Roles

JPS is currently set up to include the following roles:

Production director

The production director is responsible for maintaining and updating the system configuration files, troubleshooting manuscript import and export problems, adding new workers to JPS, and providing support to existing users. They are your main contact if you are having problems. The production director does not carry out any tasks in the current workflow.

Production manager

The production manager is responsible for the day-to-day operation of the system. The PM reviews the manuscripts that come in from the submission system and directs them into the appropriate workflows. Production manager’s tasks include:

The production manager also forms and prepares issues, a process currently done outside of JPS.

Production editor manager

Production editor manager runs the team responsible for the post-publication check process. PE manager’s tasks include:

Assign the post-publication check to a PE

Note

PE manager can also assign other post-publication checkes to themselves. In that case, they assume the production editor role for the remainder of the process.

Production editor

The production editors, previously known as the PubMed team, bear the primary responsibility for guiding the paper through the post-publication check process. They identify and forward corrections to vendors, verify the implementation, and approve papers for archiving. PE’s tasks include:

Post-publication check

Records office

The records office is responsible for obtaining the license/author agreement document from the paper’s authors. Records office tasks include:

Awaiting author agreement

Payment office

The payment office is responsible for the invoicing process. Payment office tasks include:

Awaiting payment

Author

The corresponding author of the manuscript takes on this role.

Note

JPS currently supports only one corresponding author per manuscript

During the workflow, we interact with the author multiple times. Signing documents permitting us to publish the paper, paying the publication fees, reviewing manuscript proofs and answering our questions are all author’s responsibilities. Author’s tasks include:

Other roles may ask the author questions by raising queries during the following tasks:

Vendor

Vendors, occasionally referred to as the compositors or the production teams, are responsible for preparation of the author proofs, formatting and publication of the papers, implementing corrections, and archiving papers for the issue. Vendors’ tasks include:

System

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