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

LOC Agent
DCL is the first agent to be selected for this critical initiative. DCL's services for the LOC include
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Facilitating the process of depositing eSerials with the U.S. Copyright Office
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Assuring compliance and acceptability of eSerials
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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.
Source Formats
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Hardcopy
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PDF
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Word processing
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Spreadsheets
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Slide presentations
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Images
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Microfilm/fiche
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Audio
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Video
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Unstructured data
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Adobe InDesign
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Quark Xpress
Target Formats
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NLM / JATS
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XML
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BITS
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NISO STS
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NIMAS
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DITA
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Other DTDs and schemas
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HTML5
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Bookshelf XML for books
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EPUB
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MOBI