Associations

Content conversion and enrichment solutions delivered with accuracy, quality, and speed

Customized Solutions for Complex Digital Content Challenges

DCL provides conversion and subject matter expertise for the specific workflows and challenges Association Publishers face in an increasingly competitive world. Where accuracy, quality and speed matter, Association Publishers rely on DCL to provide customized solutions to complex digital content production challenges.

Services and solutions

Digitizing entire content corpus
Automating complex page composition
Transforming content collections to updated standards (e.g., JATS 1.2, NISO STS, BITS, etc.)
eBook production for special collections (e.g., ePUB and MOBI)
Migrating content for platform vendors (e.g., Silverchair, Highwire, Atypon, Ingenta, PubFactory, etc.)
Supporting ongoing delivery to discovery vendors with DCL Discovery Bridge (e.g., EBSCO, ProQuest, Kudos, OCLC, Web of Science, and others)
Accessibility and Section 508

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Library of Congress

LOC Agent

DCL is the first agent to be selected for this critical initiative. DCL's services for the LOC include

Facilitating the process of depositing eSerials with the U.S. Copyright Office
Assuring compliance and acceptability of eSerials
Providing conversion services as needed to convert documents to LOC-preferred formats, including NISO JATS 1.2, ePUB, and more

DCL has entered into a cooperative agreement with the Library of Congress (LOC) to act as an agent for deposit of eSerials on behalf of publishers to fulfill mandatory deposit demands and deposits in support of copyright registration at the U.S. Copyright Office and Library of Congress.

DCL has met all of the Library’s specifications including extensive expertise with the PubMed Central Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) specification for institutional repositories, commercial publishers, and association publishers. DCL also supports ongoing and back-file conversion to the NLM book DTD and can act as an agent for depositing ebooks.

Additional Services for Associations

Your content, transformed, validated, enriched.

Following are related transformation services for association publishers.

EBooks

DCL transforms manuscripts into high-quality ebooks for all devices. We specialize in both fixed layout and reflowable text. As the mobile marketplace continues to expand and create new opportunities in technology, DCL continues to adapt to these changes to develop and produce the best eBook conversions possible.

Accessibility Starts With Structure

Accessibility is an approach to content and design that makes information available in alternative formats for people with vision impairment. DCL creates Section 508-compliant PDFs from both legacy PDF and image files. DCL’s expertise in analyzing content, providing compliance audits, and remediating, assures you a smooth process that makes content accessible to all.

Source Formats

Hardcopy
PDF
Word processing
Spreadsheets
Slide presentations
Images
Microfilm/fiche
Audio
Video
Unstructured data
Adobe InDesign
Quark Xpress

Target Formats

NLM / JATS
XML
BITS
NISO STS
NIMAS
DITA
Other DTDs and schemas
HTML5
Bookshelf XML for books
EPUB
MOBI

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DCL's conversion work for us---both large projects and smaller, ongoing conversions---is fast, reliable, and highly accurate. They are a valued partner.

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