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Kriya Kaleidoscope

March 2019 | Issue 3

This issue of Kriya Kaleidoscope looks at why insights need not always be counterintuitive for them to be inspirational - a flash of the blindingly obvious can actually serve to open our eyes! Leaving aside bad puns, we move on to an exciting announcement - Kriya for Review, our peer review workflow solution, is in alpha stage of development and we are keen to have on-board users who would like to help us build a robust system. Exeter had great interactions at the London Book Fair and will be at the Markup UK conference in June.

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Or was that too obvious?

Every once in a while, I come across articles that seem like common sense. Journalistic or academic, I am left wondering if there was a searing insight in the content that I failed to grasp. This Dilbert cartoon says it better than I ever could.

To be fair, most of these studies or analyses are efforts to prove (or disprove) popular hypotheses or anecdotal wisdom with hard data (and sometimes, with more anecdotes). “Middle-school children who complete their mathematics homework 90% of the time are 75% more likely to get higher grades” is perhaps more impressive and persuasive than, “Do your homework and you will get higher grades”. This statistic is made-up but it makes the point about the value of obvious insights.

In the context of organizations, obvious insights have a powerful role to play - they help people overcome barriers to change.

Read this MITSloan article on how this can happen. An excerpt - "My favorite way to make obvious effects interesting is to quantify the big impact of small changes. Is it obvious that you’ll be more productive if your desk is near a high performer? Probably. But would you have guessed that sitting near a single star appears to boost your productivity by 15%?"

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Kriya for Review

Cloud based solution for efficient and streamlined peer review process

Exeter is excited to introduce a peer review workflow solution as part of the Kriya platform. The peer review workflow will be integrated with the post-acceptance process in Kriya and thus aid in end-to-end management of the content from manuscript to print-ready stage.

Some salient aspects of the workflow are -

XML-driven process automation - configurable workflows, structured content, manuscript XML can be maintained from this stage through post-acceptance
User-friendly interface and navigation - Highly intuitive interfaces, user-friendly query resolution mechanism
Role-based access - Efficient reviews with fewer cycles, role-based access for reviewers and editors, single or double blind review
Control and visibility for publishers - to plan, track and manage the entire review cycle - invite reviewers, assign to reviewers, track review status, provide recommendations, add comments and queries, terminate review, receive alerts and notifications

Double-blind review

We are looking for alpha users who would validate the capabilities of the system and provide inputs for building a robust solution. Please reach out to us if you would like to be participate in this process.

London Book Fair 2019

Exeter showcased Kriya for Peer Review at the LBF. We also demonstrated new capabilities of Kriya for journals and books workflows during meetings with visitors. We have received good feedback and valuable inputs that we plan to incorporate into the Kriya platform.

We will be at the Markup UK 2019 at London (7-9 June). Will we see you there? Contact us to set up a meeting.