Beijing conference unveils cutting-edge innovations

At the 3rd PubTech Conference, cutting-edge technologies were unveiled, including Clarivate's Academic AI Platform, MDPI's Journal & Article Management System (JAMS), CNPIEC Kexin's Luffa AI Studio for deep research, and Scinapse, an AI research intelligence platform by South Korea's Pluto Labs.

These latest technologies deliver diverse smart solutions for advancing scientific innovations and optimizing publishing workflows.

Held at the Beijing International Convention Center last week, the PubTech Conference was pivotal in the 31st Beijing International Book Fair that closed on Sunday.

Hosted by China National Publications Import & Export (Group) Co and co-organized by the Society of China University Journals and APPA Key Laboratory of Intelligent Publishing and Knowledge Service, the conference attracted over 300 participants from publishing houses, research institutions, digital technology enterprises, and libraries worldwide.

The PubTech Conference is a high-level international platform committed to driving industry frontiers and fostering in-depth collaborations, said Lin Liying, president of the CNPIEC, in her opening speech.

"Publishing's Future Empowered by Technology", the theme for this year's conference, focused on academic publishing and brought leading experts from top global publishing companies, research institutions, and international organizations.

Discussions centered on various topics — publishing integrity, corpus construction, and copyright protection in the context of technological innovation.

Caroline Sutton, chief executive officer of the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers, said technological innovation remains the driving force in publishing development, praising China's leading practices in digital publishing.

At the keynote session, six speakers, including Yao Changqing, deputy director of the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, and Arnold Pippel, senior vice-president of Customer Experience & Innovation from Elsevier, shared their insights about the transformation of academic publishing in the intelligent era and its global trends and innovation practices.

Technology has reshaped knowledge production and dissemination in the intelligence era, enhanced research integrity management, redefined copyright protection mechanisms, and deepened AI applications throughout the publishing life cycle, thus transforming the entire publishing ecosystem, they said.