Our experts are divided into seven categories, and the expertise assumes that the expert graduated in one of our specified fields and is familiar with the academic literature addressing particular topics of that field, including in what concerns standards, norms, style, and language.
Categories are: editor/author, reviewer, science interviewer, science journalist, translator, proofreader, and student-paper guide.
Experts’ contributions are compensated, depending on the type of project, through authorships, priority and advantages for the expert’s own submissions, or payment as royalties or fees as follows:
Editors/Authors
Applying successfully for one of our posted editorial projects gives you the internal status of an editor or guest editor. This work assumes organizing, selecting, and adapting a given content according to the editorial guidelines and target, often completed with personal writing contributions. Collected essays/articles, thematic books with collected contributions from scholars, and encyclopedic-type books, require the contribution of an expert editor. The editor’s contribution is compensated through royalties between 5% and 8 % of the list price of the published title, depending on the project.
You may also apply as an author for a project posted as a theme or subject to be developed with your full contribution. For this authorship, royalties are 6% - 8%.
Another kind of assignment may be to write science-related articles or content of any kind for a third-party website or magazine. The work is done per the customer’s instructions regarding topic, style, keywords, references, and length.
Such a writing contribution is assigned upon call and is paid with a fee depending on the complexity of the assignment, including length. To be eligible for such assignments, you must first publish at least one article in our magazine.
Reviewers
The reviewers’ contribution is to read carefully the entire book manuscripts, looking for inconsistencies in content or references and checking the soundness and relevance of the arguments, as well as the appropriateness of language and style relative to the topic and field of the book. Reviewers are asked to suggest rephrasings and revisions if they consider them necessary, as well as to provide for both editors and authors a list of comments and questions regarding the issues found with the manuscript, which the authors must address.
The reviewer assigned to a manuscript should be an expert in that field, familiar with the topic and also with the relevant literature on that topic.
Reviewers are enrolled on a volunteer basis and called by the editorial board to contribute to a project.
Like all academic presses or journals, we are not able to pay the reviewers; however, we do offer a kind of compensation based on authors’ reciprocity. That is, if you complete one review for an author, then when you submit your own book manuscript, once accepted, you will benefit by both priority in processing and a publishing mode implying no costs for you (classical) as well as the highest royalty (8%).
We also issue a reviewer certificate after your first completed review, which you can add to your CV.
Science interviewers
Interviewers’ contributions are required for particular types of projects, based on collected responses of scholars to questions regarding certain topics or issues. Science interview work assumes selection of responders and management of the contacts and correspondence as well as editing the results. Projects may assume completion of a book, but also empirical studies or surveys used further in other scientific projects.
For the former type of projects, compensation is through royalties between 3 and 5 %; for the latter type, different financial compensations are possible, including grant funding.
Science journalists
This type of expert is an exception to the general rule of graduating one of our fields. The science journalist may have any graduated specialty, excellent writing skills, and familiarity with general science topics. S/he may submit articles to our PhilScience Magazine in two categories: science news and essays. Compensation is awarded as royalties of 6 - 7 % only for articles collected in a book, if the book is suitable and accepted for publication.
Translators
As a translator, you may apply to a posted translation project, be called to a project, or self-propose one. The projects proposed by PhilScience Press may be books to be published under our imprint in the target language, or academic articles. Third party translation projects may also be available for assignment.
For most projects, translators are paid on the basis of a unit fee (per 300-word source page), depending on the particularities of each project. For some projects, payment through royalties is also available (5 - 8%). For self-proposed projects of translation of books from the public domain, royalties are 8%. The payment options are posted along with the projects.
Important to note: We are not looking for linguists with philological studies, but for experts in one or more of our fields, native in the target language, with a good command of both the source and target language, and familiar with the academic style and vocabulary (including jargon) of the project’s field in the target language.
Proofreaders
As a proofreader, you polish a text translated by a non-native in the target language, in order to eliminate any grammar or spelling errors and strange-sounding passages (even if grammatically correct), to ensure the accuracy of the expressions and ease of reading and to ensure the final text is at a native level.
Projects are assigned upon call per expertise match and may be translations of books or articles, ours or third parties’ articles.
For all projects, proofreaders are paid on the basis of a unit fee (per 300-word source page), depending on the particularities of each project.
Important to note: We are not looking for linguists with philological studies, but for experts in one or more of our fields, native in the target language, and familiar with the academic style and vocabulary (including jargon) of the project’s field in the target language.
Student-paper guides
The guide will help students when writing their papers, whether homework or essays, specific assignments, personal submissions, dissertations, or master’s or doctoral theses.
Guidance consists of one or more of the following:
1. paper design including structure, adequate and relevant themes and subjects to be touched on, targets, relevant titles
2. suggestion of relevant literature to study and cite
3. proposed argumentative linkage to be studied and incorporated
4. checking the soundness of student’s proposed main arguments
5. suggesting possible elements of originality
6. other suggestions regarding style and format
For this type of contribution, expertise is not limited to our areas, but may span any discipline. Projects are assigned upon call per expertise match, and the fee paid depends on the complexity of the assignment.
Apply now as a PhilScience contributor here.