Editorial Support for Publishers
Pubrica provides outsourced editorial, production, accessibility and assessment support for journals, book publishers and awarding bodies that cannot staff this work in-house. Our editorial and production teams work within your own systems and under your own policies. Services include peer review administration, copy editing and production, specialist checks that your reviewers cannot carry out, accessibility conformance reports for your buyers, and exam and assessment work. Every editorial decision remains with your editors.
- Work within your own systems and policies: your submission platform, style guide, templates and correspondence
- Editorial decisions remain with your editors: we do not offer arrangements that take editorial decisions away from the journal
- Specialist checks that general reviewers cannot make: statistical review, search strategy peer review, psychometrics, and bias and fairness review
- Accessibility evidenced with a report, because conformance reports are now requested in procurement and unevidenced claims create risk
- Priced per article, per item or on retainer, so that both small society journals and national awarding bodies can buy at a suitable scale
Editorial administrationFully outsourced
Production and metadataFully outsourced
Specialist review and psychometricsFully outsourced
Integrity and fairness caseworkDrafted by us, decided by you
Editorial and awarding decisionsNot outsourced
Received → assessed → produced → accessible → defensible
- Work done inside your platform, under your policies
- Decisions stay with your editors and your panels
- COPE flowcharts followed on every integrity case
- Conformance evidenced with a report
- Priced per article, per item or on retainer
Deliverables
Three Service Areas for Publishers and Awarding Bodies
We support journals in maintaining the integrity of their published record, awarding bodies in defending their results, and both in providing accessible content.
For journals and publishersAdministrative work is often the first task volunteer editors lack time for, and it requires the least editorial judgement, which makes it well suited to outsourcing.
For anything published digitallyAutomated tools can find missing alt attributes, but they cannot assess whether the alt text is meaningful. For scientific content, this assessment is most of the work.
For awarding bodies and EdTechA cutscore set by discussion rather than a documented method is the first decision to be challenged and the most difficult to defend.
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Compliance and Standards
Publishing, Assessment and Accessibility Standards
We work to publishing standards, measurement standards and the accessibility requirements that apply to both.
COPE (for integrity cases)
The COPE flowcharts determine how each case is handled. The journal reaches its own conclusion, and the case is worked through a defined process.
ICMJE Recommendations (authorship and disclosure)
Authorship criteria, declarations, and the requirement that writing support is acknowledged rather than credited.
Accessibility conformance (for digital content)
Evidenced with a report rather than asserted, as institutional buyers now require conformance evidence in procurement.
Quality management (cert. H3CR9TCU20251212INDQM10N)
Our certified system for running, recording and releasing project work.
Our Process
Editorial Support Process
We work within your systems and under your policies, and your editors and panels make all decisions.
Editorial Workflow and Queue Assessment
We identify where support is needed, which is usually first-decision time, a production backlog or a specialist check that no board member can carry out.
Written Agreement on Scope and Responsibilities
We agree in writing what we do, what returns to your editors or panel, and which decisions always remain with them.
Work in your platform
We work in your submission system and follow your style guide, templates and editorial voice.
Reporting against volume
We report turnaround, queue length and exceptions, so that you can scale or end the arrangement on the basis of evidence.
FAQs
Editorial Support for Publishers FAQs
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Yes. Editorial and awarding decisions remain with your people, and this boundary is written into the agreement before work begins.
We do not offer arrangements that transfer editorial control of a journal. A society seeking that arrangement should approach a publisher.
Yes. It is often particularly suitable, because a small organisation frequently needs a single specialist check that it cannot staff rather than a full editorial office.
Per-article and per-item pricing is designed for this situation.
An audit is required first, followed by the report. A VPAT completed without testing is a signed statement that has not been verified, and the signature creates the legal exposure.
Yes, and review-only work is often better value. The subject knowledge is usually already within your organisation, and our reviewers add item-writing expertise.
Related Services
Other Pubrica Service Groups
Services for organisations that also submit work to journals or regulators.
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Submitting to regulatorsRegulatory documents prepared for assessment.3DATA & AIone service area
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For most society journals and small awarding bodies, the main need is one specialist check that they cannot staff, and that is usually where outsourcing offers the most value.