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River Valley Technologies launches content hosting platform
River Valley Technologies has launched a content hosting platform, and the final component of its XML-based scholarly publishing solution
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ProofCheck by River Valley
After evaluating several competing products in 2016, De Gruyter has chosen River Valley’s online proofing platform, ProofCheck.
De Gruyter had previously been sending authors their proofs in PDF format for annotation. Authors’ corrections would then be implemented to produce the final publication. De Gruyter was looking for a faster and more reliable system in order to minimise admin within the publication workflows of their online-only journals.
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River Valley Technologies, the UK-based typesetting company, says its new RVPublisher platform will cut production costs and turn around times in half for publishers
RVPublisher
River Valley Technologies to launch automated XML publishing system

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