TransAction Editing (partners, Dr. Simon Dunton and V. C. C. Dunton) was established in 1997. Its founder, Simon Dunton (background - B.A. in modern languages, University of Cambridge; Ph.Dr. in general linguistics, Charles University, Prague; plus an EFL teaching qualification), had worked on the Transactions of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy since 1982, and when production of the journal was contracted to him in 1997 it was with the remit to launch an online electronic version. TransAction Editing made the journal available on this Web site from 1998 until 2002 and additionally subcontracted CatchWord (now part of Ingenta) to start an electronic archive in 2001.

Enquiries from publishers who might be able to make use of our experience of editing and producing technical journals will be very welcome. (The contract to produce the Transactions was transferred to Maney Publishing with effect from January 2003.)

TransAction Editing is an associate member of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers. It combines belief in the electronic future of research publication with an intention to maintain high standards of conventional copy-editing and proofreading and hopes thereby to assist publishers in making their content clear to foreign researchers and future generations of scholars as well as the authors' present peers.

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