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Acceptance is not publication. Between the two sits copy-editing, typesetting, proofing, metadata, identifiers and archiving - the work that decides whether an article is found, read and cited, or quietly ignored. We do that work, for venues on our platform and for journals that only need this part.
Why this is a service and not an afterthought
A PDF assembled in a hurry still opens. What it does not do is carry a resolvable identifier, deposit itself to Crossref, declare its licence, name its funders, or tell an aggregator what it is. Those are the things that decide whether the work is discoverable in five years, and they are all decided during production.
The production pass
Grammar, consistency, terminology and reference formatting. For authors writing in English as a second language, a pass that fixes the language without rewriting the argument — the science stays the author's. We correct language; we do not write, rewrite or ghostwrite research. We do not offer, and will not accept, work that amounts to authoring someone's paper for them.
Headings, figures, tables and equations set to one house template so a volume looks like a volume, with figure quality checked at print resolution rather than at whatever the author pasted in.
Style applied consistently, DOIs matched where they exist, and broken or missing references sent back to the author while there is still time to fix them.
Title, abstract, keywords, authors with ORCIDs and affiliations, funding and funders, data availability, licence, language, received / revised / accepted dates, pages and article number - captured as structured fields on the record itself.
A proof goes to the corresponding author with a stated window, corrections are collected in one place, and publication does not happen until it is approved. Approval is recorded against the paper.
The DOI is registered and the metadata deposited to Crossref — with each reference’s own DOI where we have it, which is what makes cited-by work in both directions. The article page goes live in all three formats, with citation exports in six styles plus BibTeX and RIS, and the volume is assembled.
After publication
Publication is not the end of the record's life. Things are found to be wrong, and how that is handled is what separates a publisher from a file host.
Straight answer on formats
Every paper is published as a full-text HTML page, the PDF of record, and JATS 1.3 XML — the format PubMed Central requires and aggregators harvest. Nothing here is planned; all three ship on every article today.
Camera-ready files are accepted as Word or PDF. A Word file produces full text in all three; a PDF-only camera-ready still produces a complete metadata record in HTML and XML, which is what an indexer takes — the PDF simply remains the full text. Nothing is required of the author beyond the file they already send.
You do not have to move your journal
If your editorial process works and only the production end is the bottleneck, we will take accepted manuscripts and hand back publication-ready files and a complete metadata record. Quoted per article or per volume, depending on the shape of the work.
A proceedings volume or a journal issue taken from accepted manuscripts to a finished, consistently typeset set of articles with DOIs registered.
Overflow capacity when an issue is late, or an occasional article that needs more work than your team has time for.
Older volumes brought up to current metadata standards and given DOIs, so an archive that predates your identifiers becomes citable.
An existing archive audited against Crossref and indexer expectations, with the gaps listed and then filled.
"Accepted, camera-ready, paid, published. The same record moves through every step, so what an author sees, what a chair decides, and what a reader cites never drift apart."
The AMS principleTell us how many articles, what state they are in, and when you need them. Production for venues on the platform is part of your plan; standalone work is quoted in advance and invoiced directly — it is not sold through the card checkout.