Berkeley Electronic Press Teams with Learned Societies to Improve Publication Workflow
The Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) today announced two major new partnerships with learned societies. Through these agreements, the American Finance Association (AFA) and the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) will license EdiKit, the editorial management system designed by bepress, to improve the publication workflow for their flagship journals.
EdiKit is an Internet-based system enabling editors to manage their tasks in an efficient manner. Routine functions such as submission-tracking, review requests, correspondence, reminders to referees, and revise-and-resubmits are managed through EdiKit. The net effect is a substantial reduction in the workload for journal editors.
The American Finance Association's Journal of Finance, the premier journal in financial economics, will employ EdiKit for all processes from submission through editor's decision. Final publication of the journal will occur after an electronic transfer of files from The Berkeley Electronic Press to Blackwell Publishers. NASPA, the leading voice for student affairs administration, policy and practice, will utilize EdiKit for every step in the publication workflow, including the ultimate posting of articles in the Internet-based NASPA Journal.
"We are quite pleased to furnish both the American Finance Association and the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators with our EdiKit system," said Robert D. Cooter, co-CEO of The Berkeley Electronic Press. "The editors of their journals will save time and hassle by using EdiKit – not to mention saving a significant amount of money in the form of copying, mailing and administrative expenses. Readers, too, will benefit from a streamlined publication process."
About The Berkeley Electronic Press
Founded by academics in 1999, The Berkeley Electronic Press ("bepress") is both a publisher of peer-reviewed electronic journals and a software developer, having created the institutional repository platform that powers Digital Commons as well as the University of California's eScholarship Repository. The Company produces tools to improve scholarly communication via innovative and effective means of content production and dissemination. Bepress has a portfolio of products and services that reduces the costs of and barriers to access.
For additional information on bepress, please see: www.bepress.com.