissioning or acquisitions team needs to facilitate project approval.

Content Submission

If the provided forms are not conducive to a publisher’s needs then they can take advantage of the custom forms module which allows them to create custom forms throughout the entirety of the editorial management process.

Reviewers

Users can submit and manage their paper or full manuscript submissions, visual elements, which also includes various revision documents. Various “flags” can be created letting the users know whether or not their content is meeting the required specifications.

Final Materials

This application executes the peer review process. Editors can assign manuscripts out for review and communicate with reviewers through the system. Review boards can be managed through a special interface that also allows editors to look at reviewer dashboards, providing insight into the level of activity and quality of review that the reviewers are executing. Publishers are also able to compile different review and advisory boards for projects. The interface can be customized to suit any peer review workflow, open peer review, single-blind peer review, double-blind peer review, etc. Editors are able to easily make reviews available to the authors and send manuscript decisions.

iThenticate (3rd Party Tool)

All final materials/components can be uploaded and packaged through the system. Which also includes the numbering of manuscripts and the uploading of front matter such as a table of contents and a preface. All accompanying permissions, copyright forms, etc. are also able to be submitted and stored within the system.