Intelligent Automation for Publishers, Evolved
Smart Publish™, KGL’s high-speed, quality-assured production platform, can take manuscripts from acceptance to author proofs in 24 hours. By uniting human intelligence and care with sophisticated technology such as NLP, AI, automated templates, and workflow engines, Smart Publish alleviates wait times while achieving best-in-class editorial and typographic quality with record-setting speed to publication.
Smart Submission™
An AI-assisted submission intelligence platform that serves as the entry point to Smart Publish, improving manuscript quality before a submission ever reaches the editorial workflow. Authors upload in the format they wrote in, while Smart Submission extracts and validates metadata, resolves ORCID and funder identifiers, checks references, screens for research integrity issues, and confirms that ethics and policy declarations are in place. Problems are flagged at the point of submission with clear, plain-language guidance, reducing return requests and unsubmissions. Manuscripts are then converted to XML and handed off to the publisher’s existing manuscript management system, so editors receive complete, decision-ready submissions and production begins with structured content. Learn more >
Smart Review®
A new integrated tool that automates a variety of tasks that occur during the peer review process: screening for common submission checklist elements like disclosures, metadata, and image integrity, identifying reviewers, identifying conflicts of interest between authors and reviewers, and assessing language for either manuscript triage or to determine the level of copyediting post acceptance. New integrations with common manuscript submission systems and proprietary checks for paper mills and data compliance ensure efficient workflow management and research integrity. Learn more >
Smart Edit®
A pre-edit, copyedit, and conversion system that incorporates natural language processing and AI to benefit publishers in terms of editorial quality and better, faster markup and delivery to output channels. Smart Edit comprises several components that run together seamlessly, transforming raw, unedited manuscripts into edited, structured, and valid XML files. Contextual copyediting updates include chunk tokenization and machine learning enhancements, making Smart Edit an independent self-learning editorial program for the future.
Smart Compose®
A fully automated production engine that ingests structured output from Smart Edit to generate professionally composed page proofs. Designed to work with 3B2, InDesign, and LaTeX composition platforms that support full automation, the module delivers instant PDF/ePub generation. Publisher specified styles guarantee consistent, high-quality layouts. The latest features include built-in validations, and the ability to dynamically combine articles, generate TOCs, and create accessible PDFs.
Smart Proof®
A web-based proof review and correction tool for updating content in real time while maintaining the source XML, now supporting LaTeX and rendering equations using MathJAX. The automated roundtripping of text-only changes in Smart Proof means that authors and editors receive revised proofs in less than an hour. The module has received extensive feature enhancements and additions, including collaborative editing, figure and table handling, security, spell check, commenting, reference and citation editing, internal and external linking, accessibility, and more.
Smart Track®
A cloud-based workflow and file management system that manages user tasks and logs all content transactions. The user interface presents a
workflow overview, which includes extensive metadata management, file access, and task assignment that improves both system and individual performance. Smart Track has moved to the next level of automation with ability to manage content based on metadata/dynamic system reports, automated event-based workflow identification, customizable user interface, and HTTPS endpoints.
Smart Report®
A new dashboard that integrates with Smart Track to provide complete access to article and chapter data, including key metadata from
connected systems, and enables publishers to generate advanced, custom reports. The configurable and interactive dashboard provides standard and customizable charts and graphs that track the most common elements of production, while delivering the information with historical and current data trends to monitor performance.
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