WHY

• Knowledge-creation, discovery and sharing is best enabled when the final articles resulting from all stages of the peer-review and
  publication process are immediately openly available to all.
• The VoR is the most thoroughly vetted version of the research publication, having been through all stages of the peer-review and
  publication process. We know from author feedback that they prefer OA being to the VoR. A key feature of the VoR is that it is the version against which any future corrections (for a Corrected Version of Record) or enhancements
  (Enhanced Version of Record) will be made.

HOW

• By urging funders and institutions to work with publishers to enable researchers to choose Gold OA to achieve OA to the VoR.
• By monitoring the uptake of different routes to Open Access through the STM OA Dashboard

WHY

• Research integrity is an issue that requires community-wide involvement to uphold.

HOW

• Through the development of standards, tools and solutions to improve and  ensure the integrity of publications—regardless  of access model.
• By engaging stakeholders  globally – to define and  build the critical infrastructure needed to  support open and trusted scholarly communications at scale.

WHY

• This innovation and investment will only grow in importance as the corpus of research that comprises the academic record grows.

HOW 

• Publishers invest heavily in the operation of peer review publication processes, curation and stewardship of the scholarly record at scale.

WHY 

• These undermine the subscription model they are dependent upon and carry with them potential unintended consequences.
• OA models that promote immediate open access to accepted manuscripts with zero embargoes are not viable for a majority of STM publishers.

WHY 

• To strengthen trust and integrity in the final work and to speed up discovery.

HOW 

• STM is committed to convening and working with stakeholders to further open research practices and to create a linked, interoperable, robust, and trustworthy scholarly record that encompasses preprints, research data, protocols, code, etc. All of these outputs, have their role and place within the  scholarly record, alongside the Version of  Record.