From the Standing Committee on Academic Editing
The Standing Committee on Academic Editing (SCAE) is committed to improving rates of pay and access to work for IPEd’s community of academic editors. With this goal in mind, we recently wrote to more than 250 high-level academic stakeholders across Australia and New Zealand, including deputy vice chancellors, deans of research, postgraduate student officers, and student unions, as well as the Australian Council of Graduate Research, the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations, Universities New Zealand, the Group of Eight, the New Zealand Research Association and the Australian Research Management Society.
The aim of SCAE’s outreach is to inform academic stakeholders that IPEd has several resources that can help their staff and students to prepare high-quality work. We seek to make universities and research administrators aware that their staff and students can use IPEd’s Editors Directory to search for an academic editor, and that they can find the indicative costs of hiring an academic editor on the IPEd website.
The correspondence included the following:
IPEd standards for editing practice
IPEd has recently released the third edition of the IPEd standards for editing practice, formerly known as the Australian standards for editing practice released in 2001 and 2013. The Standards sets out the core standards that professional editors should meet.
Guidelines for editing research theses
IPEd has produced guidelines for supervisors, students and editors on editing theses, last updated in 2019. The guidelines refer to the IPEd standards for editing practice in setting out appropriate types of editing for theses and provide guidance on engaging and working with an academic editor.
Indicative costs of academic editing
The SCAE has prepared a table of indicative costs of editing different types of academic material to guide clients in budgeting and planning. We have provided guidance on the many factors that can affect the price of academic editing.
Online directory of professional editors
Staff and students can search IPEd’s online directory to find an editor using various criteria including product (e.g. academic thesis or journal article; training or educational material), subject area, location and Accredited Editor status. Of the approximately 340 editors in the directory, over 200 editors have indicated they are available for academic editing.