London, UK, 21 November 2017 – Edinburgh University Press has become the latest prestigious publisher to sign up to ReView, River Valley’s submission and peer review system, in a bid to reduce admin and turnaround times on their journals. Sarah McDonald, Head of Journals at EUP, said: “ReView was intuitive Read more…
London, UK, 1 Feb 2017 – The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), one of the world’s largest engineering institutions, has adopted River Valley’s “ReView”, the nimble and innovative manuscript submission and peer review system, for all their journals. The IET, who had been using ScholarOne for many years, will Read more…
London, UK, 2 December, 2014 – River Valley Technologies, the 25 year old UK-based typesetting company is set to cut production costs and turn around times by half for publishers, by using its new RVPublisher platform. The system is a “pure” XML based end-to-end collaborative authoring and composition solution, comprising Read more…
London, UK, 15 September, 2014 – River Valley Technologies, the leading providers of LaTeX and XML-first typesetting are turning the industry on its head by launching a completely automated XML-based publishing system, RVPublisher. The system is made up of several standalone “modules” that interconnect seamlessly. These include RVRite (River Valley’s Read more…
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For quite a while we have been working on replacing the traditional method of sending PDFs to authors, and receiving annotations. We believe there should be only one “format of record“, namely the XML. (more…)
Automatically generated PDFs have always been around, but the quality has generally not matched those created by a skilled operator, using a dedicated pagination system. Well, our pagination “engine” is TeX, which can be triggered to run automatically, and on a server. (more…)
Some 10 years ago, we started a programme to create a graphical front end for LaTeX. This was a tall order, but version 1 was announced at the TeX Users Group meeting in Portland, Oregon. Creating LaTeX “class files” is a very specialized task. (more…)
When uploading PDFs of publications on their web sites, publishers have several dilemmas:
The innovative new journal, PeerJ, has won the the 2013 ALPSP publishing innovation award! River Valley Technologies are proud to have played a small part, by designing the PDF file for the journal. We worked closely with the PeerJ team to create a design that is comfortable to read both on paper and Read more…
As part of ongoing programme of sponsoring conferences on publishing, we are happy to be sponsors for the STM annual conference in Frankfurt, just before the book fair. As part of the sponsorship we’ll be recording and publishing online all presentations on our TV site.
River Valley will have a stand at the London Book Fair, 16–18 April 2012. Please pop by and hear about:
As the world wide web expands, the problem of identifying authors and contributors gets more serious. The first name and family name and even affiliation are not enough. This is why we have chosen to sponsor a conference in Lithuania next week. As part of the sponsorship we will be Read more…
The science of color is fundamental to publishing. We are therefore proud to be sponsors of the Nineteenth Color and Imaging Conference starting Wednesday 9 November. As usual, recordings of the conference will be available for free viewing on our TV site.
In 2011, River Valley Technologies hosted the TeX Users Group conference for the second time. Stefan Kottwitz wrote detailed reports of each day, and the proceedings were published as usual in TUGBoat. River Valley also produced video recordings, hosted on Zeeba TV. Here are some photos from the conference.