EdiKit® Back Office Solutions
Hundreds of publications use our editorial management software, EdiKit, to manage submissions, editorial functions, and peer review. A customized "digital handshake" transfers accepted manuscripts to publishers such as Oxford University Press, Sage, Elsevier, Springer, and many others.
Edikit has been licensed to the Journal of Finance of the American Finance Association, the Journal of Economic Literature, and many other publications in the sciences, humanities, and social sciences. Among its benefits, EdiKit:
- accepts online submissions, automatically converting Word and WordPerfect documents to PDF
- greatly simplifies oversight of editorial tasks such as referee correspondence and manuscript tracking
- improves the peer-review process by tracking referee activity, automatically emailing appropriate reminders, and providing a mechanism for anonymous correspondence between reviewer and author
- eliminates mail and copy costs
- provides a streamlined batch or per-article handoff to publishers
EdiKit can be easily customized to the specific use behavior of each publication, with flexible elements such as submission fees, number of reviews required to render a decision, and the look and feel of the submission page. Our licenses include hosting, upgrades, and customer support, as well as training and documentation.
Full Service Journal Publishing
In addition to the "back office" solutions described above, many publications license end-to-end Berkeley Electronic Press technology, from submissions through editorial management and on through electronic publication. We provide mechanisms for both open access journals such as the Journal of Public Deliberation, and traditional subscription-based journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Political Science.
Berkeley Electronic Press full service journal licenses include customized sites and workflows, hosting, upgrades, and customer support, as well as training and documentation. Optional features include an access control module for gatekeeping subscriptions, and a leads generation tool to leverage downloads into subscriptions.