Building Bridges with the Manuscript Exchange Common Approach (MECA) - The Scholarly Kitchen

"Two specific workflows precipitated the formation of MECA, focused on reducing the effort of authors during the submission process, and allowing reviewers to “reuse” reviews. Specifically, MECA is focused on: Cascading workflows, where articles submitted to a journal are transferred to another journal within a publisher’s family of journals (an effort by publishers to not lose good research to other publishers), and Preprint servers, and the desire for both preprint servers and publishers to be able to push articles from preprint servers to journals and vice versa...."