NeoScriber: Journal Management System

Table of Contents:

• Definition, History, and Main Features
• Sub-Systems of NeoScriber
• Features of NeoScriber
• Peer Review Portal in NeoScriber
• Features of Publish Site of Journal in NeoScriber
• Post-publication Services
• What's New in each version of NeoScriber?

NeoScriber: What does it mean?

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

History:

NeoScriber provides journals with a high level of flexibility when it comes to configuration 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 with various options for getting online. Together this community has evolved to increase productivity and improve the workflow in the peer-review process. One of the brilliant features of NeoScriber is our hands-on, personalized service that allows you to set your 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 choose the site design, branding, feature set, business models, and content support they want for their publications. All content is hosted on Brieflands 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 that simplify managing an academic journal. NeoScriber, as one of the first journal management systems, consists of 3 sub-portals:

1. Article Submission System
2. Peer Review System
3. Advanced and Integrated Publishing System

Features of NeoScriber

The main features of NeoScriber are as follows:

• Flexible and Pre-planned Online Submission based on Article Types
• Manuscript and User Management System
• Advanced Search and Report Tools
• Mega-Publish 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 special 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 on Twitter, Facebook, Mendeley, etc.
• 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:

1. Paperless and green office a journal with all functions of an editorial office available for the Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editors, Reviewers, and Authors
2. Automated and manual email and SMS notifications and reminders
3. Single or Double-blind peer review system
4. Post-publication peer review system
5. Customize workflow for all types of relationships between editors and reviewers
6. NeoConnect: Search and invite new editorial board and reviewers from researchers' profiles in ISI, Medline, and Scopus
7. Manage publishing of manuscript from early submission to end of proof publishing
8. 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
• Cited by with Scopus, Scholar, and Crossref
• Export citations to Endnote, Bibtex
• Get Permission from Copyright (CC BY NC 4)
• Crossmark Enabled for Related articles
• Link to Related Articles in Scholar and PubMed
• Show Author Profile in Scholar, PMC
• Create Citation Alert per article
• Share Articles in Social Media
• Post-Publication Comments

Post-publication Services:

• Automated Production of all outputs required for bibliographic sources like ISI, Medline, DOAJ, ISC Portico, 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?

Version 6.19 (2024-12-01):

• Major improvements in Submission
• Implement the EIC table on the home page
• Prevent showing the inactive journals on published sites
• Download Pubmed XML of all articles of an issue in the admin panel
• Change Crossref XML generation
• Add Download Issue XML option
• Limit admin panel access in journal config
• Compare Proof XML with the latest imported XML
• need an option for Table Width in Mega Publish
• Many bug fixes

Version 6.18 (2024-11-10):

• Renovation of UI/UX Submission
• Implement upload file to AI chat
• Guard In Core-front
• Update Redis
• implement laravel pulse
• Implement Laravel Pint
• Update neoediting container
• Implement Submission workflow
• Update Postgresql
• Modification of Review\AE requests

Version 6.17 (2024-10-22):

• Modifications to Brieflands template
• Store draft file new approach for proof
• Split Files part in Submission Screening into 5 parts
• Reference step for submission
• Improvement in login time
• Show pdf diff in generate pdf
• Implement Soketi
• English Editing and Style Editing by AI in Admin of a Journal for Publisher
• Implement open AI in neoscriber as chat backend
• Implement a way to login without a username and password once
• ZarinPal implementation
• Show HTML in the editor after generating PDF in mega publish
• Problem of the tr in publishing pdf options
• Knowledgebase new implementation
• Many bug fixes

Version 6.16 (2024-09-29):

• Store draft in proof
• Implement child/parent model for pages
• Add versioning to pages
• Improvement of scrollbars in the new admin panel/submission
• Implement new design admin panel home page
• Improvement of UI on some pages
• Submission refactoring
• Implementation of laravel-slower
• Implement apply coupon code for neoediting
• Store the total price of the invoice in the neoediting
• Manual review by ai
• Import proof XML file from mega publish
• Refactor Blind and Full PDF Creation Process
• Implement broken-link-checker

Version 6.15 (2024-09-08):

• The last changes of the new proof system
• Journal home page modifications
• Journal names must be H1 H2 tags
• Implement a new design Home page Brieflands
• Submission system refactoring
• Update Laravel Framework to 11
• Update PHP packages to the latest version
• MeDRA Implementation
• Change all HTML to PDF conversion using a new method
• Change all the Raw or SQL queries into eloquent

Version 6.14 (2024-08-11):

• Implementation of a new editor with tack change and commenting system 
• Update the app infrastructure 
• Completion Sepidar implementation
• Implementation of 400 range response for publish sites
• Complete rewrite of Document Relations
• Change invoice pdf generation method
• Change all the Raw or SQL queries into eloquent

Version 6.13 (2024-07-21):

• Add OpenAI to review an article in our journals
• Sepidar API bug fixes
• Complete proof API transform
• Update html2pdf docker image
• Change all the Raw or SQL queries into eloquent (except journal module) part 1

Version 6.12 (2024-06-30):

• Improvements of Brieflands journal publish sites
• Dermo-Elixir Website
• Sepidar API implementation
• Improvements of new PDF generation method
• Equal authors
• Implement actions for man info for API endpoint
• Implement disposition for man info for API endpoint
• Add Canonical and robots for knowledge bases
• Change user authentication routes to API
• Complete proof API transform

Version 6.11 (2024-06-09):

• Improve the Home Page of Brieflands Journals
• Change maquette to use a new method
• Change the usage of TeX for figure preview and formula
• Implement another type of document improvement
• Creating Consent mode on websites
• Add foreign key for all relations if they do not exist in the database
• Add Title & Meta Description for Knowledgebase
• Acceptance letter modification
• Improvement in advanced search

Version 6.10 (2024-05-19):

• Move the publish site search to the repository
• Improve the Home Page of Brieflands
• Update all icons to the newest version
• Add kb to sitemap and make kb display design better
• Implement a way for multiple redirection in Nginx
• Add Meta Description to Global Pages
• Implement a new system for sending targeted emails to our authors
• Merge multiple reviewers' list
• Bug Fixes 

Version 6.9 (2024-04-28):

• New Proof Transform (phase 1)
• New login page design
• Improvements in the new admin panel
• Improvements in the mobile view of the admin panel
• Update icons of flags and menus
• Implement sitemap blacklist
• New article importer
• Affiliation implementation
• Refactor of journal metadata
• Bug Fixes

Version 6.8 (2024-04-06):

• Show all steps in submission screening 
• Implementation of dark mode in the new admin panel
• Redesign of some pages in publishing sites
• Improvements in the mobile view of the admin panel
• Huge improvements in the new PDF generation method
• Adding a new variable in the journal config for XML crossref
• New Maquette Generator
• Add AE to NeoReward
• Pub-Dates and Journal Publishing Models
• Add a category property for the journal
• Bug Fixes

Version 6.7 (2024-03-10):

• Reviewer and AE Registration Online Form
• Implement Crossref deposit check
• Import Indexing Links of an Article into our Man Info
• Indexing report of an article
• Implement a repository pattern for indexing sources
• Screening Results transform
• New transform for free of charge
• Add New Field to Issues-Mosalsal
• Many bug fixes

Version 6.6 (2024-02-18):

• New Publish PDF generation method implementation 
• Improvement Screening in core-front in code base and design
• Fix data of the related article after import
• Add a permission to cancel an approved invoices
• XML importer for transferring issues and articles from other journal management systems
• Show revision badge in manuscript notes
• Implement a repository pattern for indexing sources
• Many bug fixes

Version 6.5 (2024-01-28):

• Implement of admin menus in the front
• Implement new publish pdf generation
• Rest of Core-front improvements
• Remove some URLs in the sitemap Brieflands
• Update the robots.txt file
• Implement SEO features for the blog post editor in the admin site of Brieflands
• Many bug fixes

Version 6.4  (2024-01-07):

• change the UX of the Editorial Board Page
• Design a page for Journal Infomation
• Implement another way to get docx word count
• Add an API endpoint to provide the front app with user resources and roles
• Variable for List of Indexing Sources of each Journal
• Search in Indexing Sources
• Tagging improvements PubMed Central
• Many bug fixes 

Version 6.3 (2023-12-18):

• Implement AES two-way encryption
• Refactor pre-run-web middleware
• Make the admin index dashboard an API
• Refactor simple publish
• Move ORCID data of people to a table and relate it with the user
• Indexing source front
• Completion of some documentation
• Many bug fixes

Version 6.2 (01-12-2023):

• Implement Redmine Logger
• Improvement in exception handling
• Splitting some modules from the journal module
• Make online support configurable
• Update TeX file generation according to TeX 2020
• Bug fixes

Version 6.1 (01-10-2023):

• Handle hotfixes
• Movement of a build module
• Screening API
• Home page development
• Refactoring add/edit journal
• Documentations
• Bug fixes 

Version 5.25 (01-10-2022)

• Implement profile in NeoScriber for all journals
• Improvement in SEO
• Improvement in Issue Publication Date
• Add a search box to brieflands.com (link to the repository)
• Bug fixes

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 journal publish domains

Version 3.44 (08-01-2020):

• The "Main Corresponding Author" role is removed from the system since it was confusing for the authors
• Corresponding authors can reuse specific files of previous revisions in the new revision
• The archive page has been changed, and it is listed according to volumes, not the year of publication
• Some significant 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 published site results
• NeoSuggest: A service that allows rejected manuscripts to be transferred to another Brieflands 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 and AE can add reviewers from the Pubmed database
• EIC and AE can add reviewers from all our journals
• Search in publish sites can include all articles in our journals
• Fixed a bug that authors were not able to download similar files
• Some new Google Scholar meta tags were added to article pages
• Some modifications for SEO