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The Ultimate Guide to Professional Book Editing Services

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Perhaps so-called "authors" who depend mainly on ghostwriters should be called "conceptualists", and then the ghostwriting companies or individual ghostwriters could be acknowledged for what they add to the mix. I wish we could take the "ghost" out of ghostwriting and give real credit to all parties involved.

The distinctions between authors, co-authors, and editors are never completely clear. Many scientific journals now acknowledge that science proceeds with many kinds of contribution, and encourage all those contributions to be reported clearly in a footnote to the author list.

Authorship has become a broader concept.

I see a book title coming:

"Authorship: Adventures on the High Seas of Knowledge and Copyright"

I expect the idea will be pirated shortly :-)

updated by @chief-admin: 27/06/24 09:10:43PM

Springer Nature editing services - a good comparison point?

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Many publishers recommend editing and other language services, either in house or outside the publishing company. The Springer Nature company currently recommends "English language editing" to reach "Nature Research" standards, and "scientific editing" that examines all aspects of a text.

The prices (in USD) are very different:

For English-language editing, the price is "based on wordcount and starts as low as $87".

For scientific editing, the price is "per paper and word count", and starts at only $1500"

The latter pricing is presumably the base rate for a short or standard-length paper, with longer papers being charged more based on the word count above a threshold).

So... the most economical approach here would be to have your scientific content checked by colleagues in a mutual exchange of volunteer help, and then have the language improved by further editing.

Comments on this post are welcome! (Research Co-op, Admin)

Public Knowledge Project (PKP) - seeking volunteer translators (many languages)

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The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is a multi-university initiative to develop (free) open source software and improve the quality and reach of scholarly publishing.

In addition to developing open source software and publishing services, PKP maintains extensive documentation for its users... including user guides for:

• Open Journal Systems (OJS)
• Open Monograph Press (OMP)
• Open Preprint Systems (OPS)

...as well as guides for branding journals; starting student journals; improving accessibility, discoverability, and indexing; and much more.

PKP’s software has already been translated into 45+ different languages. PKP is seeking volunteer translators for the ongoing work of translating the software documentation.

See original request details here:

https://pkp.sfu.ca/2021/09/08/seeking-volunteers-to-translate-public-knowledge-project-documentation/

Comment by Research Cooperative: Translators can volunteer in their own interest, as these open source systems for publishing are helping to create opportunities for translators to get paid work.

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Hi Leola,

Thanks for posting. I hope you get some enquiries!

Best regards, Peter (Admin., Kyoto)

Translation needed for welcome note, from English to multiple languages

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Sxie sxie!

Merci beaucoup :-)

Biomed News - Machine learning tool to identify papers of interest in PubMed - looking for topic experts

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Thanks. Jamroom was originally set up to help musicians distribute their music; it still does this, so is still strong on offering ways to distribute sound and video files. As a Jamroom user (developing the Research Cooperative network), I've contributed feedback for improvements in how it handles text, and the JR team have made (and continue to make) improvements.

However, it is not a purpose-built text publishing platform like those developed for open access journals. But.. pdf documents, blogs and so on can all be uploaded, tagged, indexed and so on. JR has a core system module and then many optional add on modules that work with it. If I had a team of developers, I could then modify the css templates to jazz up our network - but I don't. So my policy has been to customize as little as possible, so that updates and improvements made by JR can simply be accepted and used without any further work on my side (I am a full-time researcher with no training in computer coding).

If you can tell me what might be useful for you, then I can consider if it is easy enough for me to implement with the JR modules that I am currently using.

For example, I can give you the ability to make a separate profile for your project, and test that as a vehicle for the project.

Peter

Biomed News - Machine learning tool to identify papers of interest in PubMed - looking for topic experts

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RE: Biomed News

Hi Gavin,

Thanks for joining.

Sorry for the deleted URL - that's signup security feature that I generally have on. It's possible that the Research Cooperative network, host and server system (all at Jamroom) could be useful for you, perhaps initially as a test. Please discuss with me if this is of interest. The features that you see in the Research Cooperative employ just a limited part of the capacity of Jamroom, which is highly flexible and extensible but needs technically skilled developers to exploit fully.

Best regards, Peter (Admin., Kyoto)

Researchers can offer mutual help to other researchers

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Editing help does not necessarily have to be expensive. Researchers can help each other, by offering help in areas of their own expertise.

If you are a researcher, please consider using this forum to offer volunteer help, and if you want, make a specific request for help with your own work in the forum for editing requests.

The aim is to find compatible working partners with shared interests and trust. This requires that you make your own efforts to communicate with other members of the network.

Thank you, Peter (Admin, Kyoto)

Thanks for that! I'm adding tags here to help others find this.

Peter (Admin.)

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@brianacoles

On behalf of the network, thanks for the offer!

Peter (Admin)