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<topic id="journal/topic/000033" locale="en_US" title="Merge Users" toc="journal/toc/000002" key="journal.managementPages.mergeUsers">
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		<![CDATA[<p>The Merge Users feature, available from Journal Management under the Users heading, allows the Journal Manager to merge two user accounts into a single account, transferring edit assignments, submissions, and numerous other records from one account to the other and effectively deleting the first.</p>
		<p>The following items are transferred:
			<ul>
				<li>Article authorship</li>
				<li>Public comments on articles</li>
				<li>Article notes</li>
				<li>Editor assignments and decisions</li>
				<li>Review assignments</li>
				<li>editor assignments</li>
				<li>Proofreader assignments</li>
				<li>Article email and event log entries</li>
				<li>Reviewer access keys</li>
			</ul>
		The following items are <strong>not</strong> transferred:
			<ul>
				<li>Sessions</li>
				<li>Subscriptions</li>
				<li>Notification status (i.e. whether the user has signed up to receive notifications about journal news)</li>
				<li>Editorial team memberships</li>
				<li>Section Editor status on sections</li>
				<li>Roles</li>
				<li>User profile information (e.g. first name, last name, etc.)</li>
			</ul>
		</p>
		<p>This feature should be used with caution, as it is not reversible and involves the transfer of records from one user to another.</p>]]>
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