Two useful system features: Activity Log and Notes (on this paper)
Each paper has its own Activity Log and Notes that you and the editor can view, located on the paper’s page towards the top of the screen.
- The system keeps an activity log for each paper that records all decisions and communications made through the dialogue box. You can review all this activity by clicking on the paper’s Activity Log. This is a useful tool since it shows all system activity for this paper.
- Use the Notes feature to post comments related to the review process. These notes are shared only with the editor, AEiC, and you. Since the activity log doesn’t show private email conversations that you had with the author, reviewer, or editor, put a copy of those emails, or perhaps just important paragraphs, in the paper’s Notes. The system emails these notes “upward”; that is, the EiC is notified by email when an editor creates a note, but not vice versa. To contact an Editor, we ask EiCs to email the editor outside of the system and, in the Notes, indicate that they have done so.
