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            "temp_new_content": "<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022><em><strong>RVRite 2.0 unifies collaborative authoring, automated XML conversion, in-system proofing, and integrated post-acceptance integrity checks to accelerate time to publish and reduce publishing costs.</strong></em></p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022><strong>London, UK &ndash; 3 February 2026</strong> &ndash; River Valley Technologies (RVT) today announced <strong>RVRite 2.0</strong>, an <strong>XML-first authoring and production platform</strong> that unifies collaborative authoring, automated XML conversion, and in-system proofing. The platform enables publishers and societies to accelerate time to publication, reduce manual administration, lower operational costs, and strengthen research integrity across their publishing portfolio.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>Publishers are under increasing pressure to do three things at once: <strong>publish faster, reduce production costs</strong>, and <strong>increase integrity and transparency</strong>. Yet many workflows still rely on disconnected handoffs between submission, revision, and production &ndash; creating friction for authors and editors, and leaving blind spots when content changes late in the process.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022><strong>RVRite 2.0 closes those gaps by making structured XML the foundation of the workflow</strong>, ensuring all outputs, including the final <strong>PDF</strong>, are produced from a single, consistent source. Every change is traceable across versions, and content is &ldquo;<strong>born accessible</strong>&rdquo; by default. By putting XML at the core of the publishing cycle, RVRite helps ensure accessible outputs can be generated consistently, without retrofitting at the end.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022><strong>A unified environment for authoring, revisions and proofing</strong></p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 aria-level=\u00221\u0022>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 role=\u0022presentation\u0022><strong>Collaborative authoring</strong>, enabling authors to write and revise together</p>\r\n</li>\r\n<li dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 aria-level=\u00221\u0022>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 role=\u0022presentation\u0022>A smoother author journey across submission, revisions, and <strong>final author proofing</strong>&nbsp;</p>\r\n</li>\r\n<li dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 aria-level=\u00221\u0022>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 role=\u0022presentation\u0022><strong>Automated conversion to structured XML</strong>, including references, to reduce manual production steps and rework</p>\r\n</li>\r\n<li dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 aria-level=\u00221\u0022>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 role=\u0022presentation\u0022>Consistent multi-format publishing outputs in publishers&rsquo; bespoke styles</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022><strong>Continuous integrity and full transparency</strong></p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>RVRite 2.0 can integrate with RVT&rsquo;s Research Integrity dashboard, <strong>RVRi</strong>, enabling integrity checks during production and &ndash; for publishers using ReView &ndash; throughout the lifecycle from submission to publication. With full version history and transparency, publishers gain clearer oversight, including change tracking and auditable workflows through to publication.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022><strong>Faster time to publish and reduced publishing costs</strong></p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>By automating XML conversion and keeping author collaboration, revision handling, and proofing in one continuous workflow, RVRite 2.0 helps publishers to:</p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 aria-level=\u00221\u0022>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 role=\u0022presentation\u0022>shorten production cycle times</p>\r\n</li>\r\n<li dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 aria-level=\u00221\u0022>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 role=\u0022presentation\u0022>reduce manual intervention and repetitive formatting work</p>\r\n</li>\r\n<li dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 aria-level=\u00221\u0022>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 role=\u0022presentation\u0022>strengthen quality control with more consistent structured content</p>\r\n</li>\r\n<li dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 aria-level=\u00221\u0022>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 role=\u0022presentation\u0022>improve transparency and auditability across the lifecycle</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>RVRite 2.0 also strengthens RVT&rsquo;s end-to-end workflow data layer, supporting portfolio-level reporting, governance, and auditability across systems.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022><strong>Maryam Bazargan, CEO of River Valley Technologies, said:</strong> &ldquo;RVRite 2.0 is built for publishers who want speed and scale without sacrificing integrity or control. By putting XML at the centre of authoring and production and keeping integrity checks active throughout, we are enabling a simpler, more transparent journey from submission to publication.&rdquo;</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>RVRite 2.0 is part of River Valley&rsquo;s modular suite spanning submission and peer review (<strong>ReView</strong>), integrated research integrity oversight, XML-first production and author proofing (<strong>RVRite</strong>), hosting (<strong>RVHost</strong>), and analytics (<strong>DARVi</strong>). Publishers can adopt RVRite independently or as part of an end-to-end workflow and integrate it with existing systems.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022><strong>Availability</strong></p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>RVRite 2.0 is available now. To request a demo or sandbox, contact info@rivervalley.io</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>",
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            "news_content": "<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022><em><strong>RVRite 2.0 unifies collaborative authoring, automated XML conversion, in-system proofing, and integrated post-acceptance integrity checks to accelerate time to publish and reduce publishing costs.</strong></em></p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022><strong>London, UK &ndash; 3 February 2026</strong> &ndash; River Valley Technologies (RVT) today announced <strong>RVRite 2.0</strong>, an <strong>XML-first authoring and production platform</strong> that unifies collaborative authoring, automated XML conversion, and in-system proofing. The platform enables publishers and societies to accelerate time to publication, reduce manual administration, lower operational costs, and strengthen research integrity across their publishing portfolio.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>Publishers are under increasing pressure to do three things at once: <strong>publish faster, reduce production costs</strong>, and <strong>increase integrity and transparency</strong>. Yet many workflows still rely on disconnected handoffs between submission, revision, and production &ndash; creating friction for authors and editors, and leaving blind spots when content changes late in the process.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022><strong>RVRite 2.0 closes those gaps by making structured XML the foundation of the workflow</strong>, ensuring all outputs, including the final <strong>PDF</strong>, are produced from a single, consistent source. Every change is traceable across versions, and content is &ldquo;<strong>born accessible</strong>&rdquo; by default. By putting XML at the core of the publishing cycle, RVRite helps ensure accessible outputs can be generated consistently, without retrofitting at the end.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022><strong>A unified environment for authoring, revisions and proofing</strong></p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 aria-level=\u00221\u0022>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 role=\u0022presentation\u0022><strong>Collaborative authoring</strong>, enabling authors to write and revise together</p>\r\n</li>\r\n<li dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 aria-level=\u00221\u0022>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 role=\u0022presentation\u0022>A smoother author journey across submission, revisions, and <strong>final author proofing</strong>&nbsp;</p>\r\n</li>\r\n<li dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 aria-level=\u00221\u0022>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 role=\u0022presentation\u0022><strong>Automated conversion to structured XML</strong>, including references, to reduce manual production steps and rework</p>\r\n</li>\r\n<li dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 aria-level=\u00221\u0022>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 role=\u0022presentation\u0022>Consistent multi-format publishing outputs in publishers&rsquo; bespoke styles</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022><strong>Continuous integrity and full transparency</strong></p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>RVRite 2.0 can integrate with RVT&rsquo;s Research Integrity dashboard, <strong>RVRi</strong>, enabling integrity checks during production and &ndash; for publishers using ReView &ndash; throughout the lifecycle from submission to publication. With full version history and transparency, publishers gain clearer oversight, including change tracking and auditable workflows through to publication.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022><strong>Faster time to publish and reduced publishing costs</strong></p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>By automating XML conversion and keeping author collaboration, revision handling, and proofing in one continuous workflow, RVRite 2.0 helps publishers to:</p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 aria-level=\u00221\u0022>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 role=\u0022presentation\u0022>shorten production cycle times</p>\r\n</li>\r\n<li dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 aria-level=\u00221\u0022>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 role=\u0022presentation\u0022>reduce manual intervention and repetitive formatting work</p>\r\n</li>\r\n<li dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 aria-level=\u00221\u0022>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 role=\u0022presentation\u0022>strengthen quality control with more consistent structured content</p>\r\n</li>\r\n<li dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 aria-level=\u00221\u0022>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 role=\u0022presentation\u0022>improve transparency and auditability across the lifecycle</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>RVRite 2.0 also strengthens RVT&rsquo;s end-to-end workflow data layer, supporting portfolio-level reporting, governance, and auditability across systems.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022><strong>Maryam Bazargan, CEO of River Valley Technologies, said:</strong> &ldquo;RVRite 2.0 is built for publishers who want speed and scale without sacrificing integrity or control. By putting XML at the centre of authoring and production and keeping integrity checks active throughout, we are enabling a simpler, more transparent journey from submission to publication.&rdquo;</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>RVRite 2.0 is part of River Valley&rsquo;s modular suite spanning submission and peer review (<strong>ReView</strong>), integrated research integrity oversight, XML-first production and author proofing (<strong>RVRite</strong>), hosting (<strong>RVHost</strong>), and analytics (<strong>DARVi</strong>). Publishers can adopt RVRite independently or as part of an end-to-end workflow and integrate it with existing systems.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022><strong>Availability</strong></p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>RVRite 2.0 is available now. To request a demo or sandbox, contact info@rivervalley.io</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>",
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            "temp_new_content": "<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>London, UK &ndash; 19 November 2025 &ndash;&nbsp; AIP Publishing (AIPP) has selected River Valley&rsquo;s&nbsp;<strong>ReView 3.0, the next-generation submission and peer review platform</strong>, to manage the AIP Conference Proceedings program following a rigorous Request for Information (RFI) and Request for Proposal (RFP) process and a successful multi-conference pilot.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>During the evaluation, AIPP trialled ReView 3.0 across several live conferences, confirming significant reductions in both editorial turnaround times and administrative workload. The platform&rsquo;s robust workflow automation and intuitive interface delivered measurable efficiency gains, aligning with AIPP&rsquo;s strategic goals for operational scalability and publishing integrity.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>&ldquo;<em>We are delighted to partner with AIPP on this major implementation</em>,&rdquo; said Maryam Bazargan, CEO of River Valley Technologies. &ldquo;<em>ReView 3.0 was built with efficiency, transparency, and flexibility in mind &ndash; values we share with AIPP. Their selection validates our vision for the future of scholarly publishing.</em>&rdquo;</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>Designed for publishers managing high volumes of submissions, ReView 3.0 offers content-agnostic workflows, full audit trails, a real-time dashboard, and configurable peer review models. Editors, authors, and conference organizers all benefit from a streamlined, role-specific user experience.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>The platform is also integrated with River Valley&rsquo;s Integrated Research Integrity Checker &ndash; a configurable suite of tools (both in-house and third-party) that helps flag ethical concerns such as plagiarism, excessive self-citation, tortured phrases, and statistical anomalies. Embedded directly within the submission workflow, it ensures early and efficient detection while adapting to AIPP&rsquo;s editorial policies.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>&ldquo;<em>ReView 3.0 will help us streamline workflows and strengthen research integrity across our Conference Proceedings program</em>,&rdquo; said Bridget D&rsquo;Amelio, Director of Publishing Development at AIP Publishing. &ldquo;<em>It&rsquo;s an important step in improving the experience for editors and authors while upholding the quality and trust that define AIP Publishing</em>.&rdquo;</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>Recognized with&nbsp;<strong>Gold at the 2025 SSP EPIC Awards</strong>, River Valley&rsquo;s ReView 3.0 is quickly gaining traction among scholarly publishers and societies as a flexible, future-ready platform that unifies submission management, research integrity, and production workflows.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022><strong>About River Valley Technologies</strong><br>For over 35 years, River Valley has been dedicated to enhancing research communication through innovative technology, including the world&rsquo;s first fully XML-based end-to-end publishing system. Its mission is to transform the journey from research to publication into an efficient, transparent, and accessible process.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>River Valley&rsquo;s solutions are designed to empower publishers and societies to reduce the time and cost of publishing, and to streamline every stage of the publishing process. With head office in London and offices in India, River Valley supports clients across EMEA, the USA, and Asia. Clients include The IET, Emerald Publishing, American Physical Society, The British Academy and GigaScience</p>\r\n<p><strong>Contact:</strong><br><a href=\u0022mailto:info@rivervalley.io\u0022>info@rivervalley.io</a></p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022><strong>About AIP Publishing</strong><br>AIP Publishing&rsquo;s mission is to advance, promote, and serve the physical sciences for the benefit of humanity by breaking barriers to open, fair research communication and empowering researchers to accelerate global progress.&nbsp;<a href=\u0022https://publishing.aip.org/\u0022>AIP Publishing</a>&nbsp;is a wholly owned not-for-profit subsidiary of the&nbsp;<a href=\u0022https://www.aip.org/\u0022>American Institute of Physics</a>&nbsp;(AIP) and supports the charitable, scientific, and educational purposes of AIP through scholarly publishing activities on its behalf and on behalf of our publishing partners.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022><strong>Contact:</strong><br>Sara Girard, Head of Marketing<br><a href=\u0022mailto:sgirard@aip.org\u0022>sgirard@aip.org</a></p>",
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            "news_content": "<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>London, UK &ndash; 19 November 2025 &ndash;&nbsp; AIP Publishing (AIPP) has selected River Valley&rsquo;s&nbsp;<strong>ReView 3.0, the next-generation submission and peer review platform</strong>, to manage the AIP Conference Proceedings program following a rigorous Request for Information (RFI) and Request for Proposal (RFP) process and a successful multi-conference pilot.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>During the evaluation, AIPP trialled ReView 3.0 across several live conferences, confirming significant reductions in both editorial turnaround times and administrative workload. The platform&rsquo;s robust workflow automation and intuitive interface delivered measurable efficiency gains, aligning with AIPP&rsquo;s strategic goals for operational scalability and publishing integrity.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>&ldquo;<em>We are delighted to partner with AIPP on this major implementation</em>,&rdquo; said Maryam Bazargan, CEO of River Valley Technologies. &ldquo;<em>ReView 3.0 was built with efficiency, transparency, and flexibility in mind &ndash; values we share with AIPP. Their selection validates our vision for the future of scholarly publishing.</em>&rdquo;</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>Designed for publishers managing high volumes of submissions, ReView 3.0 offers content-agnostic workflows, full audit trails, a real-time dashboard, and configurable peer review models. Editors, authors, and conference organizers all benefit from a streamlined, role-specific user experience.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>The platform is also integrated with River Valley&rsquo;s Integrated Research Integrity Checker &ndash; a configurable suite of tools (both in-house and third-party) that helps flag ethical concerns such as plagiarism, excessive self-citation, tortured phrases, and statistical anomalies. Embedded directly within the submission workflow, it ensures early and efficient detection while adapting to AIPP&rsquo;s editorial policies.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>&ldquo;<em>ReView 3.0 will help us streamline workflows and strengthen research integrity across our Conference Proceedings program</em>,&rdquo; said Bridget D&rsquo;Amelio, Director of Publishing Development at AIP Publishing. &ldquo;<em>It&rsquo;s an important step in improving the experience for editors and authors while upholding the quality and trust that define AIP Publishing</em>.&rdquo;</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>Recognized with&nbsp;<strong>Gold at the 2025 SSP EPIC Awards</strong>, River Valley&rsquo;s ReView 3.0 is quickly gaining traction among scholarly publishers and societies as a flexible, future-ready platform that unifies submission management, research integrity, and production workflows.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022><strong>About River Valley Technologies</strong><br>For over 35 years, River Valley has been dedicated to enhancing research communication through innovative technology, including the world&rsquo;s first fully XML-based end-to-end publishing system. Its mission is to transform the journey from research to publication into an efficient, transparent, and accessible process.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>River Valley&rsquo;s solutions are designed to empower publishers and societies to reduce the time and cost of publishing, and to streamline every stage of the publishing process. With head office in London and offices in India, River Valley supports clients across EMEA, the USA, and Asia. Clients include The IET, Emerald Publishing, American Physical Society, The British Academy and GigaScience</p>\r\n<p><strong>Contact:</strong><br><a href=\u0022mailto:info@rivervalley.io\u0022>info@rivervalley.io</a></p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022><strong>About AIP Publishing</strong><br>AIP Publishing&rsquo;s mission is to advance, promote, and serve the physical sciences for the benefit of humanity by breaking barriers to open, fair research communication and empowering researchers to accelerate global progress.&nbsp;<a href=\u0022https://publishing.aip.org/\u0022>AIP Publishing</a>&nbsp;is a wholly owned not-for-profit subsidiary of the&nbsp;<a href=\u0022https://www.aip.org/\u0022>American Institute of Physics</a>&nbsp;(AIP) and supports the charitable, scientific, and educational purposes of AIP through scholarly publishing activities on its behalf and on behalf of our publishing partners.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022><strong>Contact:</strong><br>Sara Girard, Head of Marketing<br><a href=\u0022mailto:sgirard@aip.org\u0022>sgirard@aip.org</a></p>",
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            "news_title": "AIP Publishing Selects River Valley\u2019s ReView 3.0 to Power their Conference Proceedings Program After Competitive RFP",
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            "temp_new_content": "<p>London, 4 November 2025 - River Valley Technologies, a leader in transformative XML-based, end-to-end publishing solutions, expands their customized reporting tools,&nbsp;<strong>DARVi</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>ReView&rsquo;s custom reporting</strong>, designed to eliminate data silos and give publishers real-time insight across all stages of the publishing workflow.</p>\r\n<p>Built to consolidate data from both River Valley and third-party systems, the tools offer a unified reporting experience, transforming fragmented datasets into actionable intelligence.</p>\r\n<p><strong>DARVi</strong>&nbsp;(Data Analytics, Reporting and Visualisation) is a live data dashboard that pulls real-time data from River Valley&rsquo;s peer review, production and hosting platforms, as well as external systems including third-party peer review systems or production data. Clients can access reports via live interactive dashboards or export raw data for deeper analysis.</p>\r\n<p>&ldquo;<em>Our reporting tools help editorial and publishing teams save time and make informed, data-driven decisions aligned with their goals</em>,&rdquo; said Maryam Bazargan, CEO of River Valley Technologies.</p>\r\n<p>Complementing DARVi, ReView, the&nbsp;<strong>winner of the SSP 2025 EPIC Awards for&nbsp;<a href=\u0022https://rivervalley.io/news/river-valley-wins-gold-for-review-3-next-generation-submission-and-peer-review-platform\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022 data-saferedirecturl=\u0022https://www.google.com/url?q=https://rivervalley.io/news/river-valley-wins-gold-for-review-3-next-generation-submission-and-peer-review-platform&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1762402636802000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1bTHqOwa5cpyuTz3bZFKDH\u0022>submission and peer review platforms</a></strong>, offers robust Custom Reporting capabilities, empowering clients to access, view and analyze their data. The custom reporting allows users to create, save and manage ad hoc reports, extracting any data from the systems. This includes leveraging unique data points collected through River Valley&rsquo;s world-class custom form technology, making it easy for clients to track metrics that align with their KPIs and editorial workflows.</p>\r\n<p>&ldquo;<em>In today&rsquo;s fast-paced environment, organizations can&rsquo;t afford to make decisions based on fragmented or outdated data,&rdquo; said Dave Allen, Senior Partner at A&amp;M Editorial Solutions. &ldquo;With ReView and DARVi, River Valley turns data access into a strategic advantage</em>.&rdquo;</p>\r\n<p>Key features:</p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 role=\u0022presentation\u0022><strong>Live data:</strong>&nbsp;Persistent, real-time reporting environment by pulling data from multiple internal and third-party sources.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n<li dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 role=\u0022presentation\u0022><strong>Data Consolidation:</strong>&nbsp;Clients can pull data from multiple platforms into single, unified report series.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n<li dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 role=\u0022presentation\u0022><strong>Custom Reporting Tool:</strong>&nbsp;Flexibility to create and save unlimited ad hoc reports.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n<li dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 role=\u0022presentation\u0022><strong>Custom Form Integration:</strong>&nbsp;Extract all data, including those highly specific metrics collected via custom forms, for maximum report customization.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p><strong>About River Valley Technologies</strong></p>\r\n<p>For over 35 years, River Valley has been dedicated to enhancing research communication through innovative technology, including the world&rsquo;s first fully XML-based end-to-end publishing system. Its mission is to transform the journey from research to publication into an efficient, transparent and accessible process.</p>\r\n<p>River Valley&rsquo;s solutions are designed to empower publishers and societies to reduce the time and cost of publishing and to streamline every stage of the publishing process. With head office in London and offices in India,&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>River Valley supports clients across EMEA, the USA and Asia. Clients include The IET, Emerald Publishing, American Physical Society, and GigaScience Press.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>Email:&nbsp;<a href=\u0022mailto:info@rivervalley.io\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>info@rivervalley.io</a></p>",
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            "news_content": "<p>London, 4 November 2025 - River Valley Technologies, a leader in transformative XML-based, end-to-end publishing solutions, expands their customized reporting tools,&nbsp;<strong>DARVi</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>ReView&rsquo;s custom reporting</strong>, designed to eliminate data silos and give publishers real-time insight across all stages of the publishing workflow.</p>\r\n<p>Built to consolidate data from both River Valley and third-party systems, the tools offer a unified reporting experience, transforming fragmented datasets into actionable intelligence.</p>\r\n<p><strong>DARVi</strong>&nbsp;(Data Analytics, Reporting and Visualisation) is a live data dashboard that pulls real-time data from River Valley&rsquo;s peer review, production and hosting platforms, as well as external systems including third-party peer review systems or production data. Clients can access reports via live interactive dashboards or export raw data for deeper analysis.</p>\r\n<p>&ldquo;<em>Our reporting tools help editorial and publishing teams save time and make informed, data-driven decisions aligned with their goals</em>,&rdquo; said Maryam Bazargan, CEO of River Valley Technologies.</p>\r\n<p>Complementing DARVi, ReView, the&nbsp;<strong>winner of the SSP 2025 EPIC Awards for&nbsp;<a href=\u0022https://rivervalley.io/news/river-valley-wins-gold-for-review-3-next-generation-submission-and-peer-review-platform\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022 data-saferedirecturl=\u0022https://www.google.com/url?q=https://rivervalley.io/news/river-valley-wins-gold-for-review-3-next-generation-submission-and-peer-review-platform&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1762402636802000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1bTHqOwa5cpyuTz3bZFKDH\u0022>submission and peer review platforms</a></strong>, offers robust Custom Reporting capabilities, empowering clients to access, view and analyze their data. The custom reporting allows users to create, save and manage ad hoc reports, extracting any data from the systems. This includes leveraging unique data points collected through River Valley&rsquo;s world-class custom form technology, making it easy for clients to track metrics that align with their KPIs and editorial workflows.</p>\r\n<p>&ldquo;<em>In today&rsquo;s fast-paced environment, organizations can&rsquo;t afford to make decisions based on fragmented or outdated data,&rdquo; said Dave Allen, Senior Partner at A&amp;M Editorial Solutions. &ldquo;With ReView and DARVi, River Valley turns data access into a strategic advantage</em>.&rdquo;</p>\r\n<p>Key features:</p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 role=\u0022presentation\u0022><strong>Live data:</strong>&nbsp;Persistent, real-time reporting environment by pulling data from multiple internal and third-party sources.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n<li dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 role=\u0022presentation\u0022><strong>Data Consolidation:</strong>&nbsp;Clients can pull data from multiple platforms into single, unified report series.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n<li dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 role=\u0022presentation\u0022><strong>Custom Reporting Tool:</strong>&nbsp;Flexibility to create and save unlimited ad hoc reports.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n<li dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 role=\u0022presentation\u0022><strong>Custom Form Integration:</strong>&nbsp;Extract all data, including those highly specific metrics collected via custom forms, for maximum report customization.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p><strong>About River Valley Technologies</strong></p>\r\n<p>For over 35 years, River Valley has been dedicated to enhancing research communication through innovative technology, including the world&rsquo;s first fully XML-based end-to-end publishing system. Its mission is to transform the journey from research to publication into an efficient, transparent and accessible process.</p>\r\n<p>River Valley&rsquo;s solutions are designed to empower publishers and societies to reduce the time and cost of publishing and to streamline every stage of the publishing process. With head office in London and offices in India,&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>River Valley supports clients across EMEA, the USA and Asia. Clients include The IET, Emerald Publishing, American Physical Society, and GigaScience Press.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>Email:&nbsp;<a href=\u0022mailto:info@rivervalley.io\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>info@rivervalley.io</a></p>",
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            "temp_new_content": "<p>29 May 2025, Baltimore, USA</p>\r\n<div style=\u0022display: flex; flex-direction: row; gap: 20px; align-items: flex-start; margin-bottom: 20px; line-height: 1.6; color: #333;\u0022><!-- Left Column -->\r\n<div style=\u0022width: 50%;\u0022>\r\n<p>River Valley Technologies won Gold at the 2025 EPIC Awards, presented by the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP). ReView 3.0 was nominated for consideration in the Submission System Feature. The&nbsp;<a href=\u0022https://www.sspnet.org/community/news/announcing-winners-for-the-2025-epic-awards/#:~:text=Gold%20%E2%80%A2%20River%20Valley%20Technologies%20%E2%80%93%20ReView%203.0:%20Next%20Generation%20Peer%20Review\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>EPIC Awards</a> recognize and celebrate remarkable teams and individuals in the publishing, information technology, and communications sectors for their significant contributions to scholarly communication through innovation, creativity, and dedication.</p>\r\n</div>\r\n<!-- Right Column -->\r\n<div style=\u0022width: 50%; text-align: center;\u0022><img style=\u0022max-width: 100%;\u0022 src=\u0022https://staging-rvt.rivervalleytechnologies.in/admin/backend/storage/app/public/uploads/news_content/ssp_epic_award.png\u0022 alt=\u0022 Image\u0022 width=\u0022358\u0022 height=\u0022188\u0022>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>",
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            "temp_new_content": "<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>21 May 2025, London, UK</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>River Valley Technologies has released its Research Integrity Dashboard, incorporating a suite of third party tools, as well as River Valley&rsquo;s own Research Integrity Checker. The configurable system is fully built into River Valley&rsquo;s award winning submission and peer review system, ReView 3.0.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>The Dashboard can be customized by publisher, journal, or even article type, ensuring all appropriate checks are carried out. These include third party tools such as&nbsp;<strong>ImageTwin</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Clear Skies</strong>. The consolidated results are displayed within a single user-friendly interface.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>The integration into ReView 3.0 allows publishers and Editorial offices to check submitted content automatically or&nbsp;<em>ad hoc</em>&nbsp;and at any stage, including submission, revision, and even in the production stage. The checks are run in parallel in the background, minimizing disruption to users.The Dashboard can also be used independently of ReView, or can be integrated with third party platforms.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>Key features of the Research Integrity Dashboard include:</p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 aria-level=\u00221\u0022>Detection of plagiarism and duplicate submission</li>\r\n<li dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 aria-level=\u00221\u0022>Citation verification</li>\r\n<li dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 aria-level=\u00221\u0022>Analysis of authors and affiliations</li>\r\n<li dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 aria-level=\u00221\u0022>Forensic analysis of body text</li>\r\n<li dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 aria-level=\u00221\u0022>Suspicious self-citation patterns</li>\r\n<li dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 aria-level=\u00221\u0022>Granular analysis of references</li>\r\n<li dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 aria-level=\u00221\u0022>Detection of AI-generated content</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>River Valley has been active in the research integrity area for some years, having already submitted some&nbsp;<strong>4000 animations of questionable images on PubPeer</strong>. This experience together with 35 years of publishing innovation and knowledge of scholarly content means that River Valley Technologies is uniquely positioned to help maintain ethical publishing. The Research Integrity Dashboard integrates seamlessly with existing workflows, offering both large and small publishers a scalable, customizable approach to safeguarding research ethics.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>River Valley&rsquo;s Kaveh Bazargan commented: \u0022<em>Research integrity has never been more critical to the academic community. Publishers are under immense pressure to maintain high standards of ethical publishing while handling an increasing volume of submissions. Our Research Integrity Dashboard is designed to meet that challenge head-on, offering a robust, scalable solution that supports the integrity of research communication from start to finish. River Valley&rsquo;s experience of handling complex scholarly content gives us a major advantage in spotting anomalies</em>\u0022</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>ReView 3.0 has been selected as a&nbsp;<strong>finalist in the SSP 2025 EPIC Awards</strong>. The Research Integrity Dashboard is a continuously evolving tool, helping maintain trust, reliability, and reproducibility in scholarly communication.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022><strong>About River Valley Technologies</strong></p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>For over 35 years, River Valley has been dedicated to enhancing research communication through innovative technology, including the world&rsquo;s first fully XML-based end-to-end publishing system. Its mission is to transform the journey from research to publication into an efficient, transparent, and accessible process.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>River Valley&rsquo;s solutions are designed to empower publishers and societies to reduce the time and cost of publishing, and to streamline every stage of the publishing process. With head office in London and offices in India, River Valley supports clients across EMEA, the USA and Asia. Clients include The IET, Emerald Publishing, American Physical Society, and GigaScience Press.&nbsp;<a href=\u0022http://www.rivervalley.io/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>www.rivervalley.io</a></p>",
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            "news_content": "<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>21 May 2025, London, UK</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>River Valley Technologies has released its Research Integrity Dashboard, incorporating a suite of third party tools, as well as River Valley&rsquo;s own Research Integrity Checker. The configurable system is fully built into River Valley&rsquo;s award winning submission and peer review system, ReView 3.0.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>The Dashboard can be customized by publisher, journal, or even article type, ensuring all appropriate checks are carried out. These include third party tools such as&nbsp;<strong>ImageTwin</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Clear Skies</strong>. The consolidated results are displayed within a single user-friendly interface.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>The integration into ReView 3.0 allows publishers and Editorial offices to check submitted content automatically or&nbsp;<em>ad hoc</em>&nbsp;and at any stage, including submission, revision, and even in the production stage. The checks are run in parallel in the background, minimizing disruption to users.The Dashboard can also be used independently of ReView, or can be integrated with third party platforms.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>Key features of the Research Integrity Dashboard include:</p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 aria-level=\u00221\u0022>Detection of plagiarism and duplicate submission</li>\r\n<li dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 aria-level=\u00221\u0022>Citation verification</li>\r\n<li dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 aria-level=\u00221\u0022>Analysis of authors and affiliations</li>\r\n<li dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 aria-level=\u00221\u0022>Forensic analysis of body text</li>\r\n<li dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 aria-level=\u00221\u0022>Suspicious self-citation patterns</li>\r\n<li dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 aria-level=\u00221\u0022>Granular analysis of references</li>\r\n<li dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 aria-level=\u00221\u0022>Detection of AI-generated content</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>River Valley has been active in the research integrity area for some years, having already submitted some&nbsp;<strong>4000 animations of questionable images on PubPeer</strong>. This experience together with 35 years of publishing innovation and knowledge of scholarly content means that River Valley Technologies is uniquely positioned to help maintain ethical publishing. The Research Integrity Dashboard integrates seamlessly with existing workflows, offering both large and small publishers a scalable, customizable approach to safeguarding research ethics.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>River Valley&rsquo;s Kaveh Bazargan commented: \u0022<em>Research integrity has never been more critical to the academic community. Publishers are under immense pressure to maintain high standards of ethical publishing while handling an increasing volume of submissions. Our Research Integrity Dashboard is designed to meet that challenge head-on, offering a robust, scalable solution that supports the integrity of research communication from start to finish. River Valley&rsquo;s experience of handling complex scholarly content gives us a major advantage in spotting anomalies</em>\u0022</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>ReView 3.0 has been selected as a&nbsp;<strong>finalist in the SSP 2025 EPIC Awards</strong>. The Research Integrity Dashboard is a continuously evolving tool, helping maintain trust, reliability, and reproducibility in scholarly communication.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022><strong>About River Valley Technologies</strong></p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>For over 35 years, River Valley has been dedicated to enhancing research communication through innovative technology, including the world&rsquo;s first fully XML-based end-to-end publishing system. Its mission is to transform the journey from research to publication into an efficient, transparent, and accessible process.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>River Valley&rsquo;s solutions are designed to empower publishers and societies to reduce the time and cost of publishing, and to streamline every stage of the publishing process. With head office in London and offices in India, River Valley supports clients across EMEA, the USA and Asia. Clients include The IET, Emerald Publishing, American Physical Society, and GigaScience Press.&nbsp;<a href=\u0022http://www.rivervalley.io/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>www.rivervalley.io</a></p>",
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            "temp_new_content": "<p>May 2025 &mdash; GigaScience Press&rsquo; journal&nbsp;<em>GigaByte</em> has been awarded one of the first CrossRef MetaData Awards, highlighting the Press as a leader in providing essential information to facilitate discovery, identification, and details of online research articles.</p>\r\n<div style=\u0022display: flex; flex-direction: row; gap: 20px; align-items: flex-start; margin-bottom: 20px; line-height: 1.6; color: #333;\u0022><!-- Left Column -->\r\n<div style=\u0022width: 50%;\u0022>\r\n<p>GigaScience Press is a winner of The inaugural Crossref Metadata Awards, recognising efforts in scholarly publishing metadata completeness and enrichment in their journal, GigaByte. Thanks to River Valley Technology&rsquo;s state-of-the-art publishing platform, the journal was selected amongst over the nearly 150,000 journals from 22,000 members using Crossref infrastructure for having the highest metadata completeness in the small publishers category.</p>\r\n</div>\r\n<!-- Right Column -->\r\n<div style=\u0022width: 50%; text-align: center;\u0022><img style=\u0022max-width: 100%;\u0022 src=\u0022https://staging-rvt.rivervalleytechnologies.in/admin/backend/storage/app/public/uploads/news_content/MetadataAward.jpg\u0022 alt=\u0022 Image\u0022 width=\u0022358\u0022 height=\u0022201\u0022>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div style=\u0022width: 100%;\u0022>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>Presented for the first time at the Crossref Midyear community meeting, the award recognises a commitment to high-quality metadata for the works published and leadership in this domain among Crossref members. Now celebrating its 25th year, Crossref is a not-for-profit organization that helps the global scholarly research community record and connect knowledge through managing metadata for various research objects like articles, books, and datasets. With the primary goal to make research easier to find, cite, link, assess, and reuse.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>As an Open Science publisher, GigaScience press has worked hard to provide open, rich and reusable metadata to address the broader goals of open science and promote a more transparent research ecosystem. Richer metadata makes content more useful, improving discoverability by humans and machines. Making their high-quality peer-reviewed content more ready for artificial intelligence tools in this manner, GigaScience press also sharing their open content via a data mining portal to facilitate and encourage text and data mining (see:&nbsp;<a href=\u0022https://gigabytejournal.com/text-and-data-mining\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>https://gigabytejournal.com/text-and-data-mining</a>)</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>These features have only been possible thanks to River Valley Technologies' novel XML-first platform which is able to better capture richer metadata and content. This is linked to machine readable text and persistent identifiers (PIDs), along with the supporting research data and the code to dynamic features in the published papers such as interactive figures. As well as improving the readability and accessibility for machines. The platform improves this for humans with integrated multi-lingual support and the ability to view the article in dyslexic-friendly fonts.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>To enable these many features metadata quality is an area GigaScience Press have been particularly focussed on, and they are honoured by this recognition. In his acceptance speech at the prize announcement,&nbsp;<em>GigaByte</em>&nbsp;Chief Editor Scott Edmunds saying:</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>&ldquo;I would particularly like to thank our technical partners at RiverValley Technologies for their very hard work in addressing our exacting standards, their novel publishing platform has been key to all of this.&rdquo;</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>Maryam Bazargan, CEO at River Valley Technologies commented: &ldquo;We are proud to have contributed to GigaScience Press's success in winning this award. Our partnership with GigaScience Press has enabled us to push the boundaries of scholarly publishing. Together, we have delivered a fast, accurate, and cost-effective publishing solution.&rdquo;</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>There were six categories in these first Crossref Metadata Awards, with GigaScience Press winning the most competitive small members category (organisations of less than 1 million USD of publishing revenue or expenses). GigaScience Press won thanks to its 82% coverage of key metadata elements across their records for their&nbsp;<em>GigaByte</em>&nbsp;journal, this being higher than any other small publisher, and second highest over all the categories.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>This focus on high-quality metadata has meant&nbsp;<em>GigaByte</em>&nbsp;has also achieved the DOAJ Seal for journals that demonstrate best practice in open access publishing, and was quickly and easily mirrored and listed in publishing indexes such as PubMed Central, Scopus and Web of Science. This high quality metadata has also enabled easier integration with numerous third-party technical platforms, including OA Switchboard.&nbsp;<em>GigaByte</em>&nbsp;was also a winner of the 2022 ALPSP Award for Innovation in Scholarly Publishing.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>Building upon this award and recognition and furthering its partnership with River Valley, GigaScience Press is planning the launch of further journals. The team will also be offering a cost-effective and interactive solution for other journals that want to benefit from GigaScience Press&rsquo;s expertise to improve their own publication workflows in a similarly high-quality and Open Science friendly manner.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022><strong>About GigaScience Press</strong></p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>GigaScience Press is BGI&rsquo;s Open Access Publishing division, which publishes scientific journals and data. Its publishing projects are carried out with international publishing partners and infrastructure providers, including Oxford University Press and River Valley Technologies. It currently publishes two award-winning data-centric journals: its premier journal&nbsp;<a href=\u0022http://gigasciencejournal.com/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>GigaScience</a>&nbsp;(launched in 2012), which won the 2018 American Publishers PROSE award for innovation in journal publishing, and its new journal&nbsp;<em><a href=\u0022http://gigabytejournal.com/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>GigaByte</a></em>&nbsp;(launched 2020), which won the 2022 ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing. It also publishes data, software, and other research objects via its&nbsp;<a href=\u0022http://gigadb.org/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>GigaDB.org</a>&nbsp;database. To encourage transparent reporting of scientific research and to enable future access and analyses, it is a requirement of manuscript submission to all GigaScience Press journals that all supporting data and source code be made openly available in GigaDB or in a community approved, publicly available repository.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022><strong>About GigaByte</strong></p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>GigaByte provides a way to rapidly and cost-effectively share research, making the scientific process more inclusive and accessible to the broader community. It uses an exclusively XML-based publishing system that automates the production process and makes it effortless to change views, languages and embed interactive content. Enabling readers to directly interact with the underlying data and software allows immediate use of published research, improves reproducibility, and increases trust. Upon acceptance this system converts manuscripts to online &ndash; and PDF-ready articles within hours with minimal human intervention, dramatically reducing production time and cost to provide an equitable solution to publish open science.&nbsp;<a href=\u0022https://gigabytejournal.com/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>https://gigabytejournal.com/</a></p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022><strong>About River Valley Technologies</strong></p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>For over 35 years, River Valley has been dedicated to enhancing research communication through innovative technology, including the world&rsquo;s first fully XML-based end-to-end system. Our mission is to transform the journey from research to publication into an efficient, transparent, and accessible process.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>By empowering publishers and societies to reduce publishing time and costs, River Valley aims to accelerate the dissemination of research while upholding the highest standards of integrity.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>Our cloud-based platforms are designed to streamline every stage of the publishing process - from author submission and peer review to production and hosting - with adaptable and XML-first workflows that meet the evolving needs of the publishing landscape.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>With head office in London and offices in India, River Valley supports clients across EMEA, the USA and Asia. Clients include The IET, Emerald Publishing, American Physical Society, and GigaScience Press.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022><a href=\u0022http://www.rivervalley.io/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>www.rivervalley.io</a></p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>Contact: Maryam@rivervalley.io</p>\r\n</div>",
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            "news_content": "<p>May 2025 &mdash; GigaScience Press&rsquo; journal&nbsp;<em>GigaByte</em> has been awarded one of the first CrossRef MetaData Awards, highlighting the Press as a leader in providing essential information to facilitate discovery, identification, and details of online research articles.</p>\r\n<div style=\u0022display: flex; flex-direction: row; gap: 20px; align-items: flex-start; margin-bottom: 20px; line-height: 1.6; color: #333;\u0022><!-- Left Column -->\r\n<div style=\u0022width: 50%;\u0022>\r\n<p>GigaScience Press is a winner of The inaugural Crossref Metadata Awards, recognising efforts in scholarly publishing metadata completeness and enrichment in their journal, GigaByte. Thanks to River Valley Technology&rsquo;s state-of-the-art publishing platform, the journal was selected amongst over the nearly 150,000 journals from 22,000 members using Crossref infrastructure for having the highest metadata completeness in the small publishers category.</p>\r\n</div>\r\n<!-- Right Column -->\r\n<div style=\u0022width: 50%; text-align: center;\u0022><img style=\u0022max-width: 100%;\u0022 src=\u0022https://staging-rvt.rivervalleytechnologies.in/admin/backend/storage/app/public/uploads/news_content/MetadataAward.jpg\u0022 alt=\u0022 Image\u0022 width=\u0022358\u0022 height=\u0022201\u0022>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div style=\u0022width: 100%;\u0022>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>Presented for the first time at the Crossref Midyear community meeting, the award recognises a commitment to high-quality metadata for the works published and leadership in this domain among Crossref members. Now celebrating its 25th year, Crossref is a not-for-profit organization that helps the global scholarly research community record and connect knowledge through managing metadata for various research objects like articles, books, and datasets. With the primary goal to make research easier to find, cite, link, assess, and reuse.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>As an Open Science publisher, GigaScience press has worked hard to provide open, rich and reusable metadata to address the broader goals of open science and promote a more transparent research ecosystem. Richer metadata makes content more useful, improving discoverability by humans and machines. Making their high-quality peer-reviewed content more ready for artificial intelligence tools in this manner, GigaScience press also sharing their open content via a data mining portal to facilitate and encourage text and data mining (see:&nbsp;<a href=\u0022https://gigabytejournal.com/text-and-data-mining\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>https://gigabytejournal.com/text-and-data-mining</a>)</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>These features have only been possible thanks to River Valley Technologies' novel XML-first platform which is able to better capture richer metadata and content. This is linked to machine readable text and persistent identifiers (PIDs), along with the supporting research data and the code to dynamic features in the published papers such as interactive figures. As well as improving the readability and accessibility for machines. The platform improves this for humans with integrated multi-lingual support and the ability to view the article in dyslexic-friendly fonts.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>To enable these many features metadata quality is an area GigaScience Press have been particularly focussed on, and they are honoured by this recognition. In his acceptance speech at the prize announcement,&nbsp;<em>GigaByte</em>&nbsp;Chief Editor Scott Edmunds saying:</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>&ldquo;I would particularly like to thank our technical partners at RiverValley Technologies for their very hard work in addressing our exacting standards, their novel publishing platform has been key to all of this.&rdquo;</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>Maryam Bazargan, CEO at River Valley Technologies commented: &ldquo;We are proud to have contributed to GigaScience Press's success in winning this award. Our partnership with GigaScience Press has enabled us to push the boundaries of scholarly publishing. Together, we have delivered a fast, accurate, and cost-effective publishing solution.&rdquo;</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>There were six categories in these first Crossref Metadata Awards, with GigaScience Press winning the most competitive small members category (organisations of less than 1 million USD of publishing revenue or expenses). GigaScience Press won thanks to its 82% coverage of key metadata elements across their records for their&nbsp;<em>GigaByte</em>&nbsp;journal, this being higher than any other small publisher, and second highest over all the categories.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>This focus on high-quality metadata has meant&nbsp;<em>GigaByte</em>&nbsp;has also achieved the DOAJ Seal for journals that demonstrate best practice in open access publishing, and was quickly and easily mirrored and listed in publishing indexes such as PubMed Central, Scopus and Web of Science. This high quality metadata has also enabled easier integration with numerous third-party technical platforms, including OA Switchboard.&nbsp;<em>GigaByte</em>&nbsp;was also a winner of the 2022 ALPSP Award for Innovation in Scholarly Publishing.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>Building upon this award and recognition and furthering its partnership with River Valley, GigaScience Press is planning the launch of further journals. The team will also be offering a cost-effective and interactive solution for other journals that want to benefit from GigaScience Press&rsquo;s expertise to improve their own publication workflows in a similarly high-quality and Open Science friendly manner.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022><strong>About GigaScience Press</strong></p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>GigaScience Press is BGI&rsquo;s Open Access Publishing division, which publishes scientific journals and data. Its publishing projects are carried out with international publishing partners and infrastructure providers, including Oxford University Press and River Valley Technologies. It currently publishes two award-winning data-centric journals: its premier journal&nbsp;<a href=\u0022http://gigasciencejournal.com/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>GigaScience</a>&nbsp;(launched in 2012), which won the 2018 American Publishers PROSE award for innovation in journal publishing, and its new journal&nbsp;<em><a href=\u0022http://gigabytejournal.com/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>GigaByte</a></em>&nbsp;(launched 2020), which won the 2022 ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing. It also publishes data, software, and other research objects via its&nbsp;<a href=\u0022http://gigadb.org/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>GigaDB.org</a>&nbsp;database. To encourage transparent reporting of scientific research and to enable future access and analyses, it is a requirement of manuscript submission to all GigaScience Press journals that all supporting data and source code be made openly available in GigaDB or in a community approved, publicly available repository.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022><strong>About GigaByte</strong></p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>GigaByte provides a way to rapidly and cost-effectively share research, making the scientific process more inclusive and accessible to the broader community. It uses an exclusively XML-based publishing system that automates the production process and makes it effortless to change views, languages and embed interactive content. Enabling readers to directly interact with the underlying data and software allows immediate use of published research, improves reproducibility, and increases trust. Upon acceptance this system converts manuscripts to online &ndash; and PDF-ready articles within hours with minimal human intervention, dramatically reducing production time and cost to provide an equitable solution to publish open science.&nbsp;<a href=\u0022https://gigabytejournal.com/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>https://gigabytejournal.com/</a></p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022><strong>About River Valley Technologies</strong></p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>For over 35 years, River Valley has been dedicated to enhancing research communication through innovative technology, including the world&rsquo;s first fully XML-based end-to-end system. Our mission is to transform the journey from research to publication into an efficient, transparent, and accessible process.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>By empowering publishers and societies to reduce publishing time and costs, River Valley aims to accelerate the dissemination of research while upholding the highest standards of integrity.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>Our cloud-based platforms are designed to streamline every stage of the publishing process - from author submission and peer review to production and hosting - with adaptable and XML-first workflows that meet the evolving needs of the publishing landscape.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>With head office in London and offices in India, River Valley supports clients across EMEA, the USA and Asia. 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            "temp_new_content": "<p>April 2025 &mdash; River Valley Technologies has been named a finalist for the 2025 EPIC Awards, presented by the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP).&nbsp;<strong>ReView 3.0: Next Generation Peer Review</strong>&nbsp;has been nominated for consideration in the&nbsp;<strong>Submission System Feature</strong> category, which recognises standout functionalities within manuscript or abstract management systems that improve submission processes for authors, editors, publishers, and staff. Examples include accessibility upgrades, analytics dashboards, and workflow simplifications.</p>\r\n<div style=\u0022display: flex; flex-direction: row; gap: 20px; align-items: flex-start; margin-bottom: 20px; line-height: 1.6; color: #333;\u0022><!-- Left Column -->\r\n<div style=\u0022width: 50%;\u0022>\r\n<p>We set out to build a modern peer review system that streamlines and improves the user journey for authors, editors, reviewers and publishers. We recognise that publishers need robust, modern systems with fast yet reliable and pain-free migration features. This nomination is a welcome recognition of our team&rsquo;s vision and hard work over the last decade &ndash; thank you SSP!&rdquo; said Maryam Bazargan, CEO, River Valley Technologies.</p>\r\n</div>\r\n<!-- Right Column -->\r\n<div style=\u0022width: 50%; text-align: center;\u0022><img style=\u0022max-width: 100%;\u0022 src=\u0022https://staging-rvt.rivervalleytechnologies.in/admin/backend/storage/app/public/uploads/news_content/finalist.png\u0022 alt=\u0022 Image\u0022 width=\u0022358\u0022 height=\u0022188\u0022></div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div style=\u0022width: 100%;\u0022>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022><strong>About River Valley Technologies</strong></p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>For over 35 years, River Valley has been dedicated to enhancing research communication through innovative technology, including the world&rsquo;s first fully XML-based end-to-end system. Our mission is to transform the journey from research to publication into an efficient, transparent, and accessible process.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>By empowering publishers and societies to reduce publishing time and costs, River Valley aims to accelerate the dissemination of research while upholding the highest standards of integrity.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>Our cloud-based platforms are designed to streamline every stage of the publishing process - from author submission and peer review to production and hosting - with adaptable and XML-first workflows that meet the evolving needs of the publishing landscape.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>With head office in London and offices in India, River Valley supports clients across EMEA, the USA and Asia. Clients include The IET, Emerald Publishing, American Physical Society, and GigaScience Press.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022><a href=\u0022http://www.rivervalley.io/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>www.rivervalley.io</a></p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022><strong>About SSP EPIC Awards</strong></p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>The EPIC Awards program recognizes and celebrates remarkable teams and individuals in the publishing, information technology, and communications sectors for their significant contributions to scholarly communication through innovation, creativity, and dedication. By highlighting exceptional work in five key categories&mdash;Tools and Products, Publications, Marketing, Media, and Initiatives&mdash;the program sets a standard for excellence, encouraging others in the industry to push boundaries and achieve new heights.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>The EPIC Awards Celebration and Dinner will be held on May 29, 2025, during the SSP Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD, where finalists will be recognized and winners in each category will be announced. For more information about the awards, please visit SSP&rsquo;s website.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>\u200b\u200b<a href=\u0022https://www.sspnet.org/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>https://www.sspnet.org</a></p>\r\n</div>",
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            "news_content": "<p>April 2025 &mdash; River Valley Technologies has been named a finalist for the 2025 EPIC Awards, presented by the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP).&nbsp;<strong>ReView 3.0: Next Generation Peer Review</strong>&nbsp;has been nominated for consideration in the&nbsp;<strong>Submission System Feature</strong> category, which recognises standout functionalities within manuscript or abstract management systems that improve submission processes for authors, editors, publishers, and staff. Examples include accessibility upgrades, analytics dashboards, and workflow simplifications.</p>\r\n<div style=\u0022display: flex; flex-direction: row; gap: 20px; align-items: flex-start; margin-bottom: 20px; line-height: 1.6; color: #333;\u0022><!-- Left Column -->\r\n<div style=\u0022width: 50%;\u0022>\r\n<p>We set out to build a modern peer review system that streamlines and improves the user journey for authors, editors, reviewers and publishers. We recognise that publishers need robust, modern systems with fast yet reliable and pain-free migration features. This nomination is a welcome recognition of our team&rsquo;s vision and hard work over the last decade &ndash; thank you SSP!&rdquo; said Maryam Bazargan, CEO, River Valley Technologies.</p>\r\n</div>\r\n<!-- Right Column -->\r\n<div style=\u0022width: 50%; text-align: center;\u0022><img style=\u0022max-width: 100%;\u0022 src=\u0022https://staging-rvt.rivervalleytechnologies.in/admin/backend/storage/app/public/uploads/news_content/finalist.png\u0022 alt=\u0022 Image\u0022 width=\u0022358\u0022 height=\u0022188\u0022></div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div style=\u0022width: 100%;\u0022>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022><strong>About River Valley Technologies</strong></p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>For over 35 years, River Valley has been dedicated to enhancing research communication through innovative technology, including the world&rsquo;s first fully XML-based end-to-end system. Our mission is to transform the journey from research to publication into an efficient, transparent, and accessible process.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>By empowering publishers and societies to reduce publishing time and costs, River Valley aims to accelerate the dissemination of research while upholding the highest standards of integrity.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>Our cloud-based platforms are designed to streamline every stage of the publishing process - from author submission and peer review to production and hosting - with adaptable and XML-first workflows that meet the evolving needs of the publishing landscape.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>With head office in London and offices in India, River Valley supports clients across EMEA, the USA and Asia. Clients include The IET, Emerald Publishing, American Physical Society, and GigaScience Press.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022><a href=\u0022http://www.rivervalley.io/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>www.rivervalley.io</a></p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022><strong>About SSP EPIC Awards</strong></p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>The EPIC Awards program recognizes and celebrates remarkable teams and individuals in the publishing, information technology, and communications sectors for their significant contributions to scholarly communication through innovation, creativity, and dedication. By highlighting exceptional work in five key categories&mdash;Tools and Products, Publications, Marketing, Media, and Initiatives&mdash;the program sets a standard for excellence, encouraging others in the industry to push boundaries and achieve new heights.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>The EPIC Awards Celebration and Dinner will be held on May 29, 2025, during the SSP Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD, where finalists will be recognized and winners in each category will be announced. For more information about the awards, please visit SSP&rsquo;s website.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>\u200b\u200b<a href=\u0022https://www.sspnet.org/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>https://www.sspnet.org</a></p>\r\n</div>",
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            "temp_new_content": "<p><small>8 January 2025, London, UK</small></p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>River Valley Technologies (RVT), a pioneer in scholarly publishing solutions, is proud to announce the official launch of&nbsp;<strong>ReView 3.0</strong>, its cutting-edge submission and peer review platform. With over 35 years of expertise, RVT has continuously invested in its publishing technology solutions.&nbsp;<strong>ReView 3.0</strong> is the latest result of this commitment. 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The system uses plagiarism detection, AI and metadata analysis to pinpoint compromised content.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n<li dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 aria-level=\u00221\u0022>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 role=\u0022presentation\u0022><strong>Annotated Peer Review</strong>: a unique feature that automatically creates full article XML upstream, allowing authors and reviewers to annotate manuscripts directly. This shift helps detect inconsistencies at an earlier stage, enhances the efficacy of peer review, and reduces the cost and time of production.</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h5><strong>A proven solution for leading publishers</strong></h5>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022><strong>ReView, winner of the 2022 ISMTE Innovation award</strong>, has already been embraced by a number of prominent publishers and Editorial offices, including&nbsp;<strong>Emerald Publishing, GigaScience</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Origin Editorial</strong>. 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Over the years, River Valley's team has consistently provided fast and a genuine willingness to collaborate on solutions tailored to our needs.&rdquo;</p>\r\n<h5><strong>A legacy of trust and innovation</strong></h5>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022><strong>Maryam Bazargan</strong>, Director at RVT, commented: &ldquo;ReView 3.0 represents our long-term mission to meet the real-world needs of the scholarly publishing community, delivering time and cost efficiencies at all stages of the publishing process. By collaborating with industry leaders and incorporating extensive user feedback, we built a system that not only enhances workflows but also strengthens the integrity of published research.&rdquo;</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>For more information or to book a demo please visit&nbsp;<a href=\u0022http://www.rivervalley.io/\u0022>www.rivervalley.io</a></p>\r\n<center>&ndash; End &ndash;</center>\r\n<p><strong>About River Valley Technologies</strong></p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>River Valley&rsquo;s mission is to make the journey from research to publication efficient, transparent, and accessible. For over 35 years, River Valley has been dedicated to accelerating the communication of research through pioneering technology, including the world&rsquo;s first &ldquo;pure&rdquo; XML-based, end-to-end solution.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>By enabling publishers and societies to reduce both the time and cost of publishing at scale, River Valley helps bring scientific research to the world faster, while ensuring the highest standards of Research Integrity.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>River Valley continues to develop intuitive, cloud-based platforms that streamline author submission, peer review, production and hosting, leading the way in modern, adaptable publishing workflows that shape the future of research communication.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>With head office in London and offices in India, River Valley supports clients across EMEA, the USA and Asia. 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            "news_content": "<p><small>8 January 2025, London, UK</small></p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>River Valley Technologies (RVT), a pioneer in scholarly publishing solutions, is proud to announce the official launch of&nbsp;<strong>ReView 3.0</strong>, its cutting-edge submission and peer review platform. With over 35 years of expertise, RVT has continuously invested in its publishing technology solutions.&nbsp;<strong>ReView 3.0</strong> is the latest result of this commitment. Developed in close collaboration with industry experts and end-users, the platform introduces innovations that address research integrity and streamline the peer review process.</p>\r\n<h5><strong>Breakthrough Innovations in ReView 3.0</strong></h5>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022><strong>ReView 3.0</strong>&nbsp;introduces several game-changing features designed to raise the standard for peer review management, while ensuring integrity and efficiency:</p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 aria-level=\u00221\u0022>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 role=\u0022presentation\u0022><strong>Integrated Research Integrity checks</strong>: addressing the increasing challenge of research misconduct,&nbsp;<strong>ReView 3.0</strong>&nbsp;integrates advanced tools to detect suspicious or unethical submissions. 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By collaborating with industry leaders and incorporating extensive user feedback, we built a system that not only enhances workflows but also strengthens the integrity of published research.&rdquo;</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>For more information or to book a demo please visit&nbsp;<a href=\u0022http://www.rivervalley.io/\u0022>www.rivervalley.io</a></p>\r\n<center>&ndash; End &ndash;</center>\r\n<p><strong>About River Valley Technologies</strong></p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>River Valley&rsquo;s mission is to make the journey from research to publication efficient, transparent, and accessible. For over 35 years, River Valley has been dedicated to accelerating the communication of research through pioneering technology, including the world&rsquo;s first &ldquo;pure&rdquo; XML-based, end-to-end solution.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>By enabling publishers and societies to reduce both the time and cost of publishing at scale, River Valley helps bring scientific research to the world faster, while ensuring the highest standards of Research Integrity.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>River Valley continues to develop intuitive, cloud-based platforms that streamline author submission, peer review, production and hosting, leading the way in modern, adaptable publishing workflows that shape the future of research communication.</p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022>With head office in London and offices in India, River Valley supports clients across EMEA, the USA and Asia. Clients include The IET, Emerald Publishing, American Physical Society, and GigaScience.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><span dir=\u0022ltr\u0022><br>Contact:&nbsp;<a href=\u0022mailto:Info@rivervalley.io\u0022>Info@rivervalley.io</a></span></p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022><a href=\u0022https://www.rivervalley.io\u0022>www.rivervalley.io</a></p>\r\n<p dir=\u0022ltr\u0022><img style=\u0022display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\u0022 src=\u0022https://staging-rvt.rivervalleytechnologies.in/admin/backend/storage/app/public/uploads/news_content/Screenshot_2022-10-12_at_10.20.56.png\u0022 alt=\u0022\u0022 width=\u0022300\u0022 height=\u0022229\u0022></p>",
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            "temp_new_content": "<p>February 2024 &mdash; The PDF of presentation (with clickable links) given at the above conference by Kaveh Bazargan can be downloaded&nbsp;<a href=\u0022https://drive.google.com/file/d/14kHpiX4L8pUKeiHI4j2qekToRkVNy7qz/view?usp=sharing\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>here</a>.</p>",
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            "temp_new_content": "<p>NEWS RELEASE 26 September 2023</p>\r\n<p><strong>New&nbsp;<em>&ldquo;Publish, Review, Curate&rdquo; models of peer-review on showcased by GigaScience Press Journal</em></strong></p>\r\n<p><img src=\u0022https://staging-rvt.rivervalleytechnologies.in/admin/backend/storage/app/public/uploads/news_content/image1-251x300.png\u0022 alt=\u0022\u0022 width=\u0022251\u0022 height=\u0022300\u0022></p>\r\n<p><em>Timed for Peer Review Week, GigaScience Press are announcing that their GigaByte Journal has integrated a novel &ldquo;Publish, Review, Curate&rdquo; (PRC) peer-review model, in partnership with eLife. Using the Sciety platform GigaByte is now offering a highlighted editor&rsquo;s assessment of each reviewed preprint, this endorsement helps readers gauge the interest and importance of the work, while also throwing light on the review and assessment process of research.</em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>GigaByte</strong>&nbsp;is an Open Science journal that has the principle goal to match the speed of publishing to the speed of research. When it launched in September 2020, it was one of the first journals to mandate the use of preprints, to help increase transparency and speed up the dissemination of research.&nbsp;<strong>GigaByte</strong>&nbsp;then connected their articles to previously published preprint versions by crosslinking and highlighting these links via an Article Information section on their articles. With the rise of preprint peer review and evaluation policies, the logical next step has been to utilise bioRxiv and Sciety integrations that enable the sharing of these open peer reviews on any associated preprint in bioRxiv and medRxiv. We also share these preprint peer reviews in Sciety &ldquo;<em>Reviewing Groups</em>&rdquo; to enable further discoverability and insight for readers.</p>\r\n<p>In a new step,&nbsp;<strong>GigaByte</strong>&nbsp;is now building on this &ldquo;<em>publish then review</em>&rdquo; model of scientific communication by adding an endorsement step by aligning it with&nbsp;<strong>eLife</strong><em>&rsquo;s</em>&nbsp;new &ldquo;<em>publish, review, curate</em>&rdquo; model that puts preprints first. This is done using the new &ldquo;<em>Curating groups</em>&rdquo; feature from Sciety, to distinguish groups that offer some form of assessment/endorsement of a preprint. These Endorsement statements from&nbsp;<strong>GigaByte</strong>&nbsp;featured on this page are also highlighted on the original bioRxiv preprint as well as the associated Sciety article page. Altogether, this helps readers see at a glance why this preprint might be important or interesting.</p>\r\n<p>In January 2023,&nbsp;<strong>eLife</strong>&nbsp;became the first journal to embrace a new scientific publishing model, where every preprint that&nbsp;<strong>eLife</strong>&nbsp;sends for peer review will be published on their website as a &ldquo;<em>Reviewed Preprint</em>&rdquo; together with an assessment, public reviews, and a response from the authors.&nbsp;<strong>GigaByte</strong>&nbsp;is taking a step towards this &ldquo;<em>Publish, Review, Curate</em>&rdquo;&nbsp;<em>(PRC)</em>&nbsp;peer-review model, being the second journal after&nbsp;<strong>eLife</strong>&nbsp;to post these Editorial endorsements in Sciety &ldquo;<em>Curating groups</em>&rdquo;, alongside other evaluating communities such as&nbsp;<strong>Biophysics Colab</strong>.</p>\r\n<p><strong>GigaByte</strong>&nbsp;Chief Editor&nbsp;<strong>Scott Edmunds</strong>&nbsp;comments on this move, saying &ldquo;<em>We&rsquo;d like to thank Sciety for helping us take this step towards meeting our goal of matching the speed of publishing to the speed of research through using their platform</em>&rdquo;.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Kaveh Bazargan</strong>&nbsp;from&nbsp;<strong>GigaScience Press</strong>&nbsp;publishing partner&nbsp;<strong>River Valley Technologies</strong>&nbsp;notes that: &ldquo;<em>River Valley&rsquo;s systems have been built to support the aims as well as the spirit of Open Science. This includes alignment with the UNESCO Open Science Recommendation which specifically promotes innovative approaches such as preprints and open peer review practices, as used here. Our peer review system, ReView, together with our XML-first end-to-end publishing system enables publishing within 24 hours of acceptance. River Valley platforms allow GigaByte to provide fully open data, accessibility and transparency, revealing the pre-publication and open peer review history. It is a pleasure to work with GigaScience Press with whom we continually push the boundaries.</em>&rdquo;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Shane Alsop</strong>, Community Manager &ndash; Outreach,&nbsp;<strong>eLife</strong>, on behalf of the Sciety Team adds to this: &ldquo;<em>We&rsquo;re delighted to be partnering with GigaByte to help facilitate their move towards a &ldquo;publish first, then review&rdquo; model of preprint peer-review.&nbsp;<strong>GigaByte</strong>&nbsp;are now providing an &ldquo;editors assessment&rdquo; statement to accompany each reviewed preprint displayed on Sciety. For the first time, these statements will allow multiple communities to strengthen/scrutinise the findings reported in a preprint through cumulative, post-publication review. This approach not only prioritises the importance of research integrity over publication venue, but combines with more traditional outputs of preprint review to make evaluated preprints a first class research object in their own right.</em></p>\r\n<p><em>Organisations as diverse as&nbsp;<strong>Biophysics CoLab</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>eLife</strong>&nbsp;successfully leverage Sciety to experiment with variations of the &ldquo;PRC&rdquo; model, and&nbsp;<strong>GigaByte</strong>&rsquo;s own transition signifies a pivotal step towards wider adoption of&nbsp;</em><em>&ldquo;PRC&rdquo;</em>. With GigaByte&rsquo;s support, we look forward to collaborating with more journals to catalyse wider adoption of more transparent &ndash; and equitable &ndash; modes of peer review.&rdquo;</p>\r\n<p>As Open Science advocates this is just an incremental move for the journal, but we anticipate taking future steps to support a preprint-based publishing system. As the theme of Peer Review Week this week is &ldquo;<em>Peer Review and The Future of Publishing</em>&rdquo; this is a very timely and practical demonstration of exactly what the future can look like.</p>\r\n<p>Follow GigaByte&rsquo;s curated content on Sciety here:&nbsp;<a href=\u0022https://sciety.org/groups/gigabyte/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>https://sciety.org/groups/gigabyte/</a></p>\r\n<p><strong>Media contacts</strong>:&nbsp;<em>GigaScience</em>&nbsp;Editor-in-Chief: Scott Edmunds,&nbsp;<a href=\u0022mailto:Scott@gigasciencejournal.com\u0022>Scott@gigasciencejournal.com</a>, Office: +852 3610 3531 Cell: +852 92490853<br>Sciety/<em>eLife</em>&nbsp;Community Manager &ndash; Outreach Shane Alsop,&nbsp;<a href=\u0022mailto:shane@sciety.org\u0022>shane@sciety.org</a><br>&nbsp;<br><strong>Sharing on social media</strong>&nbsp;Find&nbsp;<em>GigaByte</em>&nbsp;online on<br>X @GigaByteJournal<br>Facebook<a href=\u0022https://www.facebook.com/GigaScience/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>&nbsp;</a><a href=\u0022https://www.facebook.com/GigaByteJournal/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>https://www.facebook.com/GigaByteJournal/</a>,<br>and keep up-to-date with our blog<a href=\u0022http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>&nbsp;http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/</a></p>\r\n<div class=\u0022single-post-wrap entry-content\u0022>\r\n<div class=\u0022row\u0022>\r\n<div class=\u0022col-md-12\u0022>\r\n<div class=\u0022row\u0022>\r\n<div class=\u0022col-md-12\u0022>\r\n<p><strong>About GigaScience Press</strong></p>\r\n<p><a href=\u0022http://gigasciencepress.com/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>GigaScience Press</a>&nbsp;is BGI&rsquo;s Open Access Publishing division, which publishes scientific journals and data. Its publishing projects are carried out with international publishing partners and infrastructure providers, including Oxford University Press and River Valley Technologies. It currently publishes two award-winning data-centric journals: its premier journal<a href=\u0022http://gigasciencejournal.com/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>&nbsp;<em>GigaScience</em></a>&nbsp;(launched in 2012), which won the 2018 American Publishers PROSE award for innovation in journal publishing, and its new journal<a href=\u0022http://gigabytejournal.com/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>&nbsp;<em>GigaByte</em></a><em>&nbsp;</em>(launched 2020), which won the 2022 ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing. The press also publishes data, software, and other research objects via its<a href=\u0022http://gigadb.org/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>&nbsp;GigaDB.org</a>&nbsp;database. To encourage transparent reporting of scientific research and to enable future access and analyses, it is a requirement of manuscript submission to all GigaScience Press journals that all supporting data and source code be made openly available in GigaDB or in a community approved, publicly available repository.</p>\r\n<p><strong>About River Valley Technologies</strong></p>\r\n<p>River Valley&rsquo;s mission is to accelerate the communication of research through automation and easy-to-use publishing platforms. These help societies and publishers manage and deliver their content more efficiently and more cost-effectively. Developed in-house from the ground up, River Valley&rsquo;s platforms address the pain points felt by all stakeholders, from researchers preparing their manuscripts to publishers requiring perfect XML and immediate access to underlying data. River Valley was established in 1988 with the mission of delivering cutting edge solutions to academic publishers. Some 10 years ago, the company pioneered the first fully XML driven online authoring system and today boasts a number of publishing platforms. Together they deliver a fully automated end-to-end solution, including submission and peer review, XML-based authoring, and content hosting. With head office in London and offices in India, River Valley supports clients across EMEA, the USA and Asia. Clients include The IET, IOS Press, American Physical Society, The Sphere Association and GigaScience&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Press</strong>:&nbsp;<a href=\u0022http://www.rivervalley.io/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>www.rivervalley.io</a><br><strong>Contact</strong>:&nbsp;<a href=\u0022mailto:Maryam@rivervalley.io\u0022>Maryam@rivervalley.io</a></p>\r\n<p><img style=\u0022display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\u0022 src=\u0022https://staging-rvt.rivervalleytechnologies.in/admin/backend/storage/app/public/uploads/news_content/Screenshot_2022-10-12_at_10.20.56.png\u0022 alt=\u0022\u0022 width=\u0022300\u0022 height=\u0022229\u0022></p>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>",
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            "news_content": "<p>NEWS RELEASE 26 September 2023</p>\r\n<p><strong>New&nbsp;<em>&ldquo;Publish, Review, Curate&rdquo; models of peer-review on showcased by GigaScience Press Journal</em></strong></p>\r\n<p><img src=\u0022https://staging-rvt.rivervalleytechnologies.in/admin/backend/storage/app/public/uploads/news_content/image1-251x300.png\u0022 alt=\u0022\u0022 width=\u0022251\u0022 height=\u0022300\u0022></p>\r\n<p><em>Timed for Peer Review Week, GigaScience Press are announcing that their GigaByte Journal has integrated a novel &ldquo;Publish, Review, Curate&rdquo; (PRC) peer-review model, in partnership with eLife. Using the Sciety platform GigaByte is now offering a highlighted editor&rsquo;s assessment of each reviewed preprint, this endorsement helps readers gauge the interest and importance of the work, while also throwing light on the review and assessment process of research.</em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>GigaByte</strong>&nbsp;is an Open Science journal that has the principle goal to match the speed of publishing to the speed of research. When it launched in September 2020, it was one of the first journals to mandate the use of preprints, to help increase transparency and speed up the dissemination of research.&nbsp;<strong>GigaByte</strong>&nbsp;then connected their articles to previously published preprint versions by crosslinking and highlighting these links via an Article Information section on their articles. With the rise of preprint peer review and evaluation policies, the logical next step has been to utilise bioRxiv and Sciety integrations that enable the sharing of these open peer reviews on any associated preprint in bioRxiv and medRxiv. We also share these preprint peer reviews in Sciety &ldquo;<em>Reviewing Groups</em>&rdquo; to enable further discoverability and insight for readers.</p>\r\n<p>In a new step,&nbsp;<strong>GigaByte</strong>&nbsp;is now building on this &ldquo;<em>publish then review</em>&rdquo; model of scientific communication by adding an endorsement step by aligning it with&nbsp;<strong>eLife</strong><em>&rsquo;s</em>&nbsp;new &ldquo;<em>publish, review, curate</em>&rdquo; model that puts preprints first. This is done using the new &ldquo;<em>Curating groups</em>&rdquo; feature from Sciety, to distinguish groups that offer some form of assessment/endorsement of a preprint. These Endorsement statements from&nbsp;<strong>GigaByte</strong>&nbsp;featured on this page are also highlighted on the original bioRxiv preprint as well as the associated Sciety article page. Altogether, this helps readers see at a glance why this preprint might be important or interesting.</p>\r\n<p>In January 2023,&nbsp;<strong>eLife</strong>&nbsp;became the first journal to embrace a new scientific publishing model, where every preprint that&nbsp;<strong>eLife</strong>&nbsp;sends for peer review will be published on their website as a &ldquo;<em>Reviewed Preprint</em>&rdquo; together with an assessment, public reviews, and a response from the authors.&nbsp;<strong>GigaByte</strong>&nbsp;is taking a step towards this &ldquo;<em>Publish, Review, Curate</em>&rdquo;&nbsp;<em>(PRC)</em>&nbsp;peer-review model, being the second journal after&nbsp;<strong>eLife</strong>&nbsp;to post these Editorial endorsements in Sciety &ldquo;<em>Curating groups</em>&rdquo;, alongside other evaluating communities such as&nbsp;<strong>Biophysics Colab</strong>.</p>\r\n<p><strong>GigaByte</strong>&nbsp;Chief Editor&nbsp;<strong>Scott Edmunds</strong>&nbsp;comments on this move, saying &ldquo;<em>We&rsquo;d like to thank Sciety for helping us take this step towards meeting our goal of matching the speed of publishing to the speed of research through using their platform</em>&rdquo;.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Kaveh Bazargan</strong>&nbsp;from&nbsp;<strong>GigaScience Press</strong>&nbsp;publishing partner&nbsp;<strong>River Valley Technologies</strong>&nbsp;notes that: &ldquo;<em>River Valley&rsquo;s systems have been built to support the aims as well as the spirit of Open Science. This includes alignment with the UNESCO Open Science Recommendation which specifically promotes innovative approaches such as preprints and open peer review practices, as used here. Our peer review system, ReView, together with our XML-first end-to-end publishing system enables publishing within 24 hours of acceptance. River Valley platforms allow GigaByte to provide fully open data, accessibility and transparency, revealing the pre-publication and open peer review history. It is a pleasure to work with GigaScience Press with whom we continually push the boundaries.</em>&rdquo;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Shane Alsop</strong>, Community Manager &ndash; Outreach,&nbsp;<strong>eLife</strong>, on behalf of the Sciety Team adds to this: &ldquo;<em>We&rsquo;re delighted to be partnering with GigaByte to help facilitate their move towards a &ldquo;publish first, then review&rdquo; model of preprint peer-review.&nbsp;<strong>GigaByte</strong>&nbsp;are now providing an &ldquo;editors assessment&rdquo; statement to accompany each reviewed preprint displayed on Sciety. For the first time, these statements will allow multiple communities to strengthen/scrutinise the findings reported in a preprint through cumulative, post-publication review. This approach not only prioritises the importance of research integrity over publication venue, but combines with more traditional outputs of preprint review to make evaluated preprints a first class research object in their own right.</em></p>\r\n<p><em>Organisations as diverse as&nbsp;<strong>Biophysics CoLab</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>eLife</strong>&nbsp;successfully leverage Sciety to experiment with variations of the &ldquo;PRC&rdquo; model, and&nbsp;<strong>GigaByte</strong>&rsquo;s own transition signifies a pivotal step towards wider adoption of&nbsp;</em><em>&ldquo;PRC&rdquo;</em>. With GigaByte&rsquo;s support, we look forward to collaborating with more journals to catalyse wider adoption of more transparent &ndash; and equitable &ndash; modes of peer review.&rdquo;</p>\r\n<p>As Open Science advocates this is just an incremental move for the journal, but we anticipate taking future steps to support a preprint-based publishing system. As the theme of Peer Review Week this week is &ldquo;<em>Peer Review and The Future of Publishing</em>&rdquo; this is a very timely and practical demonstration of exactly what the future can look like.</p>\r\n<p>Follow GigaByte&rsquo;s curated content on Sciety here:&nbsp;<a href=\u0022https://sciety.org/groups/gigabyte/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>https://sciety.org/groups/gigabyte/</a></p>\r\n<p><strong>Media contacts</strong>:&nbsp;<em>GigaScience</em>&nbsp;Editor-in-Chief: Scott Edmunds,&nbsp;<a href=\u0022mailto:Scott@gigasciencejournal.com\u0022>Scott@gigasciencejournal.com</a>, Office: +852 3610 3531 Cell: +852 92490853<br>Sciety/<em>eLife</em>&nbsp;Community Manager &ndash; Outreach Shane Alsop,&nbsp;<a href=\u0022mailto:shane@sciety.org\u0022>shane@sciety.org</a><br>&nbsp;<br><strong>Sharing on social media</strong>&nbsp;Find&nbsp;<em>GigaByte</em>&nbsp;online on<br>X @GigaByteJournal<br>Facebook<a href=\u0022https://www.facebook.com/GigaScience/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>&nbsp;</a><a href=\u0022https://www.facebook.com/GigaByteJournal/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>https://www.facebook.com/GigaByteJournal/</a>,<br>and keep up-to-date with our blog<a href=\u0022http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>&nbsp;http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/</a></p>\r\n<div class=\u0022single-post-wrap entry-content\u0022>\r\n<div class=\u0022row\u0022>\r\n<div class=\u0022col-md-12\u0022>\r\n<div class=\u0022row\u0022>\r\n<div class=\u0022col-md-12\u0022>\r\n<p><strong>About GigaScience Press</strong></p>\r\n<p><a href=\u0022http://gigasciencepress.com/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>GigaScience Press</a>&nbsp;is BGI&rsquo;s Open Access Publishing division, which publishes scientific journals and data. Its publishing projects are carried out with international publishing partners and infrastructure providers, including Oxford University Press and River Valley Technologies. It currently publishes two award-winning data-centric journals: its premier journal<a href=\u0022http://gigasciencejournal.com/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>&nbsp;<em>GigaScience</em></a>&nbsp;(launched in 2012), which won the 2018 American Publishers PROSE award for innovation in journal publishing, and its new journal<a href=\u0022http://gigabytejournal.com/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>&nbsp;<em>GigaByte</em></a><em>&nbsp;</em>(launched 2020), which won the 2022 ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing. The press also publishes data, software, and other research objects via its<a href=\u0022http://gigadb.org/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>&nbsp;GigaDB.org</a>&nbsp;database. To encourage transparent reporting of scientific research and to enable future access and analyses, it is a requirement of manuscript submission to all GigaScience Press journals that all supporting data and source code be made openly available in GigaDB or in a community approved, publicly available repository.</p>\r\n<p><strong>About River Valley Technologies</strong></p>\r\n<p>River Valley&rsquo;s mission is to accelerate the communication of research through automation and easy-to-use publishing platforms. These help societies and publishers manage and deliver their content more efficiently and more cost-effectively. Developed in-house from the ground up, River Valley&rsquo;s platforms address the pain points felt by all stakeholders, from researchers preparing their manuscripts to publishers requiring perfect XML and immediate access to underlying data. River Valley was established in 1988 with the mission of delivering cutting edge solutions to academic publishers. Some 10 years ago, the company pioneered the first fully XML driven online authoring system and today boasts a number of publishing platforms. Together they deliver a fully automated end-to-end solution, including submission and peer review, XML-based authoring, and content hosting. With head office in London and offices in India, River Valley supports clients across EMEA, the USA and Asia. Clients include The IET, IOS Press, American Physical Society, The Sphere Association and GigaScience&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Press</strong>:&nbsp;<a href=\u0022http://www.rivervalley.io/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>www.rivervalley.io</a><br><strong>Contact</strong>:&nbsp;<a href=\u0022mailto:Maryam@rivervalley.io\u0022>Maryam@rivervalley.io</a></p>\r\n<p><img style=\u0022display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\u0022 src=\u0022https://staging-rvt.rivervalleytechnologies.in/admin/backend/storage/app/public/uploads/news_content/Screenshot_2022-10-12_at_10.20.56.png\u0022 alt=\u0022\u0022 width=\u0022300\u0022 height=\u0022229\u0022></p>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>",
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            "temp_new_content": "<p>NEWS RELEASE 11 October 2022</p>\r\n<p>River Valley is proud to announce that&nbsp;<strong>GigaByte</strong>, a journal from its client, GigaScience Press, is a joint winner of the 2022&nbsp;<strong>ALPSP</strong>&nbsp;Award for Innovation in Scholarly Publishing. The award was given in recognition of GigaByte&rsquo;s solutions for addressing the&nbsp;<strong>UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science</strong>. 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Articles can be published within 24 hours of acceptance</em>.&rdquo;</p>\r\n<p><strong>David Sommer</strong>,&nbsp;Chair of the judging panel said: &ldquo;<em>This year&rsquo;s winners highlight how our industry is responding to the changing needs of authors and researchers together with the move towards making the scholarly record accessible to a broader audience worldwide.</em>&rdquo;</p>\r\n<p><strong>About River Valley Technologies</strong></p>\r\n<p>River Valley&rsquo;s mission is to accelerate the communication of research through automation and easy-to-use publishing platforms. These help societies and publishers manage and deliver their content more efficiently and more cost-effectively. Developed in-house from the ground up, River Valley&rsquo;s platforms address the pain points felt by all stakeholders, from researchers preparing their manuscripts to publishers requiring perfect XML and immediate access to underlying data. River Valley was established in 1988 with the mission of delivering cutting edge solutions to academic publishers. Some 10 years ago, the company pioneered the first fully XML driven online authoring system and today boasts a number of publishing platforms. Together they deliver a fully automated end-to-end solution, including submission and peer review, XML-based authoring, and content hosting.</p>\r\n<p>With head office in London and offices in India, River Valley supports clients across EMEA, the USA and Asia. Clients include The IET, IOS Press, American Physical Society, The Sphere Association, &nbsp;IOP Publishing and GigaScience Press.&nbsp;<a href=\u0022https://rivervalley.io/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>www.rivervalley.io</a></p>\r\n<p><strong>Contact</strong>:&nbsp;<a href=\u0022mailto:Maryam@rivervalley.io\u0022>Maryam@rivervalley.io</a></p>\r\n<p><strong>About GigaScience Press</strong></p>\r\n<p>GigaScience Press is BGI&rsquo;s Open Access Publishing division, which publishes scientific journals and data. Its publishing projects are carried out with international publishing partners and infrastructure providers, including Oxford University Press and River Valley Technologies. It currently publishes two award-winning data-centric journals: its premier journal&nbsp;<a href=\u0022http://gigasciencejournal.com/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022><em>GigaScience</em></a>&nbsp;(launched in 2012), which won the 2018 American Publishers PROSE award for innovation in journal publishing, and its new journal&nbsp;<a href=\u0022http://gigabytejournal.com/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022><em>GigaByte</em></a><em>&nbsp;</em>(launched 2020), which just won the 2022 ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing. It also publishes data, software, and other research objects via its&nbsp;<a href=\u0022http://gigadb.org/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>GigaDB.org</a>&nbsp;database. To encourage transparent reporting of scientific research and to enable future access and analyses, it is a requirement of manuscript submission to all GigaScience Press journals that all supporting data and source code be made openly available in GigaDB or in a community approved, publicly available repository.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>About&nbsp;</strong><strong><em>GigaByte</em></strong></p>\r\n<p>GigaByte&nbsp;provides a way to rapidly and cost-effectively share research, making the scientific process more inclusive and accessible to the&nbsp;broader community. It uses an exclusively XML-based publishing system that automates the production process and makes it effortless to change views, languages and&nbsp;embed interactive content. Enabling readers to directly interact with the underlying data and software allows immediate use of published research, improves reproducibility, and increases trust. Upon acceptance this system converts manuscripts to online &ndash; and PDF-ready articles within hours with minimal human intervention, dramatically reducing production time and cost to provide an equitable solution to publish open science.&nbsp;<a href=\u0022https://gigabytejournal.com/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>https://gigabytejournal.com/</a></p>\r\n<p><strong>Contacts</strong>:&nbsp;<em>GigaScience</em>&nbsp;Editor-in-Chief, Scott Edmunds,&nbsp;<a href=\u0022mailto:Scott@gigasciencejournal.com\u0022>Scott@gigasciencejournal.com</a>,&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>About ALPSP</strong><br><a href=\u0022https://www.alpsp.org/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>ALPSP</a>&nbsp;is the international trade association which supports and represents not-for-profit organizations that publish scholarly and professional content, and those that work with them. 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River Valley delivered this solution using its end-to-end publishing system from submission and peer review to production and hosting, combined with third party integrations.</p>\r\n<p><img src=\u0022https://staging-rvt.rivervalleytechnologies.in/admin/backend/storage/app/public/uploads/news_content/Untitled.png\u0022 alt=\u0022\u0022 width=\u0022546\u0022 height=\u0022594\u0022></p>\r\n<figure class=\u0022wp-block-image size-large\u0022>\r\n<figcaption>River Valley Director,&nbsp;<a href=\u0022https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAADE7KUB5nqyhP-p3p_zLGtbuAlyyIgMSjE\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>Kaveh Bazargan</a>&nbsp;takes to the stage with&nbsp;<a href=\u0022https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAASelT0BJsxBMYs5dYTejZyJVDgF_xR76Kg\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>Scott Edmunds</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\u0022https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAAsZn4BieDTzZSQO8NYdXtHV_xRPabNN4U\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>Laurie Goodman</a>&nbsp;of Gigabyte Journal (developed in partnership with River Valley)</figcaption>\r\n</figure>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>Scott Edmunds, Chief Editor of&nbsp;<strong>GigaByte</strong>, highlighted the role of River Valley Technologies:&nbsp; &ldquo;<em>XML-first publishing workflows have been talked about for a long time, but it&rsquo;s gratifying for&nbsp;<strong>\u200b\u200bGigaByte</strong>&nbsp;to be acknowledged as the first to demonstrate not only that the system works, but that it has real-world benefits, such as reducing costs and increasing accessibility and interactivity in scientific publishing.</em></p>\r\n<p><em>An excellent example of its use is that this system, due to its high speed and low cost, enabled the recent publication of a series on Vectors of Human Disease, sponsored by the World Health Organization.</em></p>\r\n<p><em>More than half of the submissions were from Latin America, and our ability to publish these articles in our multilingual format further broke down barriers, allowing Portuguese and Spanish speakers to better comprehend the implications of important work relating to the public health of their communities</em>.&rdquo;</p>\r\n<p><strong>River Valley</strong>&rsquo;s&nbsp; end-to-end publishing platform drastically reduces the time and cost of publication. The cost savings can be passed on to the researcher, opening the door for many researchers around the world.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>GigatByte articles are published within 24 hours of acceptance. While&nbsp;<em>GigaByte&nbsp;</em>articles can still be downloaded as an industry-standard PDF, the article publication focus is on the XML content that links to the research data and the code to all of the dynamic features. As well as improving the readability for machines, the platform allows integrated language support as well as the ability to view the article in a dyslexic-friendly font.</p>\r\n<p>River Valley Director Kaveh Bazargan said: &ldquo;<em><strong>GigaByte</strong>&rsquo;s openness and their appetite to push the boundaries of publishing has allowed us to deploy our unique XML-first technology to embed complex and interactive objects such as immersive 3D content. Articles can be published within 24 hours of acceptance</em>.&rdquo;</p>\r\n<p><strong>David Sommer</strong>,&nbsp;Chair of the judging panel said: &ldquo;<em>This year&rsquo;s winners highlight how our industry is responding to the changing needs of authors and researchers together with the move towards making the scholarly record accessible to a broader audience worldwide.</em>&rdquo;</p>\r\n<p><strong>About River Valley Technologies</strong></p>\r\n<p>River Valley&rsquo;s mission is to accelerate the communication of research through automation and easy-to-use publishing platforms. These help societies and publishers manage and deliver their content more efficiently and more cost-effectively. Developed in-house from the ground up, River Valley&rsquo;s platforms address the pain points felt by all stakeholders, from researchers preparing their manuscripts to publishers requiring perfect XML and immediate access to underlying data. River Valley was established in 1988 with the mission of delivering cutting edge solutions to academic publishers. Some 10 years ago, the company pioneered the first fully XML driven online authoring system and today boasts a number of publishing platforms. Together they deliver a fully automated end-to-end solution, including submission and peer review, XML-based authoring, and content hosting.</p>\r\n<p>With head office in London and offices in India, River Valley supports clients across EMEA, the USA and Asia. Clients include The IET, IOS Press, American Physical Society, The Sphere Association, &nbsp;IOP Publishing and GigaScience Press.&nbsp;<a href=\u0022https://rivervalley.io/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>www.rivervalley.io</a></p>\r\n<p><strong>Contact</strong>:&nbsp;<a href=\u0022mailto:Maryam@rivervalley.io\u0022>Maryam@rivervalley.io</a></p>\r\n<p><strong>About GigaScience Press</strong></p>\r\n<p>GigaScience Press is BGI&rsquo;s Open Access Publishing division, which publishes scientific journals and data. Its publishing projects are carried out with international publishing partners and infrastructure providers, including Oxford University Press and River Valley Technologies. It currently publishes two award-winning data-centric journals: its premier journal&nbsp;<a href=\u0022http://gigasciencejournal.com/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022><em>GigaScience</em></a>&nbsp;(launched in 2012), which won the 2018 American Publishers PROSE award for innovation in journal publishing, and its new journal&nbsp;<a href=\u0022http://gigabytejournal.com/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022><em>GigaByte</em></a><em>&nbsp;</em>(launched 2020), which just won the 2022 ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing. It also publishes data, software, and other research objects via its&nbsp;<a href=\u0022http://gigadb.org/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>GigaDB.org</a>&nbsp;database. To encourage transparent reporting of scientific research and to enable future access and analyses, it is a requirement of manuscript submission to all GigaScience Press journals that all supporting data and source code be made openly available in GigaDB or in a community approved, publicly available repository.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>About&nbsp;</strong><strong><em>GigaByte</em></strong></p>\r\n<p>GigaByte&nbsp;provides a way to rapidly and cost-effectively share research, making the scientific process more inclusive and accessible to the&nbsp;broader community. It uses an exclusively XML-based publishing system that automates the production process and makes it effortless to change views, languages and&nbsp;embed interactive content. Enabling readers to directly interact with the underlying data and software allows immediate use of published research, improves reproducibility, and increases trust. Upon acceptance this system converts manuscripts to online &ndash; and PDF-ready articles within hours with minimal human intervention, dramatically reducing production time and cost to provide an equitable solution to publish open science.&nbsp;<a href=\u0022https://gigabytejournal.com/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>https://gigabytejournal.com/</a></p>\r\n<p><strong>Contacts</strong>:&nbsp;<em>GigaScience</em>&nbsp;Editor-in-Chief, Scott Edmunds,&nbsp;<a href=\u0022mailto:Scott@gigasciencejournal.com\u0022>Scott@gigasciencejournal.com</a>,&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>About ALPSP</strong><br><a href=\u0022https://www.alpsp.org/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>ALPSP</a>&nbsp;is the international trade association which supports and represents not-for-profit organizations that publish scholarly and professional content, and those that work with them. Membership of ALPSP is for the whole organization so all employees can take advantage of the benefits on offer. ALPSP is proud to have nearly 300 member organizations across 30 countries. ALPSP.org</p>\r\n<p><em>River Valley will be attending the Frankfurt Book Fair. To set up a meeting please contact&nbsp;</em><strong><em><a href=\u0022mailto:Kaveh@rivervalley.io\u0022>Kaveh@rivervalley.io</a></em></strong></p>\r\n<p><img style=\u0022display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\u0022 src=\u0022https://staging-rvt.rivervalleytechnologies.in/admin/backend/storage/app/public/uploads/news_content/Screenshot_2022-10-12_at_10.20.56.png\u0022 alt=\u0022\u0022 width=\u0022300\u0022 height=\u0022229\u0022></p>",
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            "temp_new_content": "<p><em>In the following interview published by&nbsp;<a href=\u0022https://www.researchinformation.info/interview/fast-publication-can-save-lives\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022>Research Information</a>, River Valley Technologies director Maryam Bazargan describes her early career, 10 years of working at River Valley Technologies, her love of languages and cultures, and the areas of scholarly communications that she is passionate about.</em></p>\r\n<p><em><img src=\u0022https://staging-rvt.rivervalleytechnologies.in/admin/backend/storage/app/public/uploads/news_content/Maryam_(1).jpeg\u0022 alt=\u0022\u0022 width=\u0022238\u0022 height=\u0022357\u0022></em></p>\r\n<p>River Valley Technologies director&nbsp;<strong>Maryam Bazargan</strong>&nbsp;describes her early career, 10 years of working with her brother Kaveh, and her love of languages and cultures.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Tell us a little about your background and qualifications&hellip;</strong></p>\r\n<p>I spent my early days in the family home in Notting Hill Gate, London but was born in Bethnal Green hospital &ndash; so I suppose I could be considered a genuine Cockney!</p>\r\n<p>Shortly after, my parents decided to move back to Iran and for a few years lived between the two countries. I was there for the revolution in 1979, when schools were closed for six months, and then the Iran/Iraq war. I moved back to London in 1983 &ndash; It was tough as I hardly spoke any English but thankfully there was another Persian girl in my class who translated things for me in the first six months.</p>\r\n<p>I completed my GCSEs and A-Levels at Putney High School. I loved business and learning languages; I guess having been thrown in the deep end with no English helped. I studied Marketing with French and German in Newcastle, which I loved.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>After my degree I moved back to London and while working in marketing for an international technology company, I got involved with an internet-based project in 1997; the project entailed setting up an internet TV Guide.</p>\r\n<p>I realised the internet was the future and in 1998 moved to the world of media agencies (joining one of the largest media agencies, Carat/Aegis Media and was later headhunted to set up the digital media arm for Publicis in 2000), devising digital strategies for clients including Diageo, Hewlett Packard, Yahoo!, Apple and L&rsquo;Oreal. I helped launch The new VW Beetle and Apple Mac in the late 90s.</p>\r\n<p>The digital media industry was tiny in the 1990s and it felt like there was a new dotcom company launching every day &ndash; there was never a shortage of social events. It was an exciting time!</p>\r\n<p>In around 2003, I became aware of the video-game industry&rsquo;s market size and the untapped &lsquo;media&rsquo; within the games. So I set up possibly the first marketing company specialising in in-game advertising &ndash; essentially setting up partnerships between video games and brands that wanted to engage with that audience.</p>\r\n<p>We delivered some of the largest campaigns, including Reebok partnership with ProEvolutionSoccer (one of the largest football games). We realised the concept applied to many other sectors, and so extended to brand and TV, music and sports partnership. One of the most extraordinary experiences was working directly with Don King delivering partnership and sponsorship strategy for fights at Madison Square Garden &ndash; quite a character!</p>\r\n<p>I love anything and everything about business &ndash; I joke about having set up my first business with my neighbour when I was six years old, selling paper fans in our street in Iran! What I enjoy is coming up with new ways of doing things and new business ideas &ndash; being an outsider to an industry helps with that &ndash; challenging the norm, and creating new opportunities.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>You&rsquo;ve been working with your brother Kaveh at River Valley Technologies for nearly 10 years now. What does the company do, and what is your role?</strong></p>\r\n<p>River Valley, now in its 34th year, has specialised in composition services for the STM market, in particular complex maths and LaTeX, and today delivers full end-to-end publishing platforms.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>Around 10 years ago we started moving from a pure outsourcing company to a technology provider. Before joining, I didn&rsquo;t have much knowledge of the STM marketing, but when Kaveh and I started talking about the industry and its stakeholders, we realised in fact there were a lot of similarities with other sectors that had been early digital adopters.</p>\r\n<p>Over the last eight years I have been putting systems in place to deliver technology products to publishers. Our vision was to deliver an end-to-end publishing system in the cloud, so we began by dividing the workflow and developing cloud-based platforms for each stage of the workflow.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>Today we have a full suite of publishing solutions for clients who can use one or all:&nbsp;from submission and peer review to production, tracking, proofing, publishing, discoverability and reporting.</p>\r\n<p>Today I oversee all business operations at River Valley from business strategy to product delivery to clients. Our mission is to&nbsp;accelerate the communication of research&nbsp;and my job is to ensure we deliver this through thoroughly understanding industry requirements.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>What have been the biggest developments in scholarly communications since then?</strong></p>\r\n<p>From a market point of view, the move from subscription to open access (OA) has been the most notable change in the last 10 years. Related to OA are the commendable moves to openness in other areas, such as open data and open peer review. Publishing systems and platforms have had to adapt accordingly, to ensure that new business models are catered for.</p>\r\n<p>In the last two and a half years, during the Covid era, faster publication of research has become paramount &ndash; so the days of research being published months or even years after submission of an article might be over!</p>\r\n<p>Consumers of research publications no longer want to be limited to downloading PDFs of papers. The TikTok generation wants to be able to have instant access on any device including mobile phones. This means publishers need to produce multiple formats and, crucially, must guarantee that all formats match.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Are there any areas of scholarly communications that you are particularly passionate about?</strong></p>\r\n<p>Speed of publication is probably what I am most passionate about. We have managed to perfect a system that allows full publication of all formats within 24 hours of completion of peer review. We are working on making the publication process even more streamlined. Fast publication can save lives!</p>\r\n<p>Accessibility is another passion of ours. We want everyone to be able to access research with the minimum impediments. An example of a small enhancement that we have made to our sites is to allow readers to view the content as well as the interface in a dyslexic-friendly typeface. We have also given our clients the tools to translate the interface on their publication pages into any language they desire.</p>\r\n<p>Removing barriers at both ends of the scholarly communication process is another passion of mine. In the most general sense, we want to allow anyone to publish anything as easily as possible, and for anyone to consume that publication easily and painlessly.</p>\r\n<p><strong>What are your wider hopes for the industry for the next 10 years?</strong></p>\r\n<p>We want to help increase automation in all stages of publishing, in order to bring down the cost of publishing, thus removing further the barriers to scholarly communication. A dream of ours is to allow &lsquo;citizen scientists&rsquo;, not only established scientists and researchers, to contribute to research communication. We have this in the back of our minds when building our platforms.</p>\r\n<p>It would be good to see the cost of textbooks go down, thus alleviating the pressure on students. In addition, we want to see &lsquo;live&rsquo; textbooks that are continually updated, ensuring that researchers always have the latest research at their fingertips.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Lastly, do you have any fascinating hobbies or pastimes you want to tell us about?</strong></p>\r\n<p>I love entertaining friends, whether it&rsquo;s a dinner party at home or putting on a party. I have been known for my parties and have thrown a few with 400+ guests in the past &ndash; I just love meeting new people and connecting people with others.</p>\r\n<p>I love to dabble in art and interior design, and have designed and renovated a few homes over the years, but sadly none of my paintings have made it to Sotheby&rsquo;s yet!</p>\r\n<p>Languages have remained really important to me &ndash; they say you live as many lives as the languages you speak and that is so true. I feel so frustrated when I go to a country and I don&rsquo;t speak their language; over the years I&rsquo;ve continued to study languages including Japanese and Spanish. I love travelling and exploring new places, understanding cultures; my favourite has to be Marrakech, a riot of colour, fragrance, design and of course souk treasure!</p>\r\n<p>I am always fascinated to hear about other people&rsquo;s businesses and their strategies &ndash; I don&rsquo;t mind sticking my oar in! On a more serious level, I like listening to people&rsquo;s business issues and love to help come up with solutions. I also mentor a few people; it gives me great joy seeing them and their businesses flourish.</p>",
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            "news_content": "<p><em>In the following interview published by&nbsp;<a href=\u0022https://www.researchinformation.info/interview/fast-publication-can-save-lives\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022>Research Information</a>, River Valley Technologies director Maryam Bazargan describes her early career, 10 years of working at River Valley Technologies, her love of languages and cultures, and the areas of scholarly communications that she is passionate about.</em></p>\r\n<p><em><img src=\u0022https://staging-rvt.rivervalleytechnologies.in/admin/backend/storage/app/public/uploads/news_content/Maryam_(1).jpeg\u0022 alt=\u0022\u0022 width=\u0022238\u0022 height=\u0022357\u0022></em></p>\r\n<p>River Valley Technologies director&nbsp;<strong>Maryam Bazargan</strong>&nbsp;describes her early career, 10 years of working with her brother Kaveh, and her love of languages and cultures.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Tell us a little about your background and qualifications&hellip;</strong></p>\r\n<p>I spent my early days in the family home in Notting Hill Gate, London but was born in Bethnal Green hospital &ndash; so I suppose I could be considered a genuine Cockney!</p>\r\n<p>Shortly after, my parents decided to move back to Iran and for a few years lived between the two countries. I was there for the revolution in 1979, when schools were closed for six months, and then the Iran/Iraq war. I moved back to London in 1983 &ndash; It was tough as I hardly spoke any English but thankfully there was another Persian girl in my class who translated things for me in the first six months.</p>\r\n<p>I completed my GCSEs and A-Levels at Putney High School. I loved business and learning languages; I guess having been thrown in the deep end with no English helped. I studied Marketing with French and German in Newcastle, which I loved.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>After my degree I moved back to London and while working in marketing for an international technology company, I got involved with an internet-based project in 1997; the project entailed setting up an internet TV Guide.</p>\r\n<p>I realised the internet was the future and in 1998 moved to the world of media agencies (joining one of the largest media agencies, Carat/Aegis Media and was later headhunted to set up the digital media arm for Publicis in 2000), devising digital strategies for clients including Diageo, Hewlett Packard, Yahoo!, Apple and L&rsquo;Oreal. I helped launch The new VW Beetle and Apple Mac in the late 90s.</p>\r\n<p>The digital media industry was tiny in the 1990s and it felt like there was a new dotcom company launching every day &ndash; there was never a shortage of social events. It was an exciting time!</p>\r\n<p>In around 2003, I became aware of the video-game industry&rsquo;s market size and the untapped &lsquo;media&rsquo; within the games. So I set up possibly the first marketing company specialising in in-game advertising &ndash; essentially setting up partnerships between video games and brands that wanted to engage with that audience.</p>\r\n<p>We delivered some of the largest campaigns, including Reebok partnership with ProEvolutionSoccer (one of the largest football games). We realised the concept applied to many other sectors, and so extended to brand and TV, music and sports partnership. One of the most extraordinary experiences was working directly with Don King delivering partnership and sponsorship strategy for fights at Madison Square Garden &ndash; quite a character!</p>\r\n<p>I love anything and everything about business &ndash; I joke about having set up my first business with my neighbour when I was six years old, selling paper fans in our street in Iran! What I enjoy is coming up with new ways of doing things and new business ideas &ndash; being an outsider to an industry helps with that &ndash; challenging the norm, and creating new opportunities.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>You&rsquo;ve been working with your brother Kaveh at River Valley Technologies for nearly 10 years now. What does the company do, and what is your role?</strong></p>\r\n<p>River Valley, now in its 34th year, has specialised in composition services for the STM market, in particular complex maths and LaTeX, and today delivers full end-to-end publishing platforms.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>Around 10 years ago we started moving from a pure outsourcing company to a technology provider. Before joining, I didn&rsquo;t have much knowledge of the STM marketing, but when Kaveh and I started talking about the industry and its stakeholders, we realised in fact there were a lot of similarities with other sectors that had been early digital adopters.</p>\r\n<p>Over the last eight years I have been putting systems in place to deliver technology products to publishers. Our vision was to deliver an end-to-end publishing system in the cloud, so we began by dividing the workflow and developing cloud-based platforms for each stage of the workflow.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>Today we have a full suite of publishing solutions for clients who can use one or all:&nbsp;from submission and peer review to production, tracking, proofing, publishing, discoverability and reporting.</p>\r\n<p>Today I oversee all business operations at River Valley from business strategy to product delivery to clients. Our mission is to&nbsp;accelerate the communication of research&nbsp;and my job is to ensure we deliver this through thoroughly understanding industry requirements.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>What have been the biggest developments in scholarly communications since then?</strong></p>\r\n<p>From a market point of view, the move from subscription to open access (OA) has been the most notable change in the last 10 years. Related to OA are the commendable moves to openness in other areas, such as open data and open peer review. Publishing systems and platforms have had to adapt accordingly, to ensure that new business models are catered for.</p>\r\n<p>In the last two and a half years, during the Covid era, faster publication of research has become paramount &ndash; so the days of research being published months or even years after submission of an article might be over!</p>\r\n<p>Consumers of research publications no longer want to be limited to downloading PDFs of papers. The TikTok generation wants to be able to have instant access on any device including mobile phones. This means publishers need to produce multiple formats and, crucially, must guarantee that all formats match.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Are there any areas of scholarly communications that you are particularly passionate about?</strong></p>\r\n<p>Speed of publication is probably what I am most passionate about. We have managed to perfect a system that allows full publication of all formats within 24 hours of completion of peer review. We are working on making the publication process even more streamlined. Fast publication can save lives!</p>\r\n<p>Accessibility is another passion of ours. We want everyone to be able to access research with the minimum impediments. An example of a small enhancement that we have made to our sites is to allow readers to view the content as well as the interface in a dyslexic-friendly typeface. We have also given our clients the tools to translate the interface on their publication pages into any language they desire.</p>\r\n<p>Removing barriers at both ends of the scholarly communication process is another passion of mine. In the most general sense, we want to allow anyone to publish anything as easily as possible, and for anyone to consume that publication easily and painlessly.</p>\r\n<p><strong>What are your wider hopes for the industry for the next 10 years?</strong></p>\r\n<p>We want to help increase automation in all stages of publishing, in order to bring down the cost of publishing, thus removing further the barriers to scholarly communication. A dream of ours is to allow &lsquo;citizen scientists&rsquo;, not only established scientists and researchers, to contribute to research communication. We have this in the back of our minds when building our platforms.</p>\r\n<p>It would be good to see the cost of textbooks go down, thus alleviating the pressure on students. In addition, we want to see &lsquo;live&rsquo; textbooks that are continually updated, ensuring that researchers always have the latest research at their fingertips.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Lastly, do you have any fascinating hobbies or pastimes you want to tell us about?</strong></p>\r\n<p>I love entertaining friends, whether it&rsquo;s a dinner party at home or putting on a party. I have been known for my parties and have thrown a few with 400+ guests in the past &ndash; I just love meeting new people and connecting people with others.</p>\r\n<p>I love to dabble in art and interior design, and have designed and renovated a few homes over the years, but sadly none of my paintings have made it to Sotheby&rsquo;s yet!</p>\r\n<p>Languages have remained really important to me &ndash; they say you live as many lives as the languages you speak and that is so true. I feel so frustrated when I go to a country and I don&rsquo;t speak their language; over the years I&rsquo;ve continued to study languages including Japanese and Spanish. I love travelling and exploring new places, understanding cultures; my favourite has to be Marrakech, a riot of colour, fragrance, design and of course souk treasure!</p>\r\n<p>I am always fascinated to hear about other people&rsquo;s businesses and their strategies &ndash; I don&rsquo;t mind sticking my oar in! On a more serious level, I like listening to people&rsquo;s business issues and love to help come up with solutions. I also mentor a few people; it gives me great joy seeing them and their businesses flourish.</p>",
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            "temp_new_content": "<h2>Tracking papers from submission to publication</h2>\r\n<p><strong><em>London &ndash; 15 October 2021</em></strong></p>\r\n<p>ICE Publishing is partnering with River Valley Technologies to introduce a new live data visualisation tool.&nbsp;<a href=\u0022https://rivervalley.io/darvi/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022><strong>DARVi</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;(Data Analyser, Reporter, and Visualizer)</strong>&nbsp;will provide their editorial and production teams with an up to the minute view of their publishing operation, from submission to publication. Driven by article metadata,&nbsp;<strong>DARVi</strong>&nbsp;ingests information from River Valley&rsquo;s&nbsp;<a href=\u0022https://rivervalley.io/products/submission-and-peer-review\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022><strong>ReView</strong></a>&nbsp;(submission and peer review) and&nbsp;<a href=\u0022https://rivervalley.io/traction/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022><strong>TrAction</strong></a>&nbsp;(production management) systems to provide a detailed dashboard of operations. The tool also presents data from other sources, like CrossRef Funder Registry and COUNTER, eliminating the need to &ldquo;create reports&rdquo;.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Ben Ramster, Journals Manager at ICE Publishing</strong>&nbsp;said: &ldquo;<em>We are delighted to partner with River Valley Technologies to introduce this modern interface for the author, editor and reviewer community. The live data visualisations that DARVi provides will support both peer review and the open-access needs of funders and institutions.</em>&rdquo;</p>\r\n<p>DARVi<strong>&nbsp;</strong>is a new system for analysing and visualising data. Publishers, librarians, funders and other stakeholders can see combined data from any number of sources on a user-friendly dashboard, and can fully personalize the output using interactive controls.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>DARVi can display and report on and export any data relevant to publishing including the Plan S Price Transparency Framework.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Kaveh Bazargan, Director at River Valley</strong>&nbsp;said: &ldquo;<em>It has been a pleasure to work in partnership with the ICE to bring out the full potential of DARVi, successfully combining data from River Valley&rsquo;s platforms and ICE&rsquo;s third party systems.</em>&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>\r\n<h3>About ICE Publishing&nbsp;</h3>\r\n<p>Established in 1836, ICE Publishing is a leading provider of information for researchers and practitioners worldwide in the fields of civil engineering, construction and materials science.\u202f We are the publishing division of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), a non-profit society of over 95,000 members around the world. Our portfolio includes journals, archives and books which provide a gold-standard reference point for industry and academia.\u202f<br><a href=\u0022http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>www.icevirtuallibrary.com</a>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<h3>About River Valley Technologies</h3>\r\n<p>River Valley&rsquo;s mission is to accelerate the communication of research through automation and easy-to-use publishing platforms, thus helping societies and publishers manage and deliver their content more efficiently and more cost-effectively.</p>\r\n<p>Developed in-house, River Valley&rsquo;s platforms address the pain points felt by stakeholders, from researchers preparing their manuscripts to publishers requiring perfect XML and immediate access to business data.</p>\r\n<p>River Valley was established in 1988 with the mission of delivering cutting edge solutions to academic publishers. Some 10 years ago, the company pioneered the first fully XML driven online authoring system and today boasts a number of publishing platforms. Together they deliver a fully automated end-to-end solution, including submission and peer review, XML-based authoring, and hosting.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>With head office in London and offices in India, River Valley supports clients across EMEA, the USA and Asia. Clients include The IET, IOS Press, American Physical Society, The Sphere Association and IOP Publishing.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Contact:</strong>&nbsp;Maryam Bazargan<br>Email:&nbsp;<a href=\u0022mailto:Maryam@rivervalleytechnologies.com\u0022>Maryam@</a><a href=\u0022mailto:%20Maryam@rivervalley.io\u0022>rivervalley.io</a><br><a href=\u0022http://www.rivervalley.io/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>www.rivervalley.io</a></p>",
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            "temp_new_content": "<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><img src=\u0022https://staging-rvt.rivervalleytechnologies.in/admin/backend/storage/app/public/uploads/news_content/Screenshot-2021-08-31-at-09.15.46-2048x664.png\u0022 alt=\u0022\u0022 width=\u0022891\u0022 height=\u0022289\u0022></p>\r\n<p><strong>London, United Kingdom, 25 July 2019</strong>&nbsp;&ndash; River Valley Technologies announce the launch of&nbsp;<a href=\u0022https://rivervalley.io/rvhost/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022>RVHost</a>, the innovative content hosting platform, and the final component of their XML-based end-to-end scholarly publishing solution.</p>\r\n<p>The platform gives unprecedented control to publishers over their content, thus allowing them to create a brand new journal within minutes, or to schedule any publication for a precise date and time, e.g. timed with a press release. RVHost delivers full analytics, including an innovative graphical &ldquo;history&rdquo; of a publication, together with any citations. The system is fully customisable, multi-lingual and content agnostic, allowing it to host any form of data or multimedia.</p>\r\n<p>RVHost will be launched in partnership with forward-looking STM journal,&nbsp;<em>GigaScience</em>, which will be using River Valley&rsquo;s complete end-to-end publishing system.</p>\r\n<p><em>GigaScience</em>&nbsp;Executive Editor,&nbsp;<strong><em>Scott Edmunds</em></strong>, explains that it would have been impossible to achieve the changes that the&nbsp;<em>GigaScience</em>&nbsp;team envisioned for new journal development without partnering with River Valley Technologies: &ldquo;In our seven years of pushing the boundaries of scientific publishing, our biggest frustration has been trying to work around legacy publishing obstacles. Working with River Valley Technologies &ndash; with their state-of-the-art, forward-thinking platforms &ndash; will finally allow us to put all our new ideas into practice.&rdquo;</p>\r\n<p><em>River Valley Technologies</em>&nbsp;Director,&nbsp;<strong><em>Kaveh Bazargan</em></strong>&nbsp;said: &ldquo;We designed RVHost to be powerful, yet simple to set up and to use. This means it is scalable and delivers time and cost savings for publishers of all sizes, from single-journal society publishers to those dealing with thousands of books and journals. The architecture is particularly suitable for a community platform for related publishers. Working with our highly innovative launch partner,&nbsp;<em>GigaScience</em>, will allow us to use the many features of RVHost to revolutionize how research is communicated.&rdquo;</p>\r\n<p>RVHost works beautifully on all devices, including mobile phones, and allows the reader to select their viewing preferences with options to view content in a larger typeface, or even in a typeface for people with dyslexia. When used with other River Valley platforms, RVHost delivers further benefits including the instant creation of personalised PDFs, and a comprehensive history of every manuscript. Publishing new versions of articles becomes an efficient and painless process.</p>\r\n<p>The database architecture of RVHost has been designed to make transfer from other platforms easy &ndash; any legacy data is transferred losslessly and automatically during transition from other hosting platforms.</p>\r\n<p><em>Kaveh Bazargan</em>&nbsp;added: &ldquo;RVHost fully supports Open Access publishing, ensuring compliance with Plan S. We ask all participating journals to adopt the COPE/DOAJ principles of transparency to ensure ethical publishing.&rdquo;</p>\r\n<p>RVHost links with a wide range of third party systems, including reference managers and metrics tools.</p>\r\n<p>&mdash; ends &mdash;</p>\r\n<h4><em>About River Valley Technologies</em></h4>\r\n<p>River Valley&rsquo;s mission is to accelerate scholarly communication. The company aims to streamline the publishing process through automation and easy-to-use platforms, helping STM societies and publishers manage their content more efficiently and deliver content to readers faster and more cost-effectively.</p>\r\n<p>Developed in-house, River Valley&rsquo;s proprietary platforms address the pain points felt by stakeholders, from researchers preparing their manuscripts to publishers requiring perfect XML. The system deals with all admin, allowing clients to focus on creating content.</p>\r\n<p>River Valley was established in 1988 by Kaveh Bazargan. A physicist by training, his intense interest in the emerging area of desktop publishing led him to start the company with the mission of delivering cutting edge solutions to academic publishers. Some 10 years ago, the company pioneered the first online authoring system and today boasts a number of publishing platforms, including: RVRite for collaborative authoring; ProofCheck for author proof checking; RVFormatter for automated conversion of XML to PDF; and ReView for intuitive peer review.</p>\r\n<p>With Head Office in London and 3 offices in India, River Valley supports clients across EMEA, the USA and Asia. Clients include Cambridge University Press, The IET, De Gruyter, IOS Press, American Physical Society, The Sphere Association and IOP Publishing.</p>\r\n<h5><strong>Contact:</strong></h5>\r\n<p>Maryam Bazargan<br>Email:&nbsp;<a href=\u0022mailto:Maryam@rivervalleytechnologies.com\u0022>Maryam@rivervalleytechnologies.com<br></a><a href=\u0022http://www.rivervalleytechnologies.com/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>www.rivervalleytechnologies.com</a></p>\r\n<h4><em>About GigaScience</em></h4>\r\n<p><a href=\u0022http://www.gigasciencejournal.com/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>GigaScience</a>&nbsp;is co-published by&nbsp;<a href=\u0022http://www.genomics.cn/en/index\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>BGI</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\u0022https://global.oup.com/?cc=us\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>Oxford University Press</a>. The journal covers research that uses or produces &lsquo;big data&rsquo; from the full spectrum of the life sciences. It also serves as a forum for discussing the difficulties of and unique needs for handling large-scale data from all areas of the life sciences. The journal has a completely novel publication format &ndash; one that integrates manuscript publication with complete data hosting, and analysis tool incorporation. To encourage transparent reporting of scientific research as well as to enable future access and analyses, it is a requirement of manuscript submission to GigaScience that all supporting data and source code be made available in the GigaScience database,<a href=\u0022http://gigadb.org/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>&nbsp;GigaDB</a>, as well as in publicly available repositories. GigaScience will provide users access to associated online tools and workflows, and has integrated a data analysis platform, maximizing the potential utility and re-use of data.</p>\r\n<h5><strong>Contact:</strong></h5>\r\n<p>Dr. Scott Edmunds<br>Executive Editor, GigaScience, BGI Hong Kong<br>Tel: +852 3610 3531<br>Cell: +852 9249 0853<br>Email:&nbsp;<a href=\u0022mailto:scott@gigasciencejournal.com\u0022>scott@gigasciencejournal.com</a></p>",
            "temp_news_title": "River Valley launch publishing platform, completing their end-to-end publishing solution",
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RVHost delivers full analytics, including an innovative graphical &ldquo;history&rdquo; of a publication, together with any citations. The system is fully customisable, multi-lingual and content agnostic, allowing it to host any form of data or multimedia.</p>\r\n<p>RVHost will be launched in partnership with forward-looking STM journal,&nbsp;<em>GigaScience</em>, which will be using River Valley&rsquo;s complete end-to-end publishing system.</p>\r\n<p><em>GigaScience</em>&nbsp;Executive Editor,&nbsp;<strong><em>Scott Edmunds</em></strong>, explains that it would have been impossible to achieve the changes that the&nbsp;<em>GigaScience</em>&nbsp;team envisioned for new journal development without partnering with River Valley Technologies: &ldquo;In our seven years of pushing the boundaries of scientific publishing, our biggest frustration has been trying to work around legacy publishing obstacles. Working with River Valley Technologies &ndash; with their state-of-the-art, forward-thinking platforms &ndash; will finally allow us to put all our new ideas into practice.&rdquo;</p>\r\n<p><em>River Valley Technologies</em>&nbsp;Director,&nbsp;<strong><em>Kaveh Bazargan</em></strong>&nbsp;said: &ldquo;We designed RVHost to be powerful, yet simple to set up and to use. This means it is scalable and delivers time and cost savings for publishers of all sizes, from single-journal society publishers to those dealing with thousands of books and journals. The architecture is particularly suitable for a community platform for related publishers. Working with our highly innovative launch partner,&nbsp;<em>GigaScience</em>, will allow us to use the many features of RVHost to revolutionize how research is communicated.&rdquo;</p>\r\n<p>RVHost works beautifully on all devices, including mobile phones, and allows the reader to select their viewing preferences with options to view content in a larger typeface, or even in a typeface for people with dyslexia. When used with other River Valley platforms, RVHost delivers further benefits including the instant creation of personalised PDFs, and a comprehensive history of every manuscript. Publishing new versions of articles becomes an efficient and painless process.</p>\r\n<p>The database architecture of RVHost has been designed to make transfer from other platforms easy &ndash; any legacy data is transferred losslessly and automatically during transition from other hosting platforms.</p>\r\n<p><em>Kaveh Bazargan</em>&nbsp;added: &ldquo;RVHost fully supports Open Access publishing, ensuring compliance with Plan S. We ask all participating journals to adopt the COPE/DOAJ principles of transparency to ensure ethical publishing.&rdquo;</p>\r\n<p>RVHost links with a wide range of third party systems, including reference managers and metrics tools.</p>\r\n<p>&mdash; ends &mdash;</p>\r\n<h4><em>About River Valley Technologies</em></h4>\r\n<p>River Valley&rsquo;s mission is to accelerate scholarly communication. The company aims to streamline the publishing process through automation and easy-to-use platforms, helping STM societies and publishers manage their content more efficiently and deliver content to readers faster and more cost-effectively.</p>\r\n<p>Developed in-house, River Valley&rsquo;s proprietary platforms address the pain points felt by stakeholders, from researchers preparing their manuscripts to publishers requiring perfect XML. The system deals with all admin, allowing clients to focus on creating content.</p>\r\n<p>River Valley was established in 1988 by Kaveh Bazargan. A physicist by training, his intense interest in the emerging area of desktop publishing led him to start the company with the mission of delivering cutting edge solutions to academic publishers. Some 10 years ago, the company pioneered the first online authoring system and today boasts a number of publishing platforms, including: RVRite for collaborative authoring; ProofCheck for author proof checking; RVFormatter for automated conversion of XML to PDF; and ReView for intuitive peer review.</p>\r\n<p>With Head Office in London and 3 offices in India, River Valley supports clients across EMEA, the USA and Asia. Clients include Cambridge University Press, The IET, De Gruyter, IOS Press, American Physical Society, The Sphere Association and IOP Publishing.</p>\r\n<h5><strong>Contact:</strong></h5>\r\n<p>Maryam Bazargan<br>Email:&nbsp;<a href=\u0022mailto:Maryam@rivervalleytechnologies.com\u0022>Maryam@rivervalleytechnologies.com<br></a><a href=\u0022http://www.rivervalleytechnologies.com/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>www.rivervalleytechnologies.com</a></p>\r\n<h4><em>About GigaScience</em></h4>\r\n<p><a href=\u0022http://www.gigasciencejournal.com/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>GigaScience</a>&nbsp;is co-published by&nbsp;<a href=\u0022http://www.genomics.cn/en/index\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>BGI</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\u0022https://global.oup.com/?cc=us\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>Oxford University Press</a>. The journal covers research that uses or produces &lsquo;big data&rsquo; from the full spectrum of the life sciences. It also serves as a forum for discussing the difficulties of and unique needs for handling large-scale data from all areas of the life sciences. The journal has a completely novel publication format &ndash; one that integrates manuscript publication with complete data hosting, and analysis tool incorporation. To encourage transparent reporting of scientific research as well as to enable future access and analyses, it is a requirement of manuscript submission to GigaScience that all supporting data and source code be made available in the GigaScience database,<a href=\u0022http://gigadb.org/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>&nbsp;GigaDB</a>, as well as in publicly available repositories. GigaScience will provide users access to associated online tools and workflows, and has integrated a data analysis platform, maximizing the potential utility and re-use of data.</p>\r\n<h5><strong>Contact:</strong></h5>\r\n<p>Dr. Scott Edmunds<br>Executive Editor, GigaScience, BGI Hong Kong<br>Tel: +852 3610 3531<br>Cell: +852 9249 0853<br>Email:&nbsp;<a href=\u0022mailto:scott@gigasciencejournal.com\u0022>scott@gigasciencejournal.com</a></p>",
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            "temp_new_content": "<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><img src=\u0022https://staging-rvt.rivervalleytechnologies.in/admin/backend/storage/app/public/uploads/news_content/bioarchive-logo-e1630556856442.png\u0022 alt=\u0022\u0022 width=\u0022880\u0022 height=\u0022361\u0022></p>\r\n<p><strong>London, UK, 4 April 2018</strong>&nbsp;&ndash; Authors of biology and biomedical papers can now choose to submit to a journal directly from bioRxiv, as well as submit to bioRxiv automatically from a journal, thanks to the &ldquo;two-way&rdquo; integration of River Valley&rsquo;s ReView platform with bioRxiv&rsquo;s systems.</p>\r\n<p>The automated acceptance of papers from bioRxiv (B2J) has already been available in ReView for some time. With the latest implementation (J2B), any publisher using ReView as their submission and peer review platform can opt to allow authors to submit their papers as a preprint to bioRxiv, simultaneously with submission to the journal, with no extra effort.</p>\r\n<p>River Valley&rsquo;s&nbsp;<strong>Kaveh Bazargan</strong>&nbsp;said: &ldquo;<em>bioRxiv is one of the most popular preprint servers. ReView&rsquo;s two-way integration simplifies submissions to and from bioRxiv. We have worked hand in hand with bioRxiv&rsquo;s technical team to complete the integration.</em>&rdquo;</p>\r\n<p><strong>John Inglis</strong>, co-founder of bioRxiv said:&nbsp;<em>&ldquo;We are delighted that this most recent integration between submission systems extends the options available to authors of scientific papers. &nbsp;The transfer of manuscripts into and out of bioRxiv is an immensely popular feature of the server and it has been a pleasure to work with River Valley&rsquo;s team to bring the underlying technologies to even more journals&rdquo;</em>.</p>\r\n<p>Publishers using ReView have full control over this integration. ReView is already integrated with a wide range of external systems, most recently with CASRAI CRediT, allowing granular attribution of roles to authors.</p>\r\n<p>[ends]</p>\r\n<h4><em>About River Valley Technologies</em></h4>\r\n<p>River Valley Technologies was set up in 1988 in the UK by Dr Kaveh Bazargan. A physicist by training, his intense interest in the emerging area of electronic publishing led him to start a service company with the aim of delivering cutting edge technology to academic publishers. The company has expanded internationally, and remains at the forefront of publishing technology.</p>\r\n<p>River Valley was one of the first companies to embrace &ldquo;authoring in the cloud&rdquo;, with the first incarnation of RVRite some 10 years ago. The company continues to look at areas of publishing that can be improved or automated, with the fundamental goal of speeding up scholarly communication.</p>\r\n<p>River Valley&rsquo;s vision is to streamline and to automate the publishing process through its suite of platforms, which include:</p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><strong>RVRite</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;(Collaborative online authoring and automated XML conversion)</li>\r\n<li><strong>ReView</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;(Intuitive submission and peer review platform)</li>\r\n<li><strong>ProofCheck</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;(Online author proofing system)</li>\r\n<li><strong>RVFormatter</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;(Automated XML to PDF converter)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>River Valley continues to deliver the highest level of typesetting services to its publishing clients through the use of its cloud-based platforms.</p>\r\n<p>River Valley&rsquo;s clients include&nbsp;<strong>Cambridge University Press</strong>,&nbsp;<strong>The IET</strong>,&nbsp;<strong>De Gruyter</strong>,&nbsp;<strong>BMJ</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>IOP Publishing</strong>.</p>\r\n<h4><em>About bioRxiv</em></h4>\r\n<p>bioRxiv (pronounced &ldquo;bio-archive&rdquo;) (www.bioRxiv.org) &nbsp;is a free online archive and distribution service for&nbsp;unpublished preprints&nbsp;in the life sciences. It is operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a not-for-profit research and educational institution and supported by the Laboratory and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. &nbsp;By posting preprints on bioRxiv, authors are able to make their findings immediately available to the scientific community and receive feedback on draft manuscripts before they are submitted to journals.</p>\r\n<h5><strong>Contact</strong>:</h5>\r\n<p>Maryam Bazargan<br><a href=\u0022mailto:Maryam@RiverValleyTechnologies.com\u0022>Maryam@RiverValleyTechnologies.com</a><br><a href=\u0022https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.rivervalleytechnologies.com&amp;d=DwMFaQ&amp;c=mkpgQs82XaCKIwNV8b32dmVOmERqJe4bBOtF0CetP9Y&amp;r=CMajIxSJIHufMlkG0lLesg&amp;m=eLWxYnV0lKwLgw1ETYRQaFWnO5_aMN1pmrlXMj0B3Kw&amp;s=69N3eL9Xxl814i-w3tMaw8LriTm26mzN8keZfl5f-Cs&amp;e=\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>www.RiverValleyTechnologies.com</a></p>",
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            "news_content": "<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><img src=\u0022https://staging-rvt.rivervalleytechnologies.in/admin/backend/storage/app/public/uploads/news_content/bioarchive-logo-e1630556856442.png\u0022 alt=\u0022\u0022 width=\u0022880\u0022 height=\u0022361\u0022></p>\r\n<p><strong>London, UK, 4 April 2018</strong>&nbsp;&ndash; Authors of biology and biomedical papers can now choose to submit to a journal directly from bioRxiv, as well as submit to bioRxiv automatically from a journal, thanks to the &ldquo;two-way&rdquo; integration of River Valley&rsquo;s ReView platform with bioRxiv&rsquo;s systems.</p>\r\n<p>The automated acceptance of papers from bioRxiv (B2J) has already been available in ReView for some time. With the latest implementation (J2B), any publisher using ReView as their submission and peer review platform can opt to allow authors to submit their papers as a preprint to bioRxiv, simultaneously with submission to the journal, with no extra effort.</p>\r\n<p>River Valley&rsquo;s&nbsp;<strong>Kaveh Bazargan</strong>&nbsp;said: &ldquo;<em>bioRxiv is one of the most popular preprint servers. ReView&rsquo;s two-way integration simplifies submissions to and from bioRxiv. We have worked hand in hand with bioRxiv&rsquo;s technical team to complete the integration.</em>&rdquo;</p>\r\n<p><strong>John Inglis</strong>, co-founder of bioRxiv said:&nbsp;<em>&ldquo;We are delighted that this most recent integration between submission systems extends the options available to authors of scientific papers. &nbsp;The transfer of manuscripts into and out of bioRxiv is an immensely popular feature of the server and it has been a pleasure to work with River Valley&rsquo;s team to bring the underlying technologies to even more journals&rdquo;</em>.</p>\r\n<p>Publishers using ReView have full control over this integration. ReView is already integrated with a wide range of external systems, most recently with CASRAI CRediT, allowing granular attribution of roles to authors.</p>\r\n<p>[ends]</p>\r\n<h4><em>About River Valley Technologies</em></h4>\r\n<p>River Valley Technologies was set up in 1988 in the UK by Dr Kaveh Bazargan. A physicist by training, his intense interest in the emerging area of electronic publishing led him to start a service company with the aim of delivering cutting edge technology to academic publishers. The company has expanded internationally, and remains at the forefront of publishing technology.</p>\r\n<p>River Valley was one of the first companies to embrace &ldquo;authoring in the cloud&rdquo;, with the first incarnation of RVRite some 10 years ago. The company continues to look at areas of publishing that can be improved or automated, with the fundamental goal of speeding up scholarly communication.</p>\r\n<p>River Valley&rsquo;s vision is to streamline and to automate the publishing process through its suite of platforms, which include:</p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><strong>RVRite</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;(Collaborative online authoring and automated XML conversion)</li>\r\n<li><strong>ReView</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;(Intuitive submission and peer review platform)</li>\r\n<li><strong>ProofCheck</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;(Online author proofing system)</li>\r\n<li><strong>RVFormatter</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;(Automated XML to PDF converter)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>River Valley continues to deliver the highest level of typesetting services to its publishing clients through the use of its cloud-based platforms.</p>\r\n<p>River Valley&rsquo;s clients include&nbsp;<strong>Cambridge University Press</strong>,&nbsp;<strong>The IET</strong>,&nbsp;<strong>De Gruyter</strong>,&nbsp;<strong>BMJ</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>IOP Publishing</strong>.</p>\r\n<h4><em>About bioRxiv</em></h4>\r\n<p>bioRxiv (pronounced &ldquo;bio-archive&rdquo;) (www.bioRxiv.org) &nbsp;is a free online archive and distribution service for&nbsp;unpublished preprints&nbsp;in the life sciences. It is operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a not-for-profit research and educational institution and supported by the Laboratory and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. &nbsp;By posting preprints on bioRxiv, authors are able to make their findings immediately available to the scientific community and receive feedback on draft manuscripts before they are submitted to journals.</p>\r\n<h5><strong>Contact</strong>:</h5>\r\n<p>Maryam Bazargan<br><a href=\u0022mailto:Maryam@RiverValleyTechnologies.com\u0022>Maryam@RiverValleyTechnologies.com</a><br><a href=\u0022https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.rivervalleytechnologies.com&amp;d=DwMFaQ&amp;c=mkpgQs82XaCKIwNV8b32dmVOmERqJe4bBOtF0CetP9Y&amp;r=CMajIxSJIHufMlkG0lLesg&amp;m=eLWxYnV0lKwLgw1ETYRQaFWnO5_aMN1pmrlXMj0B3Kw&amp;s=69N3eL9Xxl814i-w3tMaw8LriTm26mzN8keZfl5f-Cs&amp;e=\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>www.RiverValleyTechnologies.com</a></p>",
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            "temp_news_title": "Edinburgh University Press to use River Valley\u2019s ReView for submission and peer review in journals",
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            "news_title": "Edinburgh University Press to use River Valley\u2019s ReView for submission and peer review in journals",
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            "temp_new_content": "<p><img src=\u0022http://localhost/rvhost_rvt/backend/storage/app/public/uploads/news_content/Screen-Shot-2018-10-19-at-09.20.49-e1630557157179.png\u0022 alt=\u0022\u0022 width=\u0022644\u0022 height=\u0022259\u0022></p>\r\n<p><strong>London, UK, 12 October 2017</strong>&nbsp;&ndash; BMJ, a leading medical knowledge provider, has adopted ReView, River Valley&rsquo;s submission and peer review system, for&nbsp;<em>BMJ Open Science</em>&nbsp;(<a href=\u0022http://openscience.bmj.com/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022>http://openscience.bmj.com</a>) The new journal applies open science principles to preclinical research, and incorporates several innovative features in peer review.</p>\r\n<p>Transparency and reproducibility are at the heart of&nbsp;<em>BMJ Open Science</em>. Not only are reviews published alongside accepted manuscripts, but even the discussions between reviewers are open to the public! This &ldquo;extreme&rdquo; openness is possible thanks to ReView&rsquo;s flexible &ldquo;discussion module&rdquo; that is available to editors and reviewers throughout the review process.</p>\r\n<p>Claire Rawlinson, Publisher at BMJ, said: &ldquo;<em>BMJ Open Science</em>&nbsp;promotes open, transparent, and reproducible research. The requirements for the submission and peer review process are unusual and complex. We needed a system that was customisable and able to integrate easily with the many third-party initiatives that are important for open science.&nbsp; ReView&rsquo;s flexibility to adapt has allowed us to configure it to our precise requirements.&rdquo;</p>\r\n<p>Amongst the features included for&nbsp;<em>BMJ Open Science</em>&nbsp;are River Valley&rsquo;s latest reporting module that literally needs no training, the facility for direct submission of preprints from bioRxiv, and a configurable implementation of CASRAI&rsquo;s CRediT authorship taxonomy, giving authors granular recognition for their contribution.</p>\r\n<p>River Valley&rsquo;s CTO, Kaveh Bazargan, said: &ldquo;We built ReView from the ground up using the latest web technologies, ensuring maximum flexibility and usability. We are proud to be working with BMJ&rsquo;s dynamic team and to be meeting the challenges posed by their exciting new journal.&rdquo;</p>\r\n<p>[ends]</p>\r\n<h4><em>About River Valley Technologies</em></h4>\r\n<p>River Valley Technologies was set up in 1988 in the UK by Dr Kaveh Bazargan. A physicist by training, his intense interest in the emerging area of electronic publishing led him to start a service company with the aim of delivering cutting edge composition and technology to academic publishers. The company remains at the forefront of publishing technology.</p>\r\n<p>River Valley was one of the first companies to embrace &ldquo;authoring in the cloud&rdquo;, with the first incarnation of RVRite some 10 years ago. The company continues to look at areas of publishing that can be improved or automated, with the fundamental goal of speeding up scholarly communication.</p>\r\n<p>River Valley&rsquo;s vision is to streamline and to automate the publishing process through its suite of platforms, which include:</p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>MagicWord and MagicTeX (Manuscript to XML conversion)</li>\r\n<li>RVRite (Collaborative online authoring)</li>\r\n<li>ReView (Intuitive submission and peer review platform)</li>\r\n<li>ProofCheck (Online author proofing system)</li>\r\n<li>RVFormatter (Automated XML to PDF converter)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>River Valley continues to deliver highest level of typesetting services to its publishing clients through the use of its cloud-based platforms.</p>\r\n<p>River Valley&rsquo;s clients include Cambridge University Press, Nature Publishing Group, The IET, and IOP Publishing.</p>\r\n<h5><strong>Contact</strong></h5>\r\n<p>Maryam Bazargan<br>Maryam@RiverValleyTechnologies.com<br><a href=\u0022http://www.rivervalleytechnologies.com/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>www.RiverValleyTechnologies.com</a></p>",
            "temp_news_title": "BMJ to use River Valley\u2019s ReView for their new Open Science journal",
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            "news_content": "<p><img src=\u0022http://localhost/rvhost_rvt/backend/storage/app/public/uploads/news_content/Screen-Shot-2018-10-19-at-09.20.49-e1630557157179.png\u0022 alt=\u0022\u0022 width=\u0022644\u0022 height=\u0022259\u0022></p>\r\n<p><strong>London, UK, 12 October 2017</strong>&nbsp;&ndash; BMJ, a leading medical knowledge provider, has adopted ReView, River Valley&rsquo;s submission and peer review system, for&nbsp;<em>BMJ Open Science</em>&nbsp;(<a href=\u0022http://openscience.bmj.com/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022>http://openscience.bmj.com</a>) The new journal applies open science principles to preclinical research, and incorporates several innovative features in peer review.</p>\r\n<p>Transparency and reproducibility are at the heart of&nbsp;<em>BMJ Open Science</em>. Not only are reviews published alongside accepted manuscripts, but even the discussions between reviewers are open to the public! This &ldquo;extreme&rdquo; openness is possible thanks to ReView&rsquo;s flexible &ldquo;discussion module&rdquo; that is available to editors and reviewers throughout the review process.</p>\r\n<p>Claire Rawlinson, Publisher at BMJ, said: &ldquo;<em>BMJ Open Science</em>&nbsp;promotes open, transparent, and reproducible research. The requirements for the submission and peer review process are unusual and complex. We needed a system that was customisable and able to integrate easily with the many third-party initiatives that are important for open science.&nbsp; ReView&rsquo;s flexibility to adapt has allowed us to configure it to our precise requirements.&rdquo;</p>\r\n<p>Amongst the features included for&nbsp;<em>BMJ Open Science</em>&nbsp;are River Valley&rsquo;s latest reporting module that literally needs no training, the facility for direct submission of preprints from bioRxiv, and a configurable implementation of CASRAI&rsquo;s CRediT authorship taxonomy, giving authors granular recognition for their contribution.</p>\r\n<p>River Valley&rsquo;s CTO, Kaveh Bazargan, said: &ldquo;We built ReView from the ground up using the latest web technologies, ensuring maximum flexibility and usability. We are proud to be working with BMJ&rsquo;s dynamic team and to be meeting the challenges posed by their exciting new journal.&rdquo;</p>\r\n<p>[ends]</p>\r\n<h4><em>About River Valley Technologies</em></h4>\r\n<p>River Valley Technologies was set up in 1988 in the UK by Dr Kaveh Bazargan. A physicist by training, his intense interest in the emerging area of electronic publishing led him to start a service company with the aim of delivering cutting edge composition and technology to academic publishers. The company remains at the forefront of publishing technology.</p>\r\n<p>River Valley was one of the first companies to embrace &ldquo;authoring in the cloud&rdquo;, with the first incarnation of RVRite some 10 years ago. The company continues to look at areas of publishing that can be improved or automated, with the fundamental goal of speeding up scholarly communication.</p>\r\n<p>River Valley&rsquo;s vision is to streamline and to automate the publishing process through its suite of platforms, which include:</p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>MagicWord and MagicTeX (Manuscript to XML conversion)</li>\r\n<li>RVRite (Collaborative online authoring)</li>\r\n<li>ReView (Intuitive submission and peer review platform)</li>\r\n<li>ProofCheck (Online author proofing system)</li>\r\n<li>RVFormatter (Automated XML to PDF converter)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>River Valley continues to deliver highest level of typesetting services to its publishing clients through the use of its cloud-based platforms.</p>\r\n<p>River Valley&rsquo;s clients include Cambridge University Press, Nature Publishing Group, The IET, and IOP Publishing.</p>\r\n<h5><strong>Contact</strong></h5>\r\n<p>Maryam Bazargan<br>Maryam@RiverValleyTechnologies.com<br><a href=\u0022http://www.rivervalleytechnologies.com/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>www.RiverValleyTechnologies.com</a></p>",
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            "temp_new_content": "<p><img src=\u0022http://localhost/rvhost_rvt/backend/storage/app/public/uploads/news_content/Screen-Shot-2018-10-19-at-09.24.23-e1630557293423.png\u0022 alt=\u0022\u0022 width=\u0022553\u0022 height=\u0022251\u0022></p>\r\n<p><strong>London, UK, 31 July, 2017</strong>&nbsp;&ndash; After evaluating several competing products in 2016, De Gruyter, one of the world&rsquo;s leading journal publishers, has chosen River Valley&rsquo;s online proofing platform, ProofCheck.</p>\r\n<p>Like many other publishers, De Gruyter had been sending authors their proofs in PDF format for annotation. &nbsp;Authors&rsquo; corrections would then be implemented to produce the final publication. De Gruyter was looking for a faster and more reliable system in order to minimise admin within the publication workflows of their online-only journals.</p>\r\n<p>ProofCheck is the result of the application of River Valley&rsquo;s thorough knowledge of the publishing market and production requirements for almost 30 years, coupled with some 10 years of experience in development of online publishing platforms. ProofCheck makes the process of proof correction easier and faster for the author, the publisher, and the production vendor. Authors can make corrections to proofs as well as answer any editor queries using a browser, and without the need to download any files. They use an HTML interface, but are in fact editing the XML in real time. Production editors can then simply accepts or reject changes, and the corrected XML is automatically sent back to De Gruyter&rsquo;s vendor to produce the final publication.</p>\r\n<p>Collaborating closely with De Gruyter&rsquo;s specialist staff, River Valley&rsquo;s developers ensured that every type of content was catered for, including complex math, graphics and tables. ProofCheck tracks all changes using an innovative content tracker, so De&nbsp;Gruyter staff can see who made a change and when.</p>\r\n<p>Franziska Buehring, Senior Manager Production Standards and Solutions at De Gruyter, said:&nbsp;<em>&ldquo;ProofCheck improves the authors&rsquo; experience at the critical stage of correction. Because the content is saved as XML at all times, the accuracy of the archived XML was also increased. We are confident that this solution allows us to better serve the needs of our authors.&rdquo;</em></p>\r\n<p>River Valley&rsquo;s Kaveh Bazargan said:&nbsp;<em>&ldquo;It has been a pleasure to work with the knowledgeable staff of De Gruyter who have been just as particular about the quality of the content and the user interface as River Valley&rsquo;s developers and UX designers. We look forward to a long relationship with De&nbsp;Gruyter.&rdquo;</em></p>\r\n<p>[ends]</p>\r\n<h4><em>About River Valley Technologies</em></h4>\r\n<p>River Valley Technologies was set up in 1988 in the UK by Dr Kaveh Bazargan. A physicist by training, his intense interest in the emerging area of desktop publishing led him to start a service company with the aim of delivering cutting edge technology to academic publishers. The company has expanded internationally, and remains at the forefront of publishing technology.</p>\r\n<p>River Valley was one of the first companies to embrace &ldquo;authoring in the cloud&rdquo;, with the first incarnation of RVRite some 10 years ago. The company continues to look at areas of publishing that can be improved or automated, with the fundamental goal of speeding up scholarly communication.</p>\r\n<p>River Valley&rsquo;s vision is to automate the publishing process through the RVPublisher suite of platforms that includes MagicWord and MagicTeX (Manuscript to XML conversion), RVRite (Collaborative online authoring), ReView (intuitive peer review platform), ProofCheck (online author proofing system), and RVFormatter (automated PDF generator).</p>\r\n<p>River Valley&rsquo;s clients include Cambridge University Press, Nature Publishing Group, The IET and IOP Publishing.</p>\r\n<p>For more information, visit:&nbsp;<a href=\u0022https://rivervalley.io/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022>www.RiverValleyTechnologies.com</a></p>\r\n<h4><em>About De Gruyter</em></h4>\r\n<p><strong>De Gruyter</strong>&nbsp;publishes first-class scholarship and has done so for more than 260 years. An international, independent publisher headquartered in Berlin &mdash; and with further offices in Boston, Beijing, Basel, Vienna, Warsaw and Munich &mdash; it publishes over 1,300 new book titles each year and more than 800 journals in the humanities, social sciences, medicine, mathematics, engineering, computer sciences, natural sciences, and law.</p>\r\n<p>The publishing house also offers a wide range of digital media, including open access journals and books. The group includes the imprints De Gruyter Akademie Forschung, Birkh&auml;user, De Gruyter Mouton, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, De&nbsp;Gruyter Open, De&nbsp;Gruyter Saur and De|G Press. For more information, visit:&nbsp;<a href=\u0022http://www.degruyter.com/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022>www.degruyter.com</a></p>\r\n<h5><strong>Contact</strong></h5>\r\n<p>Maryam Bazargan<br>Maryam@RiverValleyTechnologies.com</p>",
            "temp_news_title": "De Gruyter streamlines author proofing by using River Valley\u2019s ProofCheck system",
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Production editors can then simply accepts or reject changes, and the corrected XML is automatically sent back to De Gruyter&rsquo;s vendor to produce the final publication.</p>\r\n<p>Collaborating closely with De Gruyter&rsquo;s specialist staff, River Valley&rsquo;s developers ensured that every type of content was catered for, including complex math, graphics and tables. ProofCheck tracks all changes using an innovative content tracker, so De&nbsp;Gruyter staff can see who made a change and when.</p>\r\n<p>Franziska Buehring, Senior Manager Production Standards and Solutions at De Gruyter, said:&nbsp;<em>&ldquo;ProofCheck improves the authors&rsquo; experience at the critical stage of correction. Because the content is saved as XML at all times, the accuracy of the archived XML was also increased. We are confident that this solution allows us to better serve the needs of our authors.&rdquo;</em></p>\r\n<p>River Valley&rsquo;s Kaveh Bazargan said:&nbsp;<em>&ldquo;It has been a pleasure to work with the knowledgeable staff of De Gruyter who have been just as particular about the quality of the content and the user interface as River Valley&rsquo;s developers and UX designers. We look forward to a long relationship with De&nbsp;Gruyter.&rdquo;</em></p>\r\n<p>[ends]</p>\r\n<h4><em>About River Valley Technologies</em></h4>\r\n<p>River Valley Technologies was set up in 1988 in the UK by Dr Kaveh Bazargan. A physicist by training, his intense interest in the emerging area of desktop publishing led him to start a service company with the aim of delivering cutting edge technology to academic publishers. The company has expanded internationally, and remains at the forefront of publishing technology.</p>\r\n<p>River Valley was one of the first companies to embrace &ldquo;authoring in the cloud&rdquo;, with the first incarnation of RVRite some 10 years ago. The company continues to look at areas of publishing that can be improved or automated, with the fundamental goal of speeding up scholarly communication.</p>\r\n<p>River Valley&rsquo;s vision is to automate the publishing process through the RVPublisher suite of platforms that includes MagicWord and MagicTeX (Manuscript to XML conversion), RVRite (Collaborative online authoring), ReView (intuitive peer review platform), ProofCheck (online author proofing system), and RVFormatter (automated PDF generator).</p>\r\n<p>River Valley&rsquo;s clients include Cambridge University Press, Nature Publishing Group, The IET and IOP Publishing.</p>\r\n<p>For more information, visit:&nbsp;<a href=\u0022https://rivervalley.io/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022>www.RiverValleyTechnologies.com</a></p>\r\n<h4><em>About De Gruyter</em></h4>\r\n<p><strong>De Gruyter</strong>&nbsp;publishes first-class scholarship and has done so for more than 260 years. An international, independent publisher headquartered in Berlin &mdash; and with further offices in Boston, Beijing, Basel, Vienna, Warsaw and Munich &mdash; it publishes over 1,300 new book titles each year and more than 800 journals in the humanities, social sciences, medicine, mathematics, engineering, computer sciences, natural sciences, and law.</p>\r\n<p>The publishing house also offers a wide range of digital media, including open access journals and books. The group includes the imprints De Gruyter Akademie Forschung, Birkh&auml;user, De Gruyter Mouton, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, De&nbsp;Gruyter Open, De&nbsp;Gruyter Saur and De|G Press. For more information, visit:&nbsp;<a href=\u0022http://www.degruyter.com/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022>www.degruyter.com</a></p>\r\n<h5><strong>Contact</strong></h5>\r\n<p>Maryam Bazargan<br>Maryam@RiverValleyTechnologies.com</p>",
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            "news_title": "IET adopt River Valley\u2019s ReView as their journal submission and peer review platform",
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            "temp_news_title": "IET opts for River Valley\u2019s ReView platform for member management",
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Subsequent stages such as peer review, copy editing and proof correction are all carried out directly on the XML file but using a familiar WYSIWYG interface. An integrated version control system keeps track of the complete editing history.</p>\r\n<p>The American Physical Society (APS) has adopted the full suite of RVPublisher modules for its online publication,&nbsp;<em>Physics</em>. The system, especially configured by River Valley, has the following unique advantages for APS:</p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Decide the precise time of publication, without the need for an external typesetting vendor.</li>\r\n<li>Any late changes can be entered into the system and the XML and PDF generated and published in a matter of seconds.</li>\r\n<li>Journal editor can accept or reject any editorial changes, with confidence that all textual changes (and the name of the operator making the change) are clearly highlighted.</li>\r\n<li>Images and even videos can be imported at multiple resolutions.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>Mark Doyle, Chief Information Officer at the APS said:&nbsp;<em>&ldquo;RVPublisher is a sophisticated XML/MathML content editing system that allows the editorial staff of Physics to rapidly create, update, and publish articles with a push of a button while maintaining tight deadlines and without concern about the underlying markup. Working with RVT, we have been able to finely tailor the system to our very specific technical requirements and worklfow.</em>&rdquo;</p>\r\n<p>The pagination module within RVPublisher (RVFormatter) allows for a manuscript or book to be instantly published as HTML, PDF and Epub (and even Word!) at any stage in the process. Resultant PDFs can be a standard file, or one of River Valley&rsquo;s unique &ldquo;Smart PDFs&rdquo; allowing optional information to appear when the user hovers the mouse over relevant links.</p>\r\n<p>River Valley&rsquo;s 500 man-years&rsquo; experience with handling mathematics has been incorporated into RVPublisher in order to ensure that it is a comfortable environment even for authors writing mathematics. Authors can even enter math content by using LaTeX commands directly. In the XML file, the mathematics is then seamlessly converted to MathML, using sophisticated conversion filters which can even encode subtle math spacing. 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We look forward to continuing to push the boundaries through our close cooperation with APS.</em>&rdquo;</p>\r\n<p>&mdash; Ends &mdash;</p>\r\n<h4><em>About River Valley Technologies</em></h4>\r\n<p>River Valley Technologies was set up in 1988 in the UK by Dr Kaveh Bazargan. &nbsp;A physicist by training, his intense interest in the emerging area of desktop publishing led him to start a service company with the aim of delivering cutting edge technology to academic publishers. Some 27 years later, the company has expanded internationally, and remains at the forefront of typesetting and publishing technology.</p>\r\n<p>River Valley was one of the first companies to embrace authoring &ldquo;in the cloud&rdquo;, with the first incarnation of RVPublisher some 8 years ago. The company continues to look at areas of publishing that can be improved or automated, including a major new initiative of &ldquo;structured graphics&rdquo; where illustrations in publications are linked to the main text, and not simply placed as separate items.</p>\r\n<p>River Valley clients include Cambridge University Press, IOP Publishing and The Institution of Engineering and Technology</p>\r\n<p>For further information contact:<br>Kaveh Bazargan<br>Kaveh@rivervalleytechnologies.com<br><a href=\u0022http://www.rivervalleytechnologies.com/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022>www.rivervalleytechnologies.com</a></p>",
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Working with RVT, we have been able to finely tailor the system to our very specific technical requirements and worklfow.</em>&rdquo;</p>\r\n<p>The pagination module within RVPublisher (RVFormatter) allows for a manuscript or book to be instantly published as HTML, PDF and Epub (and even Word!) at any stage in the process. Resultant PDFs can be a standard file, or one of River Valley&rsquo;s unique &ldquo;Smart PDFs&rdquo; allowing optional information to appear when the user hovers the mouse over relevant links.</p>\r\n<p>River Valley&rsquo;s 500 man-years&rsquo; experience with handling mathematics has been incorporated into RVPublisher in order to ensure that it is a comfortable environment even for authors writing mathematics. Authors can even enter math content by using LaTeX commands directly. In the XML file, the mathematics is then seamlessly converted to MathML, using sophisticated conversion filters which can even encode subtle math spacing. 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