The full-cycle Editorial Intelligence your publishing house needs: from evaluation to global impact.
The future of knowledge does not depend solely on producing it. It depends on making it visible, reliable, shareable and verifiable.
SIMEH is the full-cycle Editorial Intelligence (EI) platform that today's publishing house requires: a Software as a Service (SaaS) system that centralizes, enriches and distributes your catalog metadata through a suite of modules and services spanning multichannel management and distribution, scientometrics, impact analytics and process automation. Built on the international ONIX 3x standard and enriched with proprietary tools in permanent evolution, SIMEH turns every metadata record into a lever for discoverability, visibility and real impact. Today, more than 500 publishers in 15 countries rely on its technology.
SIMEH is a platform in permanent transformation toward Editorial Intelligence. Its roadmap incorporates integrated altmetrics with social media mentions, downloads and presence in bibliographic managers, as well as automated scientometric dashboards that combine citations, digital usage, distribution and commercial performance in a 360° report per title or catalog. Added to this are AI capabilities already in production: from semantic assistants using various AI models and embeddings for natural language search over publishing catalogs, to the automated conversion of publications into podcasts and videos with AI avatars distributed across specialized platforms and social networks. What begins as metadata management ends as the infrastructure from which a publisher evaluates, publishes, distributes, measures and amplifies its impact. SIMEH is not just the source and the destination: it is the engine that makes it possible.
Manage, edit and update all your publication metadata in a single environment, in different formats and versions, without duplication or reprocessing.
Deliver your enriched metadata to distributors, bookstores, libraries and digital platforms worldwide.
Connect your publications with Metabooks, Crossref, DOAB, Scopus, OpenAlex, SciELO, and many other platforms to maximize your global visibility.
Metadata diagnostic and validation module that ensures the quality, consistency and completeness of your editorial information.
Unified author database shared among SIMEH ecosystem users, collaboratively enriched with ORCID, affiliations and more.
AI integrated into the editorial process: abstract translation, automatic subject and keyword assignment, promotional content generation for social media, blogs and podcasts, and semantic assistants for natural language search over catalogs.
Scientometric dashboards combining citations, digital usage, web presence and commercial performance — title by title — so your publishing house can know and demonstrate its real reach.
Continuous development led by SIMEH Scientific, a specialized team that permanently incorporates new features.
Nearly 500 publishers and content institutions — university, commercial, academic, scientific and STM — have an active account in SIMEH across 15 countries in Latin America and Europe.
Each module addresses a real need in the modern editorial workflow.
From a free license to our robust SIMEH PREMIUM solution with AI features; and on-demand access to SIMEH PLUS, with modules designed and consumed according to your specific needs.
| References / formats | Monthly subscription | Annual subscription | Annual savings |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 – 300 | $93 / mes | $990 / año | $126 USD |
| 301 – 600 | $130 / mes | $1,404 / año | $156 USD |
| 601 – 900 | $170 / mes | $1,836 / año | $204 USD |
| 901 – 2,000 | $290 / mes | $3,132 / año | $348 USD |
| 2,001 – 5,000 | $460 / mes | $4,968 / año | $552 USD |
| More than 5,000 | Contact us for a custom quote | ||
* Initial setup: $95 USD — includes 2 hours of training, metadata diagnostics and customer service via tickets.
* The calculation is based on the total number of references/formats (not number of titles). Values in USD.
SIMEH is a central node connecting your publishing house with the leading standards, platforms and indexes of the digital book ecosystem.
Persistent identifiers and global academic citations
Directory of Open Access Books — SIMEH is part of its Trusted Platform Network, ensuring global visibility in open access
International subject classification systems with automatic concordance
Harvesting protocol for institutional repositories and libraries
Automatic ONIX→MARC conversion for library management systems
Unique identification of authors and researchers
International scientific impact indexes
Academic book network of Latin America and the Caribbean
Open database of scientific publications and citations
OAI-PMH systems for platform interconnection and metadata ingestion
International standard for publishing metadata exchange
Direct distribution to sales and distribution platforms
Indexing and visibility in the world's most used academic search engine
Plagiarism detection and originality assurance for journals and books
A unique initiative by SIMEH Scientific that allows STM, university, scientific and academic publishers to declare, verify and publicly communicate the quality standards of their publications.
The DPA (Declaration of Academic Prestige) was born from publishers' need to showcase and certify their editorial quality processes to the global scientific community, connecting directly with platforms such as DOAB, Crossref and the leading international indexes.
The DPA is your editorial quality seal visible to the world. It allows you to:
✓ Differentiate competitively in the Latin American and global academic market.
✓ Facilitate submission and acceptance in high-impact international indexes.
✓ Build trust among authors, researchers, libraries and institutions.
✓ Connect with the global network of quality academic publishers through DOAB and Crossref.
✓ Foster and enable the creation of quality seals at national, regional and international levels, with the participation of external certifying bodies.
A specialized area of HN formed by experts in academic, scientific, university and STM publishing, who live, analyze and solve their needs around standards and best practices in scientific information and communication.
Real institutions, concrete results. This is how SIMEH transforms editorial management in Ibero-America.
SIMEH transformed part of ECOE's editorial workflow around standards and best practices. ECOE is a reference publisher that, with operational clarity, achieved integrations with its accounting system SIIGO and a connection with Bookwire for global distribution. The result: greater speed, better classification, more discoverability and a direct increase in sales. DOI assignment projected its catalog into global knowledge networks.
The Network of University and Academic Publishers of Mexico (Altexto) and the Association of University Publishers of Latin America and the Caribbean (EULAC) implemented SIMEH as the central platform for collaborative metadata management of their member publishers, with shared thematic catalogs and development of strategic projects for their members.
Various institutions using Open Monograph Press (OMP) integrated with SIMEH for base metadata connection and enriched metadata management, DOI assignment and XML-BITS publication, significantly improving their eligibility for international indexes and their academic visibility.
The Universidad Nacional de Colombia Press recorded a growth of 179% in products and 182% in references after implementing SIMEH Premium. A custom digital ecosystem (CDE) was built with integration to Bookwire, DOAB, e-book library and POD, export for international book fairs and a pre-sales module on its portal portaldelibros.unal.edu.co, all within a complex publishing ecosystem where SIMEH + web platform + content delivery solutions, provided by Hipertexto – Netizen, play a fundamental role.
SIMEH leads the integration between the Papyrus and Magento systems to build the Libros UNAM digital ecosystem: metadata automation with UNAM, THEMA and BISAC taxonomies, real-time synchronization, preparation for multichannel distribution (Bookwire, Red Altexto, EULAC) and elimination of manual processes. Changes at the source are reflected within minutes in the Libros UNAM public catalog.
SIMEH powers an intelligent assistant integrated into the OJS and OMP portals of Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia (UNAD), based on OpenAI embeddings and GPT-4. The system enables natural language search over the editorial catalog, contextual answers with source citations and usage monitoring via Google Analytics — strictly limited to metadata validated by SIMEH.
Several publishers are using SIMEH Plus solutions on demand to transform publications into automated multimedia content: podcasts with natural voice synthesis (distributed to Spotify and Apple Podcasts) and marketing videos with AI avatars (up to 30 seconds, optimized for social media and trade fairs). Everything centralized in SIMEH via API, with metadata preserved for traceability. The result: automated marketing with no direct human intervention.
SIMEH's incorporation into the Trusted Platform Network of DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books) has opened a direct channel for publishers with SIMEH Premium accounts to project their open access catalogs to global audiences. Metadata managed in SIMEH flows directly to DOAB, maximizing international visibility of the region's publications with no intermediary steps or reprocessing.
Through the SIMEH–Metabooks partnership, connected publishers can distribute their enriched metadata to thousands of bookstores, platforms and commercial catalogs worldwide. Metabooks translates metadata quality into real presence at the digital point of sale: greater discoverability, more active channels and better positioning in the global book distribution ecosystem.
Our Hipertexto – Netizen and SIMEH team will guide you to understand your specific needs and show you how SIMEH can transform your publishing house with full-cycle EI: from publication to global impact.
SIMEH is an initiative of Hipertexto – Netizen, a company specialized in editorial digital transformation for Latin America with more than 20 years of experience supporting university, academic and commercial publishers.