e-Scripts - The Society’s Multidisciplinary Journal Publication System

e-Scripts is a peer reviewed, multidisciplinary journal publication system that offers an alternative to the traditional way of presenting, disseminating and sharing of results of scientific research efforts. e-Scripts builds on Web 2.0 inspired mechanisms that revolutionize the scholarly publication process. These mechanisms combine web interactivity with the latest research on peer-review publications, including self-optimising processes that lead to fair, unbiased and autonomous review systems. As a result, e-Scripts substantially reduces the regular timeframe of the scientific publication life cycle, thus accelerating the transformation of abstract research ideas into practical applications.

1. Accelerated Publishing Lifecycle

By providing a mechanism for a reviewer-initiated evaluation process, e-Scripts revolutionizes and accelerates the research dissemination and innovation cycle. e-Scripts encourages the early and open exchange of research ideas through its Web 2.0 interaction, providing rapid feedback from readers and reviewers, leading to faster publication. The creation of an effective channel for the transfer of theoretical results to practical, industry and business-oriented applications maximizes the authors’ impact, ranking and visibility.

2. Community Enforced Objectivity

The operating principles of e-Scripts aligns itself to one of ICST’s main missions, which is to fully involve and empower the scientific community to directly define scientific excellence. This is without the control of rigid structures such as elected or appointed intermediary organisations or committees.

In e-Scripts, the submission, review and evaluation processes evolve autonomously, based on objective scientific merit criteria, with the Editorial Boards being responsible for strategy, scope and quality control. Reviewers in the system are ranked by the scientific community according to a comprehensive set of evaluation criteria, which leads to the highest quality of reviews available. Community members bid for the right to review the full papers of openly published abstracts and bidders with the maximum matching interests and highest professional qualifications are selected.

3. Protection and Expanded Exposure

By protecting published results through a combination of fast publication and monitored registration of both reviewers and readers, e-Scripts encourages the early and open exchange of research ideas. Through wide dissemination of abstracts and controlled access to the corresponding full papers, only by selected reviewers, authors achieve a substantially wider scale of exposure without risking the protection of their intellectual property investment.

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ASSYST – The Society’s Article Management System

As part of the technical and IT services and tools provided to the conference organisers, ICST offers a sophisticated software application called Article Submission System (ASSYST) to facilitate the Paper Submission and Review Process typically followed by ICST sponsored conferences. Throughout the organizational process of a standard technical conference, ASSYST is used by multiple members of the Organizing Committee as well as by all the authors submitting papers to the conference. In addition, ASSYST serves the respective contributors of the paper submission, review, selection and notification process, such as members of the Technical Program Committee, the Technical Program Committee Chair and the Publication Chair.

ASSYST is also deployed to structure the content, create the design, and facilitate the production process of the Conference Proceedings sent to publishing digital libraries containing the official scientific output of the conference. ASSYST substantially facilitates the work of the conference organizers, particularly the Publication Chair, in their efforts to ensure that (1) uploaded camera-ready papers comply with the official publisher’s formatting requirements, (2) authors with accepted papers have duly submitted the copyright form relevant to the official publishing agreement for the conference proceedings and (3) authors of accepted papers have paid the official registration fees for the conference.

For more information for conference organisers and authors please see the ICST Conference Organisers’ Manual.

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