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NORTH ANDOVER, Mass., April 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Aries Systems Corporation is pleased to announce that it has entered into a multi-year distribution agreement with ATLAS Co. Ltd. Under the terms of the agreement ATLAS will market and support Aries' Editorial Manager submission and peer review system in Japan. Editorial Manager is currently deployed to 3,200+ publications, and Japanese scholarly societies have expressed a growing interest in the system for English and local language...

NORTH ADOVER, Mass., March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- EMH Swiss Medical Publisher Ltd. (Schweizerische Arzteverlag AG) and Aries Systems Corporation are pleased to announce an agreement to deploy Aries' Editorial Manager online peer-review system to journals published by EMH. The project will begin with deployment of Editorial Manager to two of the publisher's leading journals: Swiss Medical Weekly (SMW) and Kardiovaskulare Medizin. First published in 1871 and indexed in Medline, the Swiss...

Reviewer Finder to Speed up the Peer Review Process! COLUMBIA, S.C., Feb. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Collexis Holdings Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: CLXS), a leading developer of semantic search and knowledge discovery software, announced today that the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) has licensed the Collexis' Reviewer Finder and Journal Dashboard applications for the 6 AACR cancer research journals. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090107/CLW051LOGO ) "The...

ARLINGTON, Va., Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- BioInformatics, LLC (http://www.gene2drug.com) -- the leading market research and consulting firm serving the life science industry -- announces the publication of its latest report, "The Brave New World of Scientific Publishing." Going beyond the original social media study published jointly in 2007 by BioInformatics and PJA -- an award-winning business-to-business advertising and marketing agency -- this report explores the impact of Web 2.0 and...

MONTVALE, N.J., Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The Journal of Family Practice, a leader in the delivery of information dedicated to enhancing the family physician's practice, has announced the launch of a new search engine tool: JFPFindit.com (http://www.jfpfindit.com/). As part of The Journal of Family Practice's continued commitment to providing physicians with a wealth of peer-reviewed, practical clinical data and practice information, The Journal of Family Practice has partnered with Convera(R)...

Young scientists are increasingly breaking with tradition by posting raw scientific data online, the Boston Globe reported. The newspaper said the open-science movement is considered a "brazen, potentially self-destructive move" to many in the scientific community. Traditionally, research is not released publicly until it is published in peer-reviewed research journals. "We're a generation who expects all information is a Google search away," Barry Canton, a biological engineer at the...

PORTLAND, Ore., April 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) standards for 2007 have broadened the need for hospitals to use external peer review, according to Dr. Skip Freedman, Executive Medical Director at AllMed Healthcare Management, a national Independent Review Organization (IRO). Peer review is an internal process by which hospitals assure that its doctors are competent and well trained enough to safely treat patients and provide...

CHICAGO - The editor of a top medical journal on Monday raised the pressure on scientists to fully disclose commercial ties by urging the employers of those who don't comply to probe them for possible conflicts of interest.Dr. Catherine DeAngelis, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, said in an editorial that magazines cannot get together and blacklist authors who fail to disclose commercial ties because of antitrust considerations."So what other tools are left to...