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AMS Transitions to New Author Upload and Tracking SystemsThe AMS is pleased to announce that it will be moving its peer review and production tracking systems to Aries Systems’ Editorial Manager® (EM) and Preprint Manager® (PM) during the summer of 2010 (http://www.editorialmanager.com/homepage/home.htm). EM and PM will replace the author upload and the peer review and production tracking systems that were developed by the AMS. The AMS has been dealing with a series of hardware and software issues that have made the author upload and tracking systems unreliable over the past year. In addition, the AMS does not have the resources to continue development and support of a complete author upload and tracking system. The new system has an uptime of >99.98% over the past year. Since January 2008, the AMS has significantly reduced production times from a mean value of 270 days to a current value of just under 160 days. While this is a welcome reduction, the switch to EM and PM will allow the AMS to take advantage of many automated processes and simplify many production tasks, ultimately reducing production times to the 120-day range or lower. Additionally, authors will have a much-improved experience when uploading papers relative to the current process. Key features for authors include the ability to track their manuscript progress through the peer review and production process, full support for LaTeX submissions, a vastly improved interface, and single username password login for all submissions. The new systems will be launched during the summer of 2010. During this period the AMS will phase in implementation of EM and PM across all of its scholarly journals and the Bulletin (BAMS), resulting in much greater efficiency for authors from manuscript submission to publication.
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