Trade/Text Book and Learning Materials Publication Process

The whole process is divided into three parts: (1) preproduction, (2) production, and (3) post-production.

Preproduction

Pre-production involves the generation of manuscript and evaluation. This stage is under the supervision of UCMIMO in accordance with guidelines pertaining to the development of instructional materials (BOR Resolution No. U-2153, s. 2014).

Production

 Manuscript Stage

After the revisions of the manuscript, a clean copy will be sent to the production desk for mechanical and content editing. The first level of edit is done wherein the editor does both mechanical and content editing, posting questions addressed to the author and/or reviewer, when necessary. The production officer then decides if the edited manuscript will be sent to the author for revisions. Once done, the revisions will be validated by the editor and will be sent to an external reviewer. The reviewer does in-depth content validation making sure that the manuscript is free from conceptual errors. All the revisions done by the reviewer will also be validated by the editor (and the author, if needed). Once all the comments by the editor and reviewer has been addressed and validated by the author, the manuscript is subjected to authenticity test. If an accepted percentage of similiarity is achieved, the manuscript will be sent to the copyeditor. The copyeditor does further mechanical editing and checks if the manuscript is ready for layout. It then goes back to the editor who prepares the manuscript and other elements (such as illustration and images) for layout.

Proof Stage

The manuscript is then sent to the layout artist, who generates the proofs. Proofs are basically the “drafts” of the final print material. This means the manuscript now looks like what you will see as a textbook. At this stage, the proofs bounce back and forth from the layout artist to the editor for proofreading and revisions. Before preparing the print-ready version of the proofs, the editor implores the help of other editors to “plainread” and “spot” for errors in the proofs. Once all the errors have been corrected, the layout artist does a final print-ready version to be sent to the post-production.

Post-production

Here, the print-ready copy is printed, copied, and bound to look like the textbook we know. This is sent to PBDO for marketing purposes.