Working with us
At Burleigh Dodds we want our authors to find the experience of working with us as rewarding as possible. With this in mind we provide extensive support throughout the writing and peer review process by taking on the administrative burden on your behalf. Interested in our process? Find out how we manage a book from start to finish!
CONTENT PRODUCTION
Delivering knowledge for the global scientific community is what drives the content production process at Burleigh Dodds. In addition to redrafting chapters for style, we arrange to have them produced to the high standard of quality you and our readers expect. Research tells us that the demand for electronic publications continues to grow. That is why we will publish titles in both print and electronic format to match what customers find easiest to access and easiest to use.
CONTENT DISCOVERABILITY
We are committed to connecting content with the widest possible readership to maximise its impact. We will ensure each publication is cited as widely as possible, use SEO to maximise online discoverability and deposit metadata with relevent repositories. We will build and establish communities of potential users and purchasers for each title and will use social media to grow the audience further. We will ensure broad review coverage and have an international network of agents and representatives to reach worldwide markets.
PEER REVIEW PROCESS
All our books are edited by leading experts in their fields. They are primarily responsible for peer review of first draft chapters in the books they are editing. The peer review process for book chapters is usually managed via the ScholarOne platform which is widely used to manage review and other activities for major academic journals. Where an editor is not able to review a chapter (e.g. because it is does not fall within the editor’s area of expertise), with the editor’s permission we find and approach a recognised subject expert in that topic to review the chapter. Reviews are passed on to chapter authors (typically via ScholarOne) who then produce revised drafts for approval. To ensure transparency the contribution of subject expert reviewers is typically acknowledged in the preliminary pages of the published book. Review of published titles suggest our peer review process is successful in producing high-quality, authoritative and widely-respected content for both an academic and practitioner audience.
Resources
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