[announce] OASIS Member News: Elsevier Science selects eXtyles fromInera for editorial system

[Ken Carson <kcarson@inera.com>]

November 8, 2002
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Elsevier Science selects eXtyles from Inera for editorial system.


Newton, MA, November 8, 2002 – Inera, Inc., one of the leading providers of
editorial and XML production software for the publishing industry today
announced that Elsevier Life Sciences, London, has chosen eXtyles as their
primary automated content editing solution for two major journal families
and related web products.  Working with the world's most respected
scientists and researchers, Elsevier Science has set a high standard for
quality. Its publications are written by international scholars with
excellent technical and scientific credentials, and wide research and
teaching experience in their fields.
eXtyles is a suite of editorial, production and XML tools for Microsoft Word
that has been specifically designed to automate the styling, formatting and
XML production of scholarly journals. eXtyles automates many of the time
consuming tasks faced by editors, allowing them to focus on content and work
more efficiently. eXtyles provides a bridge between editorial departments,
who need easy to use tools, and production departments, who increasingly
need XML for web and print production.



Elsevier Life Sciences, London, will use eXtyles in the editing and
production of the Current Opinion and Trends journal families, two of the
most prestigious and widely circulated scientific journals they produce.
According to Daniel Smith, Publishing Services Director at ES Life Sciences
in London, “When a manuscript comes in from the author, it requires
standardisation and formatting. eXtyles is used in this context to apply
specific House Style rules, without the need for the meticulous (but often
error-prone) 'handwork' which copy editing has in the past required. Copy
can now be prepared incorporating standard terms, fully marked-up
references, tables etc which need not be checked at a further stage in the
process (e.g. by iterative proofreading). This allows editorial staff to
concentrate on less mundane activities, whilst handing off clean content for
structuring more rapidly and with fewer steps in the workflow. This is of
significant benefit in article-based operations, where early publication
online is often seen as beneficial by the author. In addition, the potential
for automated layout of print product can be realised, even with relatively
complex publications."
“We’re delighted that Elsevier Science in London has chosen eXtyles for
their scientific publishing needs”, said Inera CEO Bruce Rosenblum, “it
validates our customer-centric approach of providing specialized solutions
to exactly meet our customer requirements”.
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Inera, Inc., has been providing specialized SGML and XML solutions to the
technical publishing industry for over 10 years.  Inera’s product suite,
eXtyles, is an integrated set of editorial and XML tools for Microsoft Word
that automates editorial and XML production processes. eXtyles is employed
in the production of over 150 prestigious journals. Inera’s customers
include Kluwer Academic Press, Cell Press, European Union Office of
Publications, Rockefeller University and the National Research Council of
Canada.

For additional information, contact Ken Carson, Vice President at
617-969-5287 or 617-834-9217 or kcarson@inera.com