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Electronic submission – Analogy with the Severn Bore

Electronic submission – Analogy with the Severn Bore
Electronic submission – Analogy with the Severn Bore
Introducing Elsevier's electronic submission system (EES) to the many erudite academics, clinicians and researchers who contribute to Medical Engineering & Physics (MEP) could have been a bore. I hope the physical scientists amongst you, who will recognise this natural phenomenon as a step function modulated by an Airy function, will forgive the pun. I was brought up in an area of the UK where the river Severn gives rise to the occurrence of a wave that can be equally like riding a roller coaster or a bit of a damp squib. It is thus with that same slightly nervous, queasy feeling that we embarked upon presenting the system to the many people submitting to MEP.
During the last quarter there have been many peaks and troughs whilst the system has moved towards a seamless publishing service, but the transients have given way to a stable soliton.
The main advantage of EES is the streamlining of effort required by all involved, not least the authors and reviewers. For authors it speeds up submission and turn-around of reviews. Authors can upload electronic copy written using a variety of word-processing software. The system automatically converts the files to portable document format (pdf). Conversion of complicated figures and mathematical formulae are also handled efficiently. To date very few problems have arisen and those that have occurred have been swiftly and satisfactorily resolved by our author support team.
Reviewers are able to receive an abstract along with their invitation to review before agreeing to act as a referee. Both editors and reviewers can electronically view the full manuscript, search for similar articles and submit reports to the editorial office. Manuscripts are passed securely to the production office keeping their unique identifying number and authors can view progress of their work throughout the editorial process.
Thus, as publication lead times improve even further we look forward to receiving your manuscripts and publishing the cutting edge research for which MEP is renowned.
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Howls, M.
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Allen, R.
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Howls, M.
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Howls, M., Allen, R. and Newman, S. (2005) Electronic submission – Analogy with the Severn Bore. Medical Engineering & Physics, 27 (3), 195-196. (doi:10.1016/j.medengphy.2005.01.002).

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Abstract

Introducing Elsevier's electronic submission system (EES) to the many erudite academics, clinicians and researchers who contribute to Medical Engineering & Physics (MEP) could have been a bore. I hope the physical scientists amongst you, who will recognise this natural phenomenon as a step function modulated by an Airy function, will forgive the pun. I was brought up in an area of the UK where the river Severn gives rise to the occurrence of a wave that can be equally like riding a roller coaster or a bit of a damp squib. It is thus with that same slightly nervous, queasy feeling that we embarked upon presenting the system to the many people submitting to MEP.
During the last quarter there have been many peaks and troughs whilst the system has moved towards a seamless publishing service, but the transients have given way to a stable soliton.
The main advantage of EES is the streamlining of effort required by all involved, not least the authors and reviewers. For authors it speeds up submission and turn-around of reviews. Authors can upload electronic copy written using a variety of word-processing software. The system automatically converts the files to portable document format (pdf). Conversion of complicated figures and mathematical formulae are also handled efficiently. To date very few problems have arisen and those that have occurred have been swiftly and satisfactorily resolved by our author support team.
Reviewers are able to receive an abstract along with their invitation to review before agreeing to act as a referee. Both editors and reviewers can electronically view the full manuscript, search for similar articles and submit reports to the editorial office. Manuscripts are passed securely to the production office keeping their unique identifying number and authors can view progress of their work throughout the editorial process.
Thus, as publication lead times improve even further we look forward to receiving your manuscripts and publishing the cutting edge research for which MEP is renowned.

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Published date: 2005
Additional Information: Editorial

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Local EPrints ID: 28539
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/28539
ISSN: 1350-4533
PURE UUID: 4142b529-5d89-4b25-8d86-0ccad1aff2c2

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Date deposited: 02 May 2006
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 07:25

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Author: M. Howls
Author: R. Allen
Author: S. Newman

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