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More than half of the journals published by Wiley are part of a transfer network. The
Transfer Desk Assistant (TDA) from Wiley is an intelligent mapping tool that assists in
locating appropriate journals for a manuscript within Wiley's portfolio and accelerates the
resubmission process. TDA analyses an article and recommends potential alternative Wiley
journals using machine learning technologies.

SpringerNature's Transfer Desk, a comparable manuscript transfer tool, enables writers to
easily resubmit their paper to a more appropriate journal. Transfer Desk subject matter
experts examine manuscripts using innovative journal matching technology, taking
submission preferences and any Editor or reviewer comments into account to determine
the optimal journal match.

Manuscript Exchange Common

Approach (MECA) – what is it?

Representatives from Aries Systems, Clarivate,
eJournalPress, HighWire Press, and PLOS
convened together in 2016 to address
inefficiencies in the way manuscripts were
transferred across their submission systems.

Manuscript transfers between journals and
publishers increased as more publishers
implemented cascade policies. Given that the
paper's metadata was already stored in the
submission system, it made sense to transfer it to
the new publication along with the manuscript.
This is a relatively straightforward process if both
journals utilize the same submission system; and
a slightly more complex process if the publisher
employed various submission methods for each
publication in their portfolio or among partner
publishers.

A consortium of manuscript/management service
providers and publishers have collaborated to
provide a standardized strategy that may now be
broadly implemented throughout the industry.

Approved as a NISO Recommended Practice in
June 2020, the MECA Recommended Practice is
the result of successful engagement with partners
from throughout the publishing ecosystem to
provide a framework for low-barrier manuscript
exchange.