Professional Editorial Services

Apex provides a suite of value-added editorial services in both the UK and US English lexicons:

Proofreading
Apex utilizes an established group of well-trained proofreaders.

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Copyediting
Our highly-trained, professional copy editors are rigorously tested and continually monitored to ensure high quality. In addition, we systematically define the level of edit for each client and each project.

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Cross-referencing and semantic tagging
Apex offers semantic tagging and cross-referencing such as you may find in encyclopedias. Our TrueXML Workflow enables us to do this semantic tagging as a part of the initial input to the editorial and composition process, which reduces costs, allows for QA earlier in the workflow, and enables electronic publication in advance print.

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Indexing and legal tables creation
In the editorial and composition side of our business, we provide expert back-of-the-book indexing using experienced, professional indexers. We also offer an innovative indexing technology called Apex Integrated Indexing that integrates the back-of-the-book index with the XML file of the work being indexed. This enables the generation of page references to numerous editions or formats and directly to the referenced content for electronic publications such as e-books or online versions.

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XML editing and updating subscription products
Apex is one of the world's leading providers of XML to publishers; a significant amount of this work involves updating subscription products.

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Abstract authoring and content capture
Simplify your content supply processes:

• Maximize the value of your data by ensuring that it is the most current information available anywhere
• Reduce the time it takes to obtain and deliver rich content
• Simplify production with a single data format inflow at the front-end of your workflow

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US-Based Project Management
For almost 20 years, our US-based project managers have provided full service project management for trade books, professional books (legal, medical, scientific, and technical), scholarly monographs, reference books, and journals. Our experience also includes the management of large, multi-author, contributed volumes. Each project manager handles any or all of the scheduling, design, copyediting, composition, proofreading, indexing, artwork, author liaison, and printer/electronic publishing partner liaison.

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Easy-to-use Editing System

Apex’s MS Word®-based editing system offers two levels of templates:

• Authoring templates with customized toolbars and simplified styles rather than tagging
• Editing templates with full editorial functionality such as the ability to tag semantic elements.

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Apex’s editing system

• Is easy to use by freelancers and in-house editing staff
• Generates fully tagged, production-ready XML
• Has been thoroughly vetted through the creation of hundreds of diverse titles.
• Easily transforms XML Word files generated from the templated Word files to different XML models, in order to optimize the editorial, production and electronic publishing processes.
• Adjusts to the appropriate level of complexity, granularity, structure and tagging models.