Manuscript Tracking Software/Systems

[Gerry Mckiernan]

                       _Manuscript Tracking Software/Systems_

   I am greatly interested in a _review article or two_ that generally describes and profiles selected Manuscript Tracking Software/Systems and their use by journal publishers.  Manuscript Tracking Software/Systems permit authors to submit manuscripts, editors  to track the manuscripts during the peer review process, and some cases [?] allow publishers to expedite  the publication of accept submissions. An example of a Manuscript Tracking Software/System is PaperPath  [ http://www.paperpath.com/]; others can be identified by a Google search on the keywords ,e,g. 'Manuscript tracking'.

  I have searched ERIC and Library Literature  and Business and Company ASAP, and  Lexis-Nexis/Academic Universe but do not find relevant documents. This is somewhat puzzling as Manuscript Tracking Software/Systems seem to have been adopted by a number of major journal publishers.

  As Always, Any and All contributions, suggestions, comments, queries, cosmic insights, etc, are Most Welcome.

/Gerry McKiernan
Tracking Librarian 
Iowa State University
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck at iastate.edu