Built for Every Kind of
Scholarly Publisher
From independent journals and learned societies to university presses and multi-journal publishers, Manna adapts to your editorial structure, peer-review model and publishing requirements.
Manage an Entire Journal Portfolio from One Platform
Manna Manuscript gives academic and commercial publishers centralized oversight across multiple journals while allowing each publication to retain its own editorial structure, peer-review model and workflow.
Publisher administrators can monitor submissions, review activity, editorial bottlenecks and production status across the portfolio without forcing every journal into the same process.
- Multi-journal administration and consolidated reporting
- Journal-specific editorial workflows and permissions
- Central reviewer and editorial-board management
- Crossref DOI registration and JATS XML production
- Portfolio-level analytics and manuscript tracking
Multi-journal management switchboard with journal tracking, volume/issue status, and submission analytics.
Configurable editorial roles, multi-stage review assignments, and custom governance pipelines.
Preserve Editorial Independence While Modernising the Workflow
Professional societies and scholarly associations often depend on academic editors and volunteer reviewers while maintaining rigorous editorial policies.
Manna provides a configurable peer review system that supports society governance, journal-specific editorial roles and structured review workflows while keeping publication decisions with the society’s authorised editors.
- Single-blind and double-blind peer review
- Configurable editorial roles and approval stages
- Reviewer invitations, deadlines and reminders
- Research-integrity screening with Manna Plag
- Complete editorial decision history
A Publishing Platform for University Presses and Research Institutions
Manage journals across departments, schools and research centres while maintaining journal-level editorial autonomy and institution-level oversight.
Manna Manuscript connects submission, peer review, research-integrity checks, production and publication within one scholarly publishing environment.
- Multiple journals under one institutional account
- Separate editorial boards and workflows by journal
- Author, reviewer and editor role management
- JATS XML and DOI workflows
- Institutional reporting and journal-level analytics
Centralized pre-press and page-setting management across university departments, journals, and volume records.
Centralized author registry, submission tracking, and contributor recognition for independent editorial teams.
Professional Journal Management Without Enterprise Complexity
Independent, scholar-led and small publishing teams need the same structured submission and peer-review capabilities as larger publishers, without building or maintaining a complicated publishing infrastructure.
Manna provides one environment for manuscript submission, editorial processing, reviewer coordination, production and publication.
- Guided online manuscript submission
- Reviewer and editorial workflow management
- Automated reminders and status tracking
- Built-in research-integrity workflow
- DOI and JATS XML production support
Built for Sustainable Open Access Publishing
Open Access and Diamond Open Access journals need efficient editorial operations, standards-ready production and broad content discoverability without adding unnecessary administrative overhead.
Manna connects manuscript management, peer review, structured metadata, DOI registration and content-distribution workflows in one platform.
- Configurable peer-review workflows
- Crossref DOI registration
- JATS XML production
- ORCID and metadata integration
- OAI-PMH and distribution workflows
- Multi-journal administration
Automated content distribution and repository deposit across global discovery portals (BASE, EBSCO, Gale, DOAJ).
Unified conference registration, multi-track symposium submissions, and proceedings volume publishing.
Manage Conference Submissions and Proceedings Alongside Journals
Coordinate paper submissions, review workflows, editorial decisions and proceedings publication using the same structured publishing environment.
Manna gives conference chairs and organizing committees a unified system for managing tracks, peer review, presenter communication and final volume output.
- Track-based multi-stage paper submissions
- Committee and peer reviewer assignments
- Camera-ready manuscript validation
- Crossref DOI registration for proceedings
- Rapid publication and archive dissemination
Common Capabilities Across Every Solution
Regardless of your organization’s size or discipline, Manna delivers an uncompromising technological foundation for scholarly publishing.
Unified 16-Stage Ledger
Every submission, review comment, editorial decision, and production file remains permanently linked in one continuous immutable record.
COPE & Integrity Guard
Native plagiarism screening (Manna Plag), AI generated text analysis, and Crossref citation verification embedded into intake.
Standards-Ready Production
Automated JATS 1.3 XML export, DOI allocation, Crossref metadata synchronization, and indexing protocol support out of the box.
Enterprise Security
SOC2 readiness, full GDPR compliance, role-based granular permissions, TLS 1.3 encryption, and automated daily off-site backups.
Migrating from Open Journal Systems (OJS) or Legacy Databases?
We provide zero-loss migration for published archives, registered DOIs, reviewer databases, and active submissions without publishing downtime.
See What Your Journal Workflow Would Look Like Inside Manna.
We’ll configure a live demonstration around your journals, editorial stages, review model and production requirements, so you can see how Manna fits your actual workflow.