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From around the Globe: Philippines
OUP Journals Typesetting and

Copyediting Adoption of Magnus

By Den Lim-Ciron

with 64 additional titles by
early 2019, turning their
engagement for Journals
Typesetting and Copyediting
alone to approximately
100,000 annual typeset pages.
This exhibits an exceptional
growth in the account’s
volume within only one and
a half years.
The Journals Typesetting and Copyediting engagement of SPi Global
for Oxford University Press (OUP) commenced in June 2017. SPi has To further establish its
had a long-standing partnership with OUP for Books Typesetting, foothold, the team is
Journal Editorial Office (JEO), Backlist Conversion, and expanding further its
Customer Service. investment in Technology

with auto-structuring and
A recently acquired project, Journals Typesetting and Copyediting auto-typesetting, both of
started with the processing of 12 titles with 19,000 LaTeX pages. which were implemented
OUP reached out to SPi due to the latter’s service reliability as this December. These automa-
evidenced in the Books Typesetting, Journal Editorial Office (JEO), tions will be linked to Magnus.
Backlist Conversion, and Customer Service engagements. The
Journals Typesetting and Copyediting engagement ensued upon Magnus is a workflow
OUP’s decision to transition its titles from a previous vendor. management system that is
Supplier training and title handovers transpired from August fully deployed across the
to October 2017 and went live in November 2017. different sites of SPi Global.
Its full implementation in the
The team is currently composed of 50 operators, including copy- OUP Journals Typesetting and
editors, layout specialists, and journal account officers. Thirteen Copyediting engagement will
more titles, adding 16,000 pages to the account, were granted to be a first in Parañaque. It allows
SPi in August 2018 due to the team’s ability to hit its targets and integration among different
maintain its delivery and quality performance. The OUP Journals systems, tracking and monitor-
Typesetting and Copyediting project ranked number one among five ing of jobs, file management,
OUP suppliers for the months of January, March, May, June, July, and and API integration for ease of
November. This ranking is based on several factors, including orchestrated automations.
communication, delivery performance, and quality.

As the team continues to maintain its strong position by providing
exemplary performance, OUP has committed to ramp up further