Silverchair has announced a new beta release of an API-driven solution for seamless two-way integrations in ScholarOne Manuscripts. ScholarOne Relay is a new API layer, allowing scalable integrations into ScholarOne from customer and third-party technologies.

ScholarOne Relay will supercharge the flexibility and integration opportunities within ScholarOne workflows, enabling publishers to quickly and efficiently address their most pressing challenges. The ability to create a network of interconnected solutions with a consistent presentation and reliable and modern interfaces will rapidly transform the user experience of ScholarOne Manuscripts.

The first pilot partnerships for ScholarOne Relay focus on embedding research integrity checks into workflows. Silverchair is piloting with Signals, Clear Skies, Cactus Communications, and STM Integrity Hub, using the Relay API to optimize for in-workflow solutions that remain efficient and effective, preserving editorial resources while improving their ability to identify and further investigate areas of potential research integrity issues.

“Our focus on research integrity reflects the urgency of these issues, the overall risk to editorial reputation, and Silverchair’s broader strategy to protect and preserve the scholarly record,” shares Josh Dahl, SVP of Product and General Manager, ScholarOne at Silverchair. “Relay is going to be a game changer: a powerful enabler with creative use cases for a variety of editorial and peer review challenges. This tool delivers the ability to unlock new levels of creativity and problem-solving within the ScholarOne workflows.”

During the beta phase, ScholarOne Relay is working with our pilot partners and a small group of publishing partners to refine the user experience and explore how these different research integrity initiatives can contribute to a centralized and comprehensive offering. Silverchair also plans to harness the power of ScholarOne Relay to support other areas of editorial management, peer review, and more.

ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, and MA Healthcare, the established publishing company providing nursing and medical education content, offering more than 50 peer-reviewed journals, digital resources, conferences, and websites for health professionals at all levels of training and practice, have announced a new Journal Home partnership to expand the reach, readership, and authorship of MA Healthcare  journals worldwide.

The Journal Home partnership includes 10 subscription and hybrid journals spanning nursing, dentistry, and community healthcare. MA Healthcare aims to increase readership of full-text articles and encourage international authorship through ResearchGate’s unique Journal Home offering. The journals included in this partnership will benefit from:

• Increased visibility through seamless delivery of all full-text articles from these journals onto the ResearchGate platform, with immediate amplification through ResearchGate’s network of 25+ million researcher members.
• Engaging highly relevant researchers throughout their research and publishing cycles – growing new authorship and increasing author engagement and loyalty.
• Improved brand awareness through dedicated journal profile pages to collate key information and content, plus prominent branding on associated article pages. 
• Enhanced author support, with automated updates to authors profiles on ResearchGate to better track usage, connect with readers, and measure impact.  

“Our Journal Home partnership with ResearchGate allows us to better support the needs of the healthcare community, improving visibility and access to our renowned nursing and medical education journals,” said Tom Pollard, Publishing Director of Digital Resources at Mark Allen Group. “Our Journal Home partnership provides our authors and readers new routes to engage and connect with our journals and grow our international community.” 

“I’m delighted to see  MA Healthcare partner with Journal Home to foster their engagement between authors and readers, and increase their authorship and readership internationally” said Sören Hofmayer, co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at ResearchGate. “Journal Home provides a unique opportunity for  MA Healthcare to add incremental usage beyond their own platform through our highly engaged researcher community, and to build deeper and lasting relationships with new and existing authors throughout their research cycles.”

For more information about Journal Home, please visit www.researchgate.net/journal-home

For more information about ResearchGate, please visit www.researchgate.net

For more information about MA Healthcare, please visit  https://www.markallengroup.com/who-we-are/about-ma-healthcare/ 

Aries Systems Corporation, a leading provider of workflow management technologies for the scholarly publishing community, and DataSeer, a developer of AI-powered research integrity solutions for institutions, publishers, and funders, are pleased to announce their partnership to elevate quality and transparency in scientific research.

Scholarly journals are often overburdened with time-consuming editorial checks on incoming submissions. Inconsistent journal standards, limited transparency, compliance discrepancies, and a rise in fraud can lead to expensive bottlenecks, post-publication corrections, and threats research integrity. To streamline this process and mitigate these risks, Aries Systems and DataSeer have partnered to integrate SnapShot, an automated editorial screen technology, with Editorial Manager® (EM), the leading manuscript submission and peer review tracking system.

Triggering an analysis at initial submission and revision in EM, SnapShot saves editorial offices time by automatically scanning every manuscript against a hierarchical schema of checks tailored to the journal’s needs and requirements. Available checks include data sharing, code sharing protocol, PID use, and more — generating fast, actionable report summaries for editorial teams and Author-ready returns in EM. Backed by a secure Large Language Model (LLM), SnapShot can immediately refine its criteria for checks based on feedback from the journal. Through this seamless integration, journals can screen submissions instantaneously within their existing editorial workflow in EM – streamlining manuscript triage, improving compliance with journal and funder policies, and enhancing the transparency of scientific research.

“Aries remains committed to offering integrated solutions designed to optimize workflow and enhance scholarly research through our ecosystem of connected technologies,” said Pierre Montagano, Aries’ Director of Business Development. “Our strategic partnership with DataSeer delivers automated detection and corrections at scale, supporting editorial offices and driving best practice in open science.”

“With SnapShot, we can assess nuanced, journal-specific criteria,” said DataSeer founder and CEO Tim Vines. “For example, SnapShot checks not just whether a data availability statement is present – but also whether data is actually shared, if the authors have used a journal-approved repository, and if the dataset includes the files we would expect given the type of paper. If the data isn’t shared, SnapShot evaluates whether the authors provided a valid reason. Integrating with Aries’ Editorial Manager system is a tremendous opportunity to provide support to a broad swath of the scholarly publishing community, and put efficient and effective research integrity checks within reach for more journals.”

For more information on the Editorial Manager/SnapShot integration, contact the DataSeer team at dataseer@dataseer.ai or your dedicated Aries Account Coordinator (AC).

Enago, a leader in publishing and educational technology solutions, today announced the launch of DocuMark, developed by Trinka AI. DocuMark is a groundbreaking platform designed to transform how academic institutions address AI-assisted student submissions. DocuMark shifts the focus from detection to transparency, allowing students to verify and take ownership of AI contributions in their work, while providing educators with valuable insights into the student writing process and alleviating their stress. This enables them to refocus on fostering meaningful learning outcomes instead of policing AI misuse.

As AI writing tools become increasingly sophisticated and accessible, educational institutions face significant challenges in maintaining academic integrity. DocuMark addresses these challenges by creating a transparent environment where universities can enable students to ethically incorporate AI tools into their learning journey while upholding their academic standards.

“DocuMark represents a paradigm shift in how we approach AI in education,” said Sharad Mittal, Founder and CEO of Trinka AI. “We designed DocuMark not as another policing tool, but as a supportive platform that relieves teacher stress by restoring clarity and trust in the classroom. In fact, one educator from our pilot phase said, ‘My stress is gone! DocuMark brings back the pre-ChatGPT clarity while embracing today’s technology.’”

He further added, “At the same time, DocuMark guides students to use AI responsibly, encouraging them to take ownership of their work. Our vision is to create an environment where AI enhances learning rather than undermines it. By fostering transparency and responsibility, we’re helping institutions navigate one of the most profound transformations in educational history.”

How does DocuMark benefit the students, educators, and the institutions:

DocuMark guides students to review and take full ownership of AI-assisted content before submission, providing faculty with verified submission reports that eliminate doubts about student effort. This innovative approach frees educators from the stress of detecting AI-generated content, allowing them to focus on what matters most: fostering learning and growth. The platform ensures that student writing follows institutional guidelines on academic integrity and AI usage, maintaining consistency and fairness across all submissions.

For students, DocuMark serves as both guide and safeguard. The system helps learners reflect on their use of AI tools, clarify their actions, and adjust any improper usage. This process builds confidence and ensures students understand the boundaries of appropriate AI assistance. “I was using AI incorrectly until DocuMark guided me. Now I’m confident submitting my assignments without fear,” reported a student participant in the platform’s beta testing program.

Educators experience significant relief from the burden of verifying AI-generated content. DocuMark restores clarity to the assessment process while embracing current technology. “Finally, I can focus on teaching instead of playing detective. DocuMark has restored trust in my classroom.” said a professor from the same beta testing program.

Administrative benefits extend beyond basic compliance. DocuMark provides clear data and insights that help institutions reinforce and refine their policies on academic integrity and AI usage. This data can help institutions craft better AI policies and ensure that students are learning responsibly in the digital age.

The platform seamlessly integrates within existing LMS systems and is available immediately for institutional adoption. Trinka AI is also offering a pilot program for universities interested in exploring how DocuMark can transform their approach to academic integrity. This opportunity allows institutions to experience first-hand how the platform can reduce faculty stress, enhance student learning, and maintain academic standards in the age of AI. “We invite forward-thinking universities to join us in redefining academic integrity for the AI era,” added Sharad Mittal.

For more information about DocuMark or to apply for the pilot program, visit https://www.trinka.ai/features/documark or contact connect@trinka.ai

Hum has announced that Oxford University Press (OUP), one of the world’s largest university presses, will soon begin using Hum’s AI-based editorial assistant, Alchemist Review. 

Working on a limited set of content, this collaboration will enable OUP to leverage Hum’s deep textual analysis together with Grounded AI’s contextual citation checks to provide an intelligent manuscript assessment to their editors. The goals are to enhance the depth of manuscript assessment, reduce editorial burden and seek efficiencies in the editorial review process. 

As part of a human-led editorial review process, Alchemist Review will use advanced AI capabilities to automatically extract key manuscript insights, including central claims, methodology assessment, reference validation, and research originality. These artifacts will be used to support OUP’s editors in making more informed decisions while reducing administrative burden.

An additional part of this collaboration will focus on tool integration into existing editorial workflows. OUP and Hum will be working with Silverchair’s ScholarOne Manuscripts to develop a process for seamless manuscript extraction and the return of key information back into their system.

“OUP is exactly the type of organization we seek to collaborate with. They’re smart, diligent, and deeply engaged in the details,” said Dustin Smith, Co-founder and President of Hum. “We both deeply value enhancing the speed, quality, and efficiency of editorial decision making. We expect their feedback to be instrumental in shaping Alchemist Review.

The trial will focus on implementing Alchemist Review’s advanced AI capabilities to automatically extract key manuscript insights, including central claims, methodology assessment, citation validation, and research originality evaluation. These features will support OUP’s editors and reviewers in making more informed decisions leading to enhanced productivity.

“At OUP, we’re exploring innovative technologies to address challenges and opportunities in the publishing process while maintaining our commitment to the highest standards of academic integrity,” said Julia McDonnell, Director of Journals Product at Oxford University Press. “Alchemist Review offers promising capabilities that could significantly improve the support for our editorial teams in evaluating manuscripts and delivering exceptional content to the academic community.”

Cassyni, the platform for research seminars, and Springer Nature, a global research publisher, today announced the expansion of their partnership to enable more journals to build engagement with their research communities through online seminars.

Springer Nature’s Research Communities (powered in partnership with Zapnito) provide a free online platform for researchers and peers to connect, generate discussions and explore research findings that matter to them. The extended partnership better integrates Cassyni’s offerings into the platform meaning any journal can easily set up seminars to promote new journal issues, key research articles and calls for papers.

Individual journals, ranging from titles such as Nature Communications to specialist publications such as Nonlinear Dynamics, will host their own research seminars. These seminars will reflect each journal’s unique branding and focus, helping to build dedicated communities around specific research areas. At the same time, the seminars will be promoted across the broader Springer Nature Research Communities platform, encouraging participation beyond the core audience. The outcome is deep engagement between the journals and their primary readership, while also encouraging cross-discipline interaction across the wider community.

Andrew Preston, Co-founder at Cassyni, says:

Cassyni-hosted seminars, which can be embedded directly into a journal’s website, are an ideal solution to meet the changing needs of researchers. These seminars not only attract but also engage a worldwide community of researchers. Thanks to the “Cassyni Effect,” a significant portion of this audience will subsequently cite and publish in the journal hosting the seminars, contributing to the journal’s growth and success. We are thrilled to be able to offer this impactful solution at scale across the Springer Nature portfolio.

Marc Gillett, Head of Editorial Engagement at Springer Nature, says:

At Springer Nature, we are committed to supporting and connecting researchers worldwide – to each other and to the latest research. Our investment in our Research Communities platforms exemplifies this commitment. Expanding our partnership with Cassyni enables us to empower even more journals and authors to extend their interdisciplinary and global connections delivering new value to authors and readers alike.

At launch, the following Communities will be included: Agricultural & Food Science, Astronomy, Cancer, Chemistry, Computational Science, Earth & Environment, Engineering, Genetics & Genomics, Materials, Mathematics & Statistics, Neuroscience, Physics, Social Sciences, and Sustainability.

For more information and to explore the seminars visit: https://cassyni.com/c/springer-nature.