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About ACOMS+

ACOMS+ is an online scholarly peer review system that supports the submission, review, and decision of a manuscript,
helping the spread of Open Science and leading scholarly communication.

Internationally recognized online peer-review system Peer-review system, supporting Open Science, available without charge.
Connecting Open Access Platform, AccessON Possible to submit a manuscript to a journal, review a manuscript, or decide on the publication of a manuscript with AccessON account. In addition, users can use diverse AccessON services together.
Extending convenience ACOMS+ provides an administration page, where a journal manager can add a journal information and set up
peer-review options. ACOMS+ also provides various
statistics and other data for a journal operation.

Main services

User

Author

Providing an intuitive and convenient submission process and interface
Possible to view four-steps of peer-review
[Coming Soon] Submitting a manuscript prepared on AccessON Collab
[Coming Soon] Self-archiving a manuscript accepted on ACOMS+ to AccessON researcher's repository
[Coming Soon] Supporting a submission of research data

Reviewer

Non-members can review a manuscript without a regular sign-up process
Providing quantitative/qualitative evaluation for objective and convenient peer-review
Issuing four kinds of peer-review certificates
[Coming Soon] Updating a peer-review activity in ORCID (in case ORCID ID is connected)

Editor/Editor-in-Chief

Managing editors and authorizing final-decision role
Possible to search for more reviewers by sharing reviewer pools among ACOMS+ journals and ORCID data
Improving reviewer search by specifying the journal's research field and reviewer's research area

All users

Supporting a single sign-on with AccessON membership account
Supporting a log-in with ORCID ID
Supporting Korean/English interface for foreign researchers
Providing Dashboard functions, helping understand all peer-review processes and history

User's page

Review recognition

Dashboard for past activities

Journal manager

The simple and convenient ACOMS+ application process
Providing convenient and useful journal admin pages
Inserting and updating basic information and regulations of a journal, such as submission and review policies
Possible to apply open peer review with hybrid style, opening up reviewer's identity and review report
Functions to set up or manage policies of open access, copyrights, and archiving, following OA publication standards
Functions to manage a journal's volumes and issues, including special issues
Providing submission statistics and reports, including the number (or ratios) of submissions, authors, reviewers, and acceptance rate

[Coming Soon] Providing submission lists and statistics, which can be used in applying for a domestic journal's evaluation or other government projects
[Coming Soon] Will introduce an electronic payment system for helping pay authors' publication fees
Functions to manage a journal's announcement and reference data
Supporting education for a journal manager
Operating a helpdesk
Possible to manage a scholarly publishing lifecycle from manuscript submission to distribution on a manager's page (if a journal also uses an AccessON journal repository)

Admin page

How to use

It is necessary to submit a scholarly society's (or institute) application for using the ACOMS+ service.

STEP 01 A scholarly society (or institute) submit an online application.
STEP 02 KISTI receives and reviews
the application.
STEP 03 KISTI creates a domain and
web pages, provides education program for journal staffs.
STEP 04 Journal uses ACOMS+ services.

ACOMS+ system architecture

HELP DESK acomsplus@kisti.re.kr

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