Can't OCS 2.0 handle revisions?

[ozcelik]

Hi,

I have a question and couldn't find a clear answer in the forum:

When a reviewer's decision is "Revisions Required", it seems that there is no way in OCS to start the revision process. Even though the author uploads her revised submission and lets the track director of her action by the internal email, the director can not reassign the paper to the reviewer requesting revisions. Am I missing something? How to proceed in this case?

Regards,

Yasin

[jmacgreg]

Hi Yasin,

You are correct, more or less. OCS only supports a single round of reviews, unlike OJS, although it supports individual reviews for each part of the submission (abstracts, and then papers). When the Director chooses "Revisions Required" he can give further instructions for the author to upload a revised version in the outgoing email; but the submission can't then be resubmitted for review.

Cheers,
James

[ozcelik]

Hi James,

I appreciate your response. In an ideal world, all submissions will be accepted without any revision request. However, that is not what happens in practice. So, the conference manager needs to act like an editor and communicate with authors to have them make required changes. It would have been nice if OCS has also "Revise and Resubmit" option as well. Consider it as an item in my wish list for the upcoming version of OCS.

Regards,

Jason

[jmacgreg]

Hi Jason,

Your feedback is much appreciated. I can't promise anything, but I'll send this thread on to the OCS developers, and they can consider adding the option.

Take care,
James