Resubmitting your study to a new journal could become easier

Rejected manuscripts are a fact of life in science, but a new initiative might take some of the sting out of the process.

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By Chris Woolston

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO), a Baltimore, Maryland-based non-profit that promotes standardization in publishing, has embraced a plan to make it easier for journals to share rejected manuscripts and manuscript reviews without forcing authors to go through another arduous submission process. Continue reading

A day in the life of a Scientific Reports manuscript assistant

William Coleman helps shed some light on the publishing business for Scientific Reports and Naturejobs.

Scientific Reports is a rapidly growing online open access journal that publishes research from all areas of the natural and clinical sciences. As one of over twenty manuscript assistants at the journal, one of my main tasks is to quality check author submissions in our online manuscript tracking system before they’re sent to our editorial board and, potentially, to peer review.

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William Coleman

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