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Publishers speak about expanding global influence

FAMOUS publishers gathered at Tongji University on Wednesday to discuss how to enhance international influence of academic press on a conference to mark the 110th anniversary of the university’s founding.

Arnout Jacobs, CEO of Springer Nature (China), talked about essentials of raising international profile of Chinese institutions.

He said it was a great opportunity for Chinese institutions to increase international visibility and impact as great research and publication had risen fast in terms of both quantity and quality in the past 20 years in China, which had drawn greater attention from global community with increasing talent exchange and network.

He suggested that institutions need to develop a publishing strategy to pick the best balance of portfolio of publication and understand their own positions and strengthens through proper tolls and analysis.

They should also boost international collaboration and exchanges and engage in academic publishing process.

Hugo Zhang, vice president of RELX Group China, gave a speech on how publishers should develop themselves in the digital era.

“Digital era would not kill academic publishing,” said Hugo Zhang, vice president of RELX Group China. “But publishers should not be satisfied with publishing paper publications or building an electronic database, it should serve researchers before, during and after their researches.”

Tongji Press also signed a contract with the ACC Publishing Group at the conference to cooperate in global sale and distribution in the future.

The university also released 110 outstanding doctoral dissertations by its students and launched an exhibition to show about 500 books of its scholars to celebrate its 110th birthday.




 

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