Scholastica Co-Founder and Lead Designer Rob Walsh reflects on the team's approach to developing a new and improved Manuscripts Table for the Scholastica Peer Review System and his thoughts on supporting the growing scholarly communication ecosystem.

We just released a new and improved version of the Scholastica Peer Review System Manuscripts Table — journals' submission management hub. The new Manuscripts Table features advanced filtering options while maintaining an optimal UX to support smarter, speedier (and more enjoyable!) publishing workflows. Read on for the details!

In this interview, Jennifer Mahar, Executive Peer Review Manager at Origin Editorial, shares how she uses data insights to iteratively improve areas of peer review within editorial control, like the time it takes to complete manuscript quality checks, as well as areas outside of editorial control, like reviewer response rates.

With ingenuity and attention to detail, there are many aspects of journal operations that can be optimized to cut down publication time. In this post, we look at four ways journals can decrease days to manuscript decision to publish new articles faster.

Wendy Laura Belcher, former managing editor of Aztlán Journal of Chicano Studies, discusses how to avoid the perils of unclear communication with authors around manuscript decisions and ongoing revise and resubmit requests.