Self-publishing services for book authors

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1 Self-publishing services for book authors

2 Contents What is Sciendo? Why Sciendo? Your options How we offer our services? Service list Service descriptions

3 What is Sciendo? Sciendo is a leading provider of publishing services and solutions to academic and professional organizations as well as individual authors. The company is a part of the De Gruyter Group, a renowned academic publisher with a company history of over 260 years. Why Sciendo? Sciendo can meet all publishing needs for authors of academic and professional books in the English language. We publish monographs, textbooks, edited volumes, and other book types. Our customers have the choice between offering the Open Access for the electronic version of their books, or for the book to be distributed via traditional commercial methods. Sciendo is not just another service or technology vendor. As a part of the De Gruyter Group, Sciendo can therefore offer you world-class publishing solutions and services tried and tested on our own books and proceedings. De Gruyter publishes more than 1,300 books and proceedings a year, and has a backlist of about 100,000 published titles. Your options As a book author, you have two options to publish your book with Sciendo. If you have funds from your affiliate institution or another sponsor for the book publication, please use the Full publishing services option. If not, you can enjoy the Sciendo Self-publishing option outlined here. The rest of this brochure deals with that option. 2

4 How we offer our services? In our Self-publishing option, the author can make most of the decisions concerning the book (e.g. choose the Open Access or paid access model, select the distribution channels, set the price), and can design the book (interior and cover), and - after the book publication - profit from the book sales. Sciendo has created a dashboard where authors can register and make all those decisions. You do not pay for our basic publishing services, listed below as Basic services. However, you must deliver a properly formatted, publishable book file. If you want us to format your book or to provide other production, editorial or marketing services, we will be pleased to do so for a fee. Sciendo will keep 30% of the net revenues from your book sales

5 Service list For Self-published books, Sciendo offers the following Basic services. For some book categories, these services may be limited due to the policies of third parties, e.g. A&I services. BASIC SERVICES TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS WEBSITE Book webpage Hosting and distribution platform on which the book will be accessible SERVICES PRODUCTION ELECTRONIC COPY Generation of DOI numbers for the book and book chapters (if any) and register them in the Crossref database Creating metadata in XML format (data necessary to put the book online and setup print on demand in the system) ISBN registration. Sciendo provides an ISBN number for the book and register it in an ISBN agency PRINTING Print-on-demand and delivery to a book buyer MARKETING INDEXING Arranging for indexing by A&I services such as: Clarivate Analytics, Scopus, Medline or Compendex (it applies to services that cover books) Indexing by Google and other search engines FULL-TEXT DISTRIBUTION Distribution to libraries through an online platform Arranging for coverage by full-text repositories Arranging for coverage by discovery services Setting terms for document (book chapter) delivery companies, and serving these companies Long term preservation services SALES PRINTED BOOKS Print-on-demand and delivery to book buyer Creating files necessary for print-on-demand 4

6 EBOOKS Managing sales (the granting of access) through libraries, content aggregators and other institutional sales channels CONSULTING Sciendo style guide Sciendo shall provide for the book these Additional services at the discretion of the author and in consideration of the charges including Value Added Tax (VAT). The Additional services are divided into pre- and post-publication and selected during registration or after registration by ed order. The relevant fees are disclosed to registered authors. PRE-PUBLICATION SERVICES PRODUCTION ELECTRONIC COPY ADDITIONAL SERVICES Adding DOIs and ISBNs to book files provided by the author epub version of the book (Sciendo creates an epub version of your book for online distribution) Typesetting and proofreading in contact with the book author or with the book editor for edited volumes (Sciendo checks and review your book to ensure that the content reads correctly) Adapting standard layout and cover design (Sciendo adopts your book layout to meet all publishing requirements) Providing new layout and cover design (Sciendo designs and provides the new cover and the layout of your book) PRINTING One print run (any number of copies) delivered to the book author (available only if Sciendo created a PDF for print-on-demand) EDITORIAL Copyediting & language editing - level 1 (light edit) Copyediting & language editing - level 2 (medium edit) Copyediting & language editing - level 3 (heavy edit) 5 5

7 POST-PUBLICATION SERVICES MARKETING INDEXING Arranging for indexing by A&I services such as Scopus, PubMed or Compendex (to the extent they cover books) MARKETING EXTRA PACKAGE Mailing to cited authors Social Media posts Bookmark design and print Press release for the book (Book Announcement) Interview with book author Google AdWords campaign 6

8 Service descriptions Here are the key services offered and the benefits they bring. HOSTING PLATFORM All books published by Sciendo are uploaded to the platform provided by PubFactory and have their own webpages at They can be easily read, searched and purchased online. PubFactory technology automatically creates links to all linkable references in the book chapters. This enhances the reading experience, as the reader can jump to a cited book or journal article. PRODUCTION SERVICES In our Self-publishing model, we expect to receive ready-made publishable files, both for the book content and the book cover. For authors who cannot provide a proper.pdf file, Sciendo offers ebook formatting and additional pre-publication services, e.g. we can render the ebook in formats used by smartphones and tablets. Free of any charge, Sciendo provides an ISBN number for the book and DOI numbers for the book and its chapters (if any). EDITORIAL SERVICES If you want the book to be written in perfect English, you should use our copyediting and language editing services, which are offered for an extra fee per page. There are three levels of this service, ranging from the light edit, through medium edit to heavy edit. The heavy edit is done by native English specialists in the broad subject field of the book. Please contact us at the address given below for more details

9 PRINTING Each book published by Sciendo can be purchased as a printed copy. To this end, Sciendo prepares files necessary for print-on-demand, prints the book to order and delivers to the book buyer. For a fee, each author may order as many printed copies of the book (in hardback or paperback, on different types of paper) as desired. ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING (A&I) Just having a book published is not enough. The book should be visible and findable in specialized services. These services index the information about the book or host its abstract (summary). Sciendo cooperates with the majority of A&I services, e.g.: Clarivate Analytics, Scopus, PubMed, Medline, citation indexes or discovery services, where we send book metadata and abstracts. Our technology allows automatic transfer of such data to A&I services. MARKETING EXTRA PACKAGE Sciendo has created a special set of marketing services, which help to promote the book among readers and other authors. Here are two of the six services that compose this package. Sciendo informs all living and reachable authors who have been cited in the book about this citation. This makes the book noted, read and cited. Also, Sciendo writes and distributes the press release about the book, and also, optionally, an interview with the author. SALES AND DISTRIBUTION Every book published by Sciendo can be purchased at as a printed copy, both paperback and hardback. Also, ebooks are sold online, unless the party of the contract with Sciendo (the author or his/her institution) has decided to offer it in the Open Access. Sciendo keeps only 30% of net revenues. Such sales are possible through and through many retailers that Sciendo works with like Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Ingram. Sciendo distributes the Open Access books to many full-text repositories and directories. 8

10 If you need personal support or to discuss the terms, feel free to contact our Books Sales & Publishing Specialist Dr Jakub Gąsior

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