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Editor: Ed Highley

Clarus Design Pty Ltd

Tel: 6296 1461, 0412 358 151; fax: (02) 6231 9125     Email: ed@clarusdesign.com

Clarus Design editors and writers are graduates or postgraduates in science and the humanities. Ed Highley is a member of the European Association of Science Editors, and is the Canberra Society of Editors’ delegate to the Council of Australian Societies of Editors.

Services

  • Editing—A full range of editing, writing, and printed and electronic document production services
  • Other services—Design, typesetting and printing; website design and hosting
  • Subject fields—Agriculture, biology, the environment, general
  • Media—Research reports, conference proceedings, monographs, economic impact assessment reports, project summaries, newsletters, CDs, website content

Specific projects

Clarus provides services to government and private research, development and extension agencies. Representative recent (2004-05) projects include: Proceedings of the XI International Symposium on Biological Control of Weeds (conference proceedings); China’s Agricultural and Rural Development in the Early 21st Century (monograph); Aboriginal Management and Planning for Country: Respecting and Sharing Traditional Knowledge (project report); Linking Farmers With Markets (online bulletin board at ); Winning New Ways for Australia. Recent Highlights of the Cooperative Research Centres Program (promotional booklet); Diversity and Management of Phytophthora in Southeast Asia (monograph)

Clarus Design is a ‘one-stop’ shop for the production of printed and electronic publications. We use Microsoft Office and the full suite of Adobe design and web software. We build dynamic websites using PHP and MySQL.