Academic, scholarly book, journal and trade publishers rely on Westchester Publishing Services UK and River Editorial for every step of their pre-press process.
From author manuscripts to final print and digital formats, organisations have relied on Westchester for more than 50 years for quality editorial and production services, with excellence delivered.
Editorial and project management.
- Full-service project management
- Copyediting, proofreading and indexing
- Copyediting in British or American English
- 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.
- 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
- Illustration programme management
- Freelance resource selection and management
Digital production.
- eBooks, including complex ePub3 files with media, page numbers, and more
- Customised ePubs, PDFs and XML files for multiple distribution platforms, including Ingram/CoreSource, Atypon, HighWire, JSTOR, Project MUSE, and Silverchair
- Accessible ePubs including alt-text review, editing and writing
- XML services, including pre-edit tagging to streamline copyediting and book production
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