We’re delighted to announce that we’re expanding our partnership with Silverchair to adopt ScholarOne Manuscripts as our comprehensive manuscript solution for our entire journal portfolio. The partnership deepens the existing relationship, which began in 2018 when we selected the Silverchair Platform to host our journals, making this a natural extension of a shared technology foundation.

Following an extensive tender process, we will be migrating to the new platform by the end of the year and we look forward to developing our relationship further with a trusted system used by more than 650 publishers worldwide.

As our existing hosting provider, Silverchair will allow for an extra layer of coordination. This enables direct visibility across both submission infrastructure and the hosting platform and a single point of accountability for support.

Professor Nigel Hooper, Chair of PPL Board said:

“Our move to ScholarOne Manuscripts is designed to better support the authors, reviewers and editors who make our journals possible. By introducing a more efficient and reliable platform, already familiar to researchers globally, we aim to make it easier for authors to submit their work, and for reviewers and editors to carry out their vital tasks.

The change will help us continue to uphold the integrity and quality of the Biochemical Society’s journals, while ensuring that we have the tools and practices needed to serve our community in an ever-changing publishing landscape.

We are pleased to be strengthening our existing partnership with Silverchair which will provide a better experience for everyone who contributes to and uses our journals.”

Will Schweitzer, CEO, Silverchair said:

“Portland Press has been a valued partner for years, and we are very pleased to expand that relationship to include ScholarOne Manuscripts. Their commitment to rigorous biochemical research publishing maps closely to the integrity tools and workflow capabilities we have built into ScholarOne, and having a single-vendor relationship means coordinated support at every stage of the publishing process.”

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