For Journals, Publishers & Societies
Pubrica provides journals, publishers and societies with editorial office operations, integrity case handling, statistical and search-strategy review, copy editing and production QA, accessibility audit and remediation, and indexing support. These obligations apply equally to a society journal run by part-time editors and to one with a professional editorial office. We work inside your own submission system as additional capacity, and the journal remains under your control.
- Inside your own system — we work in your submission platform under your editorial policies, and the journal stays yours
- Editorial operations at volume: peer review management, reviewer identification, author correspondence and reviewer follow-up
- Accessibility audit and remediation, including the VPAT or accessibility conformance report that institutional buyers now ask for
- Specialist checks general reviewers cannot make: statistical review, PRESS peer review of search strategies, reference validation
- Integrity cases handled to COPE flowcharts, which arrive without warning and require experienced handling
Editorial office operationsIncluded
Copy editing and production QAIncluded
Accessibility audit and remediationIncluded
Statistical and search peer reviewIncluded
Making editorial decisionsRemains with your editors
Submission → reviewed → decided → produced → accessible
- Inside your own system
- Under your editorial policies
- Decisions stay with your editors
- COPE flowcharts on integrity cases
- Conformance evidenced, not claimed
Our Services
Editorial, Integrity, Review and Accessibility Services
We provide editorial capacity and specialist checks, both of which are difficult for smaller journals to staff.
Editorial control stays with youWe work in your system under your policies. We do not offer arrangements in which the journal stops being yours.
Experienced case handlingIntegrity cases are procedurally demanding and rare enough that small offices seldom build the experience. Choosing the wrong notice type is itself an error that must be corrected.
Search strategy reviewSearch strategies are rarely peer reviewed in systematic review submissions, and a single precedence error can remove eligible studies without notice.
Procurement requirementsLibrary and institutional purchasers increasingly require a conformance report. A claim of compliance without one is not evidence.
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Compliance and Standards
Publishing Ethics and Accessibility Standards
We apply publishing ethics standards and the accessibility requirements that now apply to digital content.
COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics)
What may be claimed about a paper, and how journals handle authorship, disclosure and correction when something is wrong.
ICMJE Recommendations (authorship and disclosure)
Four authorship criteria, the declarations journals require, and the rule that editing and writing support is acknowledged rather than credited as authorship.
Accessibility conformance (and EN 301 549)
The success criteria content is audited against, the US federal procurement standard, and the European harmonised standard that underpins the accessibility requirements now applying to digital products.
Quality management (cert. H3CR9TCU20251212INDQM10N)
Our certified quality system governs how work is run, recorded and released.
How It Works
How a Publisher Engagement Works
We work inside your system and under your policies, and your editors make the decisions.
Your system and policies
We obtain access to your submission platform, read your editorial policies, and agree the boundary between our work and your editors’ decisions.
Triage and routing
Submissions are triaged, specialist checks are routed where they add value, and other submissions proceed without waiting for an editor.
Editorial and production work
Editorial operations, copy editing, specialist review or remediation, carried out to your standards and style.
Reporting
We report time to decision, queue position and conformance status in a format your board can review.
FAQs
Questions from Journals, Publishers and Societies
If your question is not answered here, ask an expert — no quote is required.
No. We work in your system under your policies, and editorial decisions stay with your editors. We handle process, correspondence and specialist checks.
We do not offer arrangements that remove editorial decisions from your editors.
Yes, often more so than for a large journal. Retained capacity gives you access to roles a small journal cannot fund on its own, such as an integrity specialist, a statistical reviewer and accessibility expertise.
Retained arrangements can be small. Without them, most societies cannot do this work at all.
Yes. DOAJ, Scopus and Web of Science applications are documentation exercises with specific, checkable criteria, and most rejections are for things that could have been fixed first.
We assess readiness before you apply, because a rejection carries a waiting period.
At minimum, content that meets WCAG 2.2 at the level your market expects, and evidence of it. Institutional purchasers increasingly ask for a VPAT or accessibility conformance report.
A claim of compliance is not a conformance report, and procurement teams treat them differently.
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