Working with us
At Burleigh Dodds we want our editors to find the experience of working with us as rewarding as possible. With this in mind we provide extensive support throughout the editing 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 DEVELOPMENT
We believe in getting to know our customers and the issues that matter most to them. We will use that understanding in partnership with our own expereience, innovation, research and networks of expertise to develop content in partnership with you. By developing contents together, we will build an even stronger title. This ensures there will be a substantial contribution to the subject.
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 DELIVERY
Our editors tell us they do not want to be burdened with managing these projects. This means we will be responsible for inviting, contracting and liaising with all the chapter authors to ensure they deliver their chapters on time. As an editor, you can focus on what matters most: reviewing the technical quality of draft chapters. We can help with peer review process and in addition, we will take responsibility for such issues as checking and redrafting chapters for style (e.g. where a chapter author’s first language is not English).
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
We're always on hand to answer any questions you may have, however please also browse our suite of resources which we have compiled to help make your experience as an editor as positive as it can be.
How we work with editors (guide for potential editors)
Editor guide (for contracted editors)