Editorial

With our deep expertise in editorial services, SPi Global’s editors, writers, and content specialists are ready to put the finishing touches on information products, getting them ready for consumers by improving English usage, copyediting for style, or indexing articles to improve search on the internet. In addition, our editorial teams can help publishers and content providers launch information products faster and more effectively by maximizing the value of their content. Our highly skilled and trained in-house editors are complemented by a pool of qualified onshore freelance editors.

Our Editorial Solutions include:

Language Polishing
As businesses expand global operations, many now rely on authors who are non-native English speakers to write vital documents,white papers, and scholarly articles. SPi Global provides English-language improvement services for papers written by authors whose first language is not English. Based in the Philippines and India, our language editors, armed with decades of experience copyediting scholarly and STM content, “polish” the manuscript, correct grammar, remove redundancies, fix problem sentences,and fine-tune the prose. We also offer this service directly to the authors through our site (www.prof-editing.com), enabling them to leverage on our efficient, web-based process. This means publishers can focus on getting articles or papers that are ready to go.

Pre-editing
We also provide pre-editing services for clients who copyedit their content in-house. We format raw manuscripts by removing obvious formatting errors and other inconsistencies and making them ready for copyediting. We use sets of customized rules to format references, cross-reference citations, equations, tables, and figures; mark items not cited in the text; and then send queries to the copyeditors on concerns that need clarification. This saves time for the publishers’ copyeditors, enabling them to focus on style or other more specific, value-added edits.

Copyediting
Our experienced copyeditors have deep knowledge of all standard industry styles and are trained to perform three levels of editing, depending on the needs of your information product or journal. Moreover, SPi Global has been providing copyediting services since 1997 for many of the world’s leading publishers, copyediting more than 1 million pages in 2010 alone. We copyedit highly cited journals as listed in the ISI list of Top 500. We are familiar with various copyediting style manuals such as AMA, APA,CMS, CSE, and ACS. We can also manage the onshore freelance copyeditors used by the publisher and provide a single seamless workflow to the client.

Proofreading
As a final step, our editors will review information products, from online publications to printed magazines, before they are distributed to customers. Using the same guidelines as we use for copyediting manuscripts, we carefully proof next-to-final copy, ensuring that the content is accurate and that it follows earlier drafts.

Indexing
SPi Global’s indexing services include keyword indexing, author and name indexing, product indexing, subject/analytical indexing,and bibliographic indexing. We index 650,000+ pages every year. Our skilled indexers are subject matter experts in key fields and disciplines, and they create comprehensive style sheets that then allow for the development of detailed keyword, author, and subject indexes—including first, second, and third tier entries—with the consistency, precision, and meticulousness that truly exemplify superior service.