Academic publishers and the scholarly book and journals community partner with Westchester Publishing Services for every step of their pre-press process.
From author manuscript to final print and digital formats, they have relied on Westchester for 50 years for quality editorial and production services, and excellence delivered.
Our Academic publishing services include:
Editorial and project management
- Project management
- Copyediting, proofreading and indexing
- Domain-area copyediting expertise
- Author and publisher liaison
- Castoff and sample pages
- Schedule and budget preparation and maintenance
- No-cost Client Portal for tracking projects and author engagement
Composition and typesetting services
- Interior design and layout
- Pre-edit Microsoft® Word styling
- Westchester standardised tagging system
- Adobe® InDesign®, PTC Abortext® (3B2)
- LaTex, maths and figures
- 4-colour image-handling
- Relabelling, rendering, colour and tonal adjustment
Journals production and management
- Journals management for disciplines including science, medicine and humanities
- Database tracking from receipt to final pages / upload
- Management of ad placement
- Illustration programme management
- Freelance resource selection and management
Digital conversions
- eBooks, including complex ePub3 files with media, page numbers, and more
- Customised ePubs, PDFs and XML files for multiple distribution platforms, including Atypon, HighWire, JSTOR, Project MUSE, and Silverchair
- XML services, including pre-edit tagging to streamline copyediting and book production