What We Do
We have been involved in prepress production, copy editing, language editing and project management of scientific documents for more than 30 years. Many changes have taken place in that time. We have been working directly with authors since 1994 and have many repeat clients, some going back to the early days.
Our objective is to combine today’s technology with our traditional publishing skills to produce top quality documents. Today, your work needs to be prepared to a different standard than in the past. Adherence to Instructions to Authors is essential and can involve quite a lot of preparation. The language in your content needs to be of high quality and the text should be ready for publication when submitted. This is what we do.
Send us your text in any format and we will style the document according to the instructions to authors, make the use of hyphens, punctuation, spellings, technical terms, acronyms/abbreviations and so on consistent, and improve the language where necessary to ensure that your text is ready to go.
Send your text by email to lorna@authorserv.com for a full quote and expected delivery date.
Journal Articles
Send your article and the name of the journal you have chosen to lorna@authorserv.com or via a file-sharing service (e.g. www.wetransfer.com) for a quote. We will send you the price and schedule so that you can decide if this suits you (example: a complete article of 5000 words costs €150). An invoice will be sent on completion with details of how to pay by electronic transfer; payment can also be made by credit card using the Pay Now button or directly from your PayPal account.
Send your text by email to lorna@authorserv.com for a full quote and expected delivery date.
Books
For a chapter in an edited book: send your chapter and any associated instructions to lorna@authorserv.com or via a file-sharing service (e.g. www.wetransfer.com) for a quote.
For a monograph: send the entire book or a sample chapter and the total word count of the book and any instructions given to you by the publisher.
We will send you the price and schedule so that you can decide if this suits you. An invoice will be sent on completion with details of how to pay by electronic transfer; payment can also be made by credit card using the Pay Now button or directly from your PayPal account.
Send your text by email to lorna@authorserv.com for a full quote and expected delivery date.
Theses
The emphasis for a thesis is of course to do the job in the few days between the author finishing tweaking and the submission date, with just enough time for the author to do the final review. The schedule can be worked out in advance because the end date is known, so this makes it possible to book your thesis in with us in advance, thereby ensuring that everything gets completed in time.
If you need help with your thesis, contact lorna@authorserv.com to arrange this in advance. Let us know the end date and we will work out a plan for the work to suit everyone. The cost depends on the number of words in the file so this will be an estimate until we receive the final version for editing/language correction. A discount will apply if we have already worked on some of your text.
Example: a 25,000-word thesis costs €625.
Other Documents
We are happy to quote for all types of work involving technical and non-technical text. Examples include:
– proofing text for web pages
– converting PowerPoint slides into styled Word files
– typesetting handwritten mathematical material in Word to create pdf files for printing
– language correction on funding applications
– language correction for a conference abstract (minimal charge if any for regular clients)
– course texts
Software used: Microsoft Word, MathType, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Photoshop, Acrobat.
Contact Us
Email: lorna@authorserv.com
Lorna O’Brien
Elva, New Quay
Burrin, Co. Clare
Ireland
Tel: +353 86 2469965