New England Journal of Medicine Selects ScholarOne's Manuscript Central for Online Peer Review

New England Journal of Medicine Selects ScholarOne's Manuscript Central for Online Peer Review

October 11, 2007

    PHILADELPHIA and LONDON, Oct. 11 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ --


    Thomson Scientific, part of The Thomson Corporation
(NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) and leading provider of information
solutions to the worldwide research and business
communities, today announced that the Massachusetts Medical
Society's New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has
selected ScholarOne's Manuscript Central as its online peer
review system. 

    The New England Journal of Medicine is a weekly general
medical journal that publishes new medical research
findings, review articles, and editorial opinion on a wide
variety of topics of importance to biomedical science and
clinical practice. Material is published with an emphasis
on internal medicine and specialty areas including
allergy/immunology, cardiology, endocrinology,
gastroenterology, hematology, kidney disease, oncology,
pulmonary disease, rheumatology, HIV, and infectious
diseases.

    "We are very pleased to welcome the New England
Journal of Medicine to the Manuscript Central user
community," said Keith MacGregor, executive vice
president of Academic and Government Markets at Thomson
Scientific. "As one of the largest, most distinguished
and most influential peer reviewed medical journals today,
we are pleased to partner with them to help innovate
medical technology and research."

    "Our goal in implementing Manuscript Central is to
increase the efficiency of our peer review process for
authors, reviewers, and editors," said Tad Campion,
M.D., Senior Deputy Editor and Online Editor for the New
England Journal of Medicine.

    Manuscript Central offers a number of features to
address scholarly publishers' needs, enabling users to
submit, review, annotate and format technical manuscripts
in innovative ways. In addition, the acquisition of
ScholarOne by Thomson Scientific gives authors and
publishers access to additional expertise in information
and tools that span the entire research process.

    About Massachusetts Medical Society

    The Massachusetts Medical Society, with more than
18,500 physicians and student members, is dedicated to
educating and advocating for the patients and physicians of
Massachusetts. The Society publishes the New England Journal
of Medicine, one of the world's leading medical journals;
the Journal Watch family of professional newsletters
covering 11 specialties; and AIDS Clinical Care. The
Society is also a leader in continuing medical education
for health care professionals throughout Massachusetts,
conducting a variety of medical education programs for
physicians and health care professionals. Founded in 1781,
MMS is the oldest continuously operating medical society in
the country.

    About ScholarOne, Inc.

    ScholarOne, Inc. (http://www.scholarone.com) provides
comprehensive workflow management systems for scholarly
journals, books, and conferences. Its Web-based
applications enable publishers to manage the submission,
peer review, production, and publication processes more
efficiently, increasing their profile among authors,
decreasing time-to-market for critical scientific data, and
lowering infrastructure costs. The Manuscript Central user
base has grown to 2.8 million registered users worldwide.

    The clients of ScholarOne include prestigious nonprofit
societies, university presses, government agencies, and the
world's leading commercial publishers. The company employs
80 people at its Charlottesville, Virginia, headquarters
and in Washington, D.C.; Boston; London; and Bielefeld,
Germany.

    About The Thomson Corporation

    The Thomson Corporation (http://www.thomson.com) is a
global leader in providing essential electronic workflow
solutions to business and professional customers.  With
operational headquarters in Stamford, Conn., Thomson
provides value-added information, software tools and
applications to professionals in the fields of law, tax,
accounting, financial services, scientific research and
healthcare.  The Corporation's common shares are listed on
the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX:
TOC). 

    Thomson Scientific is a business of The Thomson
Corporation.  Its information solutions assist
professionals at every stage of research and
development-from discovery to analysis to product
development and distribution. Thomson Scientific
information solutions can be found at
http://scientific.thomson.com.


    For more information, please contact:

     Nikki Haffey 
     Thomson Scientific
     Phone: [phone].
     Email: [e-mail]