You start the process by sending us the following:

• The working title and publication format
• An elevator pitch of a few sentences
• Who is your intended audience and why is your book valuable to them. (What are the book's three main selling points?)
• A rough outline of chapters
• If available, a few pages from your current draft
• An estimate of when you think you'll be done

• A short biography stating your qualifications to write this book (and a resume if you wish)
• Your experience as a writer. We're happy to work with first-time authors if you compensate your lack of experience with ambition, perfectionism, enthusiasm, and energy

You continue your work. While you write, you can always get input on early drafts - just ask! To save time, please indicate at which level of detail you want us to give feedback.

When you feel your publication is ready, you submit it for peer review.

You review the editorial suggestions and apply what you deem appropriate.

You review the editorial suggestions and apply what you deem appropriate.

You proofread your draft for grammar and spelling and submit your final version.

You prepare for the interview (½ day), and participate in the interview (1 day). We do it in a relaxing atmosphere and you don't have to be nervous. It's fun but requires concentration.

The editorial board will convene and we will evaluate your publication proposal and its potential. We will notify you of our decision within two weeks.

Your editor will invite two qualified reviewers and coordinate a peer review based on the reviewing guidelines. Your editor will make sure that the peer review is helpful and constructive.

The peer review will be based on the quality of the publication, with special attention given to the accuracy of the coverage of the topic, fairness to alternative positions, and clarity for the intended target group. The peer review is double-blinded.

We operate with four possible decisions:

• acceptance in its current form with no revisions
• acceptance contingent on some revisions
• rejection with an invitation to revise and resubmit
• rejection with no invitation to resubmit

Your manuscript is returned to you and you are invited to revise it based on the constructive and helpful peer-reviewers.

Your editor will assign a copy editor who will read your manuscript word-by-word, sentence-by-sentence and make a thorough copy edit.

Your editor can also help with illustrations, photos, videos, and the like. We can shoot professional-grade photos, if relevant.

Your editor, copy editor, and illustrator will:

• Perform final proofreading
• Do layout
• For the eVersions, we convert your manuscript to html in a way that makes it ready for all future updates of the (x)html standards and readable on any device: Small or large. Old or brand new. We do not use any proprietary formats.
• Make zoomable versions of your illustrations.
• Validate and input all your references into the system so that inline name-year references become clickable in the online version.
• Do technical set-up of your page in the CMS system (with dynamic reference lists, info on how to cite your page, include your picture and biography, etc)
• Include illustrations, photos, videos, and the like (resizing, compressing, cropping, color-grading, etc)
• Request permission to use copyrighted materials from third-party copyright holders, research possible copyright issues, etc.
• Set up the statistics module so you can track your readership.

If you have chosen to have public commentaries included, other leading figures are invited to make public commentaries on your chapter prominently featured in the given chapters. Public commentaries are based on these guidelines. Their goal is to amend, extend and add further perspectives - not so much to criticize. Your editor copy edits and proofreads the commentaries. Example.

If possible, we will find a way of meeting you to shoot a video interview with you. It takes Rikke two days of preparation, a full day of interviewing including setup of lights, sound, etc. with assistance from Mads, and another week to edit the video (everything from cutting, color-grading, sound editing, etc). We may also be able to record and edit your favorite lecture and target it for online learning.

Your editor will make preparations for dissemination and publicity of your chapter:

• Schedule inclusion in our network of blog owners and communities
• Prepare publicity text for the Encyclopedia mailing list (16,049 members)
• Prepare publicity text for our social media feeds (42,590 subscribers)
• Prepare publicity text for the RSS news feeds (4,178 daily readers)
• Prepare publicity text for all 144,286 pages on the site

Publicity on blogs, on our website, communities, mailing lists, etc.

We immediately release the online and eBook versions. The very second after this, we start preparing the print version. This ensures an ultra-fast time-to-market.

End result: A multi-platform, free, and open approach to publishing. Your book will reach hundreds of thousands of readers globally.