Case Studies | SPi Global

Since 2000, SPi Global has supplied SGML structuring and composition services, for journals, to Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Initially, the journals we supported were produced by LWW in-house, in a desktop environment, due to the demanding layout and layout flexibility required. SPi Global effectively assisted LWW in moving these titles to an outsourced composition model, which reduced LWW's costs, while preserving the ability to deliver the complex page layout required.

To support Marcel Dekker's aggressive and evolving electronic publishing strategy, SPi Global encodes author manuscripts as XML documents against a custom Dekker XML DTD or the DOCBOOK DTD. We also copyedit, typeset, and deliver the content to Dekker for both web and print media needs, including XML-encoded text, graphic files for displayed equations and chemical structures, web-ready files for figures, and PDF files for both web and print.

SPi Global initiated its relationship with the New York office of Nature Publishing, Specialist Journals Division, in late 1998. From 1998 to 2002, SPi Global supplied "front-end" services for a number of Nature Publishing journals. These services included copyediting, composition and a full suite of electronic deliverables, including full text SGML and PDF files. A typical website for Nature Publishing's on-line product can be accessed at www.nature.com/cgt/.

SPi Global's relationship with Oxford University Press (OUP) dates back to 1988. SPi Global has successfully worked with the publisher in Oxford, UK, through the various changes in technical and market needs. SPi Global, to date, is the largest supplier of services for OUP's Academic, Professional, Law, and Trade & Reference Books. SPi Global was the first offshore company that OUP considered for copyediting and project management services.

In 2003, SPi Global provided Taylor and Francis, a leading international academic publisher, legacy conversion services for nearly 140,000 pages. Taylor and Francis was test marketing online journal back files in four disciplines. From printed back issues, the company supplied article header files coded as SGML and fully searchable PDF files. Production of the content for this pilot project was completed in two months, and SPi Global is now adding more value to the content, based on end-user feedback to the market test.