Monday, November 07, 2005

Submit online to The Lancet

The Lancet
Submit online to The Lancet
Sabine Kleinert and Mark Harrington

From today, The Lancet has a dedicated online submission and peer-review website known as EES—a customised version of Editorial Manager, one of the main commercially available systems.

Authors can submit manuscripts online and track their progress through the editorial process. Reviewers will be invited through EES and can use the system to send editors their comments on the paper they have been invited to review. Although our intention is for most papers to be received by the journal online, authors without access to email or the internet will still be able to send a paper manuscript to the journal office in London.

For the time being, letters for publication in our Correspondence columns should still be sent by email to correspondence@lancet.com.

Editors and the journal office will offer assistance to authors and reviewers who may be unfamiliar with EES. Authors and reviewers can also use a 24-h telephone service for support on the following numbers:


USA and Canada: +1 888 834 7287 (toll-free for US and Canadian callers)

Asia and Pacific: +81 3 5561 5032

Europe and rest of world: +353 61 709 190


In September, 2005, an important EES landmark was reached as Tetrahedron Letters became the 750th journal to go live in the system. By the end of 2005, 1000 titles should be live in EES. Roll-out of Editorial Manager has also progressed. During the past few years, over 40 publishers have adopted Editorial Manager with a combined user-base of over 1 million.1 Development of EES and Editorial Manager continues through user feedback at the annual meetings of the Editorial Manager User Group,2 and through regular contact with publishers.

On Nov 5, The Lancet Infectious Diseases will also go live in EES, and we plan to add the other Lancet specialty titles in the coming months.

We hope you will enjoy using this new service and we are happy to hear any feedback you might have.


Information for authors:http://www.thelancet.com/authors/lancet/authorinfo

EES site for The Lancet:http://ees.elsevier.com/thelancet

EES site for The Lancet Infectious Diseases:http://ees.elsevier.com/thelancetid


References
1. Ware M. Worthing: Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, 2005:
http://www.alpsp.org/publications/pub10.htm
(accessed Oct 24, 2005).

2. Editorial Manager
http://www.editorialmanager.com/homepage/emusergroup.ht...
(accessed Oct 12, 2005).

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