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They "edit" them in the sense that they pay an Indian outsourcing company to fuck up your formatting, then send you a list of typos that aren't.
by revelation 9y ago
They "edit" them in the sense that they pay an Indian outsourcing company to fuck up your formatting, then send you a list of typos that aren't.
- delib 9y agoRight (although this depends on the journal). But these problems are a function of Elsevier's immense market power as well.
- jhbadger 9y agoIt varies a lot by field. I'm a computational biologist and have dealt with both the CS and biology ways of doing things. In CS you send a formatted LaTeX manuscript to the publisher and they basically just print that, but the traditional biology way is just to send a Word document with little formatting at all. It is considered the job of the publisher to turn the Word document into something that actually is formatted.