From: Pippa Smart <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 09:06:30 +0000

To the best of my knowledge all the major publishers do offer
copyediting - however it is rolled up with the typesetting service:
i.e. articles are sent to the typesetting company who will edit the
articles, flag queries, etc., then set up the pages and send them to
the authors for proofreading and responding to queries. If there are
substantial problems (e.g. missing artwork and no response from the
author) the publisher may be contacted to make a decision about the
article, otherwise the typesetter is responsible for this part of the
work. This level of copyediting doesn't usually go into depth but
ensures that the articles are complete, with no spelling mistakes,
correct citations, etc.

Also, some society/association journals who publish with the major
publishers do their own copyediting before it goes to the production
stages because they want to spend more time getting the articles
right. I recently had experience with one where my article was
extensively copyedited after acceptance (a lot of discussion with the
copyeditor about the clarity of certain sections, etc.) before it went
to the "official" publisher copyeditor/typesetter.

Pippa

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On 3 December 2012 22:12, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2012 18:14:55 -0600
>
>> From: Peter Binfield <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:54:32 -0800
>>
>> Thanks Sandy
>>
>> Copyediting is not provided (as is the case with many journals, PLoS ONE
>> included).
>
> I wonder how many is "many"?  I don't believe there is ANY journal
> published by a university press that is not copyedited. I would be
> very surprised if at least the major commercial publishers do not
> provide copyediting for all of their journals. (Please verify if you
> represent a commercial journal publisher.) I would also be surprised
> if society publishers do not provide copyediting. I would, however,
> not be very surprised if many OA journals not run by regular
> publishers but operating out of universities on shoestring budgets are
> not copyedited--or at least are not copyedited by professional staff
> but rather by student interns. And I do not know whether OA publishers
> like Hindawi offer copyediting services.
>
>> The copyright statement is perhaps badly worded. It is simply intended to
>> indicate that if an author uses copyrighted material for which they would
>> normally need to seek permission, then they should have received permission
>> from the copyright owners (that is the " been made available" part) to make
>> that material available within a paper which has a CC BY 3.0 license. i.e.
>> it doesn't mean that the re-used material must have been originally
>> published under that license.
>
> I wonder if this condition on permission will make it difficult for
> authors to obtain permission from TA publishers?  Perhaps some
> representatives of major commercial STM publishers could offer their
> views on this topic.
>
> Sandy Thatcher