Author proofing with First Look
First Look lets you send accepted papers back to authors for corrections – with tracking on your dashboards and automated scheduled reminders.
The benefits of First Look author proofing
- Minimize production delays
- Send a system-created proof direct to the author(s) – or upload a third-party proof
- Authors can see instructions, comments, and queries and respond directly
- Authors can upload updated files or production-ready versions
- Admins and production staff can confirm any corrections and responses and if necessary return to author
- The entire First Look process can be tracked on from the relevant dashboards
- Notification and scheduled reminder emails
- Authors access proofs through notification email and direct link or via their Author Center
Publisher Controls
- Dashboard: With First Look active, journal staff can choose to return any accepted paper to the author for corrections (or to let authors provide updated production-ready files).
- Prepare Proofs: Choose what to send to the authors and add instructions, queries, and comments.
- Proof: By default, the system will generate a PDF proof from accepted manuscript files – alternatively, add a third party proof such as a typeset galley proof or copy-edited document.
- Finish or send back to author: Choose whether to send a proof to the author or whether to skip the step.
- Author proofing: If you opt to send an accepted manuscript back to the author they receive a notification email and direct link to the proof – or they can access via their Author Center.
- Configurable proofing process: Define the information and steps required for authors to complete the proofing process – this can be as simple as the example below or have additional pages added using the full submission configuration options.
- Display instructions, queries and comments: Authors can respond and upload their corrected files as required.
- Check and confirm: Optionally add a final checklist step or simply go direct from ‘finish’ to final file export – this export will include any comments and corrected files.
