Enhancements
Duration Alerts: Working Days
Following the release of Duration Alerts in DEX 3.0, you can now choose to count alert durations in working days only. When this option is selected, weekends are not counted towards the alert deadline, so your team is only alerted for genuine delays. As weekends differ between countries, you can choose which days to exclude (for example, Saturday and Sunday, or Friday and Saturday). Public holidays are not excluded.
KB Article: Duration Alerts
Reviewer Notes in Peer Review
Super Users can add a ‘Note’ to a reviewer in their Reviewer Database and Editors can add a note by clicking ‘Update Referee’ when choosing a reviewer from the database. Editors will now see this note when searching for reviewers during peer review. It appears in red under the reviewer’s Research Keywords, so important information is never missed. If a reviewer has no note, nothing is shown.
Journal Sitemaps and Publishing Settings
The ‘Public Flag’ setting in Journal Settings has been removed. Its functions are now handled automatically or by your existing Application Features:
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Sitemaps are now generated daily for every journal website hosted on JAMS, provided Journal Website Management is switched on. This helps make sure your published articles can be indexed by Google Scholar.
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The journal filter in English Office manuscript search now lists all journals.
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Whether editors see ‘Submit’ or ‘Mark as published’ on the publishing page is now controlled by whether the journal website is enabled for that journal.
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Sending published manuscripts to third-party websites is now controlled only by the ‘Export Published Manuscripts through FTP’ feature.
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The ‘Export Journal Data’ button has been removed. Journal data can be retrieved through the Outbound Manuscript API. No action is needed from you unless you previously relied on the Public Flag to hide a journal’s sitemap.
KB Article: Public Flag Legacy Function
Bug fixes
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An issue causing missing data in the Production Tasks Report for manuscripts that went through layout editing has been resolved.
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Users without access to a manuscript’s invoices now see a clear permissions page instead of an error.