NeoScriber: Journal Management System

NeoScriber: What does it mean?

NeoScriber (means: New Writer) is one of the main products of Kowsarmedical as a journal management system.

History:

NeoScriber provides journals a high level of flexibility to configure workflows. Designed to integrate easily with online publishing services, NeoScriber lowers administrative costs and reduces time from submission to publication. Since 2010, NeoScriber has provided small and medium journals a variety of options for getting online. Together this community has evolved to increase productivity and improve the work flow in the peer review process. What makes NeoScriber unique is our hands-on, personalized service allowing you to set your own parameters on what works for your organization. We do all we can to make your editorial team happy.

Main Features:

NeoScriber provides the technology infrastructure and platform that allows publishers to pick and choose exactly the site design, branding, feature set, business models, and content support they want for their publications. All content is hosted on Kowsar servers, using the NeoScriber Express production system.

Increase efficiency of publishing staff
Offer reviewers fast and easy access
Give Editors hands-on control
Streamline Author submissions

Sub-Systems of NeoScriber:

This portal consists of different facilities and tools which make the management of an academic journal as much as easy and simple. NeoScriber, as one of the first journal management system, consist of 3 major portals:

Article Submission System
Peer Review System
Advanced and Integrated Publishing System

Features of NeoScriber

The main features of NeoScriber are as below:

Flexible and Pre-planned Online Submission based on Article Types
Manuscript and Users Management System
Advanced Search and Report Tools
MegaPublish Area for simultaneous HTML and PDf full text publishing and editing using XML in one place
NeoSuggestion: A unique portal for recycling all articles
NeoConnect: A unique tool for searching and inviting Reviewers and Editorial Board based on researchers' profiles indexed in ISI, Medline and Scopus
DOI enabled publications with Crossmark Linking
Similarity checking powered by iThenticate
Automated XML outputs based on PMC XML DTD version 3.0, Crossref XML, Portico XML, ISC XML, HBI XML, RSS output, and many other libraries
Connected facilities for Social Media for sharing articles in Twitter, Facebook, Mendeley, ...
Google Scholar meta Tags and sitemap enabled for all Articles
Open Access Enabled in all Articles
Fully Integrated Peer Review System (Double or Single Blind)
Open Peer Review Infrastructure: Signed or Anonymous reviewers
Publons Enabled Journals
ORCID Enabled System
Altmetrics Enabled System
Online Chat for Users
Support Ticketing System

Peer Review Portal in NeoScriber

Features of the NeoScriber Peer-Review System:

Paperless and green office a journal with all functions of an editorial office availbale for Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editors, Reviewers and Authors
Automated and manual email and SMS notifications and reminders
Single or Double-blind peer review system
Post-Publication peer review system
Customize workflow for all types of relationship between editors and reviewers
NeoConnect: Search and invite new editorial board and reviewers from researchers' profile in ISI, Medline and Scopus
Manage publishing of manuscript from early submission to end of proof publishing
Service cloud with unlimited disk space for a journal

Features of Publish Site of Journal in NeoScriber

Full Text HTML Publishing with hyperlinks to figures, tables and references
References hyperlinked and validated with DOI and PMC
Citedby counter with Scopus, Scholar and Crossref
Export citations to Endnote, Bibtex
Get Permission from Copyright (CC BY NC 4)
Crossmark Enabeled for Related articles
Link to Related Articles in Scholar and PubMed
Show Authors profile in Scholar, PMC
Create Citation Alert per article
Share Articles in Scoial Media
Post Publication Comments

Post publication Services:

Automated Production of all outputs required for bibliographic sources like ISI, Medline, DOAJ, ISC Portico and etc.
In Press Publishing System for better visibility and higher citations
Post Publication Peer Review Portal for all Articles

What's New in each version of NeoScriber?

What's new in version 3.46 (09-03-2020):

Improvement in SEO tags of Scholar
Improvement in UX of "Manuscript information", "Screening Log"
Add limitation for "Incomplete Submissions" of authors
Add "Keyword Cloud" to show the most used keywords in the journal
Some Improvements in NeoConnect
Add a feature to search articles by keyword
Integration of journals publish domains

What's new in version 3.44 (08-01-2020):

"Main Corresponding Author" role is removed from the system since it was confusing for authors
Corresponding authors are able to reuse specific files of previous revisions in the new revision
The archive page has been changed and it is listed according to volumes not year of publication
Some major improvements in SEO
Some improvements in mobile view
Some other minor and major bug fixes and improvements

Version 3.43, 15-12-2019:

Improvement of searching in publish site results
NeoSuggest: A service that allows rejected manuscripts to be transferred to another Kowsar journal
Improvements in OPR (Open Peer Review)
Improvements in SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
Some bugs are fixed

Version 3.42, 01-12-2019:

NeoConnect: EIC an AE are able to add reviewers from Pubmed database
EIC an AE are able to add reviewers from all our journals
Search in publish sites can be included all articles of our journals
Fixed a bug that authors were not able to download similarity files
Some new google scholar meta tags added in article pages
Some modifications for SEO