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10 – 22 November 2023 General - Submission: major upgrade of the unzip/LaTeX compilation utility (and more to come)- Various language and typos corrections Editor interface: view on articles Due date correctionSetting due dates in the past is n...

6 December 2023 Adding the arXiv identifier Authors may now submit their arXiv identifier when submitting their article. To unlock this form, activate it in the article type configuration. If the author provides the arXiv identifier, this allows us...

11 January 2024 Article lists: the referee column By default, articles lists now display a column dedicated to active referees: The column is designed to provide relevant information (status and reminders) on referees currently working on the paper, t...

29 January 2024 Improvements of the production workflow Actions related to production are now conveniently gathered in a dedicated thumbnail: Article files of the last version remain available even when the article is in production: A new statu...

21 March 2024 🌻🌼🌹 Landing page behaviour The behaviour of Nestor at login has been refined according to your profile and activity. Depending on the following priorities, you will either land on the author, referee or editor dashboard: If you are edito...

15 May 2024 Referee reinvitations When the editor receives a revision, it is now easier to check the referee activity on previous versions and to reinvite the referee easily: Submission files: media type locking (file extensions) The...

10 June 2024 Automatic file renaming Note: a very cool feature, which must be first activated in the file type configuration. This new feature allows you to automatically rename author-submitted files according to their file types. This will be extremel...

26 June 2024 Classic referee search The classic search makes a come back, allowing editors to perform exact searches on referee names. In addition, wild cards are also available to get even more customization. You can switch between the two types of sea...

29 July 2024 More information on the assignment tool Editors-in-Chief will now benefit from a revamped interface to assign papers, where all the necessary information is summarized: Active editors Expertise fields of each editor Current workload Vari...

27 August 2024 LaTeX diff This feature is available for journals using the LaTeX compilation feature. Using this, Nestor compares two LaTeX source files and generates a comparison PDF. This is useful to track changes from one version to another.   Even...

2 October 2024 Journal-related features Refreshed articles In Nestor lists, delayed articles are tagged in red: This color is solely based on the article due date, whether it has passed or not. In some journals, this proved confusing for editors, who ...

When an editor leaves your editorial board, it is recommended to just disable his profile: This way: The user will still have access to his editing history. And most importantly can still finish the editorial process on pending articles where he/she is ...

19 December 2024 🌟🎄❄ Article workflow/user management When an EIC/EO unassigns someone: Nestor will now check if this editor is the (assigning) parent of someone else. If so, you will have to select a substitute parent to complete the action and maint...

30 January 2025 File transfers The way we handle file transfers and storage has received a much awaited update!  If you identify any hiccup when downloading/uploading a file from Nestor, please let us know at support@nestor-edp.org Improvement of the ...

17 March 2025 File types: automatic renaming This feature used to apply only during the author's submission. Automatic renamings will now be also applied in the back office, when an editor uploads a file via the file module, thus saving a few clicks to Ed...

1 April 2025 File types: pages and words counting This nice feature allows editorial offices to configure automatic counters. Typically, counting the number of pages of a manuscript when the author submits. You can set up the configuration at the file type...

14 May 2025 Authors and editors exports Following the referees' activity last year, we release two new data exports:- one concerning the author/co-author status on each article,- the other concerning editors These exports are available on any given list o...

16 June 2025 Standard, special and custom fields now all benefit from a unified configuration: For each metadata field, the label/description is now configurable, as well as joins with editor profiles and submission. This paves the way to 6.70, linkin...

You can assign yourself as a referee on the paper. In this case, you will receive the usual referee link to upload your referee report, and the author will receive this report grouped with other referee reports. Instead, please consider submitting an editor r...

In the referee module, click on the ‘Invite a referee’ button. If the journal requests this information during submission, you will have the possibility to invite the referee(s) suggested by the author. Declined referees can also suggest their own coll...