The PDF of presentation (with clickable links) given at the above conference by Kaveh Bazargan can be downloaded here.

NEWS RELEASE 26 September 2023 New “Publish, Review, Curate” models of peer-review on showcased by GigaScience Press Journal Timed for Peer Review Week, GigaScience Press are announcing that their GigaByte Journal has integrated a novel “Publish, Review, Curate” (PRC) peer-review model, in partnership with eLife. Using the Sciety platform GigaByte...

NEWS RELEASE 11 October 2022 River Valley is proud to announce that GigaByte, a journal from its client, GigaScience Press, is a joint winner of the 2022 ALPSP Award for Innovation in Scholarly Publishing. The award was given in recognition of GigaByte’s solutions for addressing the UNESCO Recommendation on Open...

The International Society of Managing and Technical Editors (ISMTE) have awarded the 2022 Innovation award to River Valley Technologies, for their powerful and user-friendly submission and peer review platform, ReView. Director, Kaveh Bazargan, proudly accepted the award on behalf of the staff of River Valley whose tireless efforts over several...

In the following interview published by Research Information, 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. River Valley Technologies director Maryam Bazargan describes her early...

Tracking papers from submission to publication London – 15 October 2021 ICE Publishing is partnering with River Valley Technologies to introduce a new live data visualisation tool. DARVi (Data Analyser, Reporter, and Visualizer) will provide their editorial and production teams with an up to the minute view of their publishing...

London, United Kingdom, 25 July 2019 – River Valley Technologies announce the launch of RVHost, the innovative content hosting platform, and the final component of their XML-based end-to-end scholarly publishing solution. The platform gives unprecedented control to publishers over their content, thus allowing them to create a brand new journal...

London, UK, 4 April 2018 – 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 “two-way” integration of River Valley’s ReView platform with bioRxiv’s systems. The automated acceptance of...

London, UK, 2 March 2018 – River Valley have developed a new feature within their peer review platform, ReView, to recognise peer reviewers’ work. River Valley have worked closely with ORCID to allow reviewers who use the platform to update their ORCID records automatically with their reviews. Authors and peer reviewers...

London, UK, 21 November 2017 – Edinburgh University Press has become the latest prestigious publisher to sign up to ReView, River Valley’s submission and peer review system, in a bid to reduce admin and turnaround times on their journals. Sarah McDonald, Head of Journals at EUP, said: “ReView was intuitive...

London, UK, 12 October 2017 – BMJ, a leading medical knowledge provider, has adopted ReView, River Valley’s submission and peer review system, for BMJ Open Science (http://openscience.bmj.com) The new journal applies open science principles to preclinical research, and incorporates several innovative features in peer review. Transparency and reproducibility are at...

London, UK, 31 July, 2017 – After evaluating several competing products in 2016, De Gruyter, one of the world’s leading journal publishers, has chosen River Valley’s online proofing platform, ProofCheck. Like many other publishers, De Gruyter had been sending authors their proofs in PDF format for annotation. Authors’ corrections would...

London, UK, 1 Feb 2017 – The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), one of the world’s largest engineering institutions, has adopted River Valley’s “ReView”, the nimble and innovative manuscript submission and peer review system, for all their journals. The IET, who had been using ScholarOne for many years, will...

London, UK, 11 October, 2016 – The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), one of the world’s largest engineering institutions, is launching a new system for managing professional registration applications, such as Chartered Engineer and Incorporated Engineer. The IET grants these registrations on behalf of the Engineering Council UK, after...

London, UK, 7 April, 2016 – RVPublisher, launched end of 2014, is the innovative end-to-end production platform set to revolutionize scholarly publishing. The system is a “pure” XML based end-to-end publishing platform, comprising several modules that link seamlessly – from online collaborative authoring to peer review, proof checking, automated pagination,...

London, UK, 2 December, 2014 – River Valley Technologies, the 25 year old UK-based typesetting company is set to cut production costs and turn around times by half for publishers, by using its new RVPublisher platform. The system is a “pure” XML based end-to-end collaborative authoring and composition solution, comprising...

London, UK, 15 September, 2014 – River Valley Technologies, the leading providers of LaTeX and XML-first typesetting are turning the industry on its head by launching a completely automated XML-based publishing system, RVPublisher. The system is made up of several standalone “modules” that interconnect seamlessly. These include RVRite (River Valley’s...