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A living library of global guidance, statements, and tools to help shape ethical, human-centric AI in research publishing.
Rights Reservation
Recommendations on current mechanisms to reserve rights: Robots.txt, TDMRep, ISCC — and resources to help get you moving.
Copyright & Licensing
Protecting publisher rights in the AI era: STM’s position on copyright, licensing, and responsible content use.
Researcher Perspectives
What researchers think about the use of AI in research: an ongoing curation of articles that capture researchers’ views on AI’s role in the research process.
AI in Science
How AI strengthens discovery, supports researchers, and reinforces the integrity of the scholarly record.
Where Are We Headed?
AI presents opportunities, threats and no shortage of questions. Explore STM Trends — our annual futurecast — and share any questions you may have with us.
Recommendations for a Classification of AI Use in Academic Manuscript Preparation
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Helpful follows & newsletters
Pascal’s Substack | Pascal Hetzscholdt | Substack
Content Licensing Brief (Creative Licensing International)
Rights Tech Extra (Paul Sweeting)
Outside Context (George Walkley)
Charting AI (Graham Lovelace)
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What’s on at STM?
Task & Finish Groups
- Classifying AI Use in Manuscript Preparation | Best Practices Report
- Responsible Use of Research Content in Large Language Models (LLMs)
Events
- STM Innovation & Integrity Days | Dec 2025
- STM’s Ethical & Practical Guidelines for the Use of Generative AI in the Publication Process |Recorded March 2024
The Latest from STM
Making scholarly images more accessible: STM’s Draft Taxonomy now open for feedback
The STM Alt Text Task & Finish Group (TFG) has released a draft image-type taxonomy for scholarly images — and we’re inviting your feedback. This draft is the result of a collaborative effort by STM members to support accessible publishing, with a focus on helping authors and publishers write better image descriptions (alt text). Not only does…
In the Media | Times Higher Education — “Unseen efforts to catch paper mill outputs bear fruit”
In an article on growing threats to research integrity, Times Higher Education covers STM’s report Safeguarding Scholarly Communication: Publisher Practices to Uphold Research Integrity. The article describes how publishers are increasingly focused on identifying integrity issues before publication—responding to paper mills, AI-enabled fabrication, and coordinated fraud networks—while scaling up research integrity teams and collaborating on…
New Report Documents Publisher Investment in Research Integrity Infrastructure
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (January 13, 2026) – A new report, released today, offers the first collective look at the range of approaches scholarly publishers are deploying to tackle threats to research integrity, threats that have evolved in nature and scaled dramatically in recent years. The STM-commissioned report was researched and compiled by research firm Research…
STM supports Copyright Alliance brief in key U.S. copyright case
STM has endorsed an amicus curiae brief filed by the Copyright Alliance in the ongoing U.S. appeals case Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence. The case raises important questions about copyright protection for editorial content — including material similar in nature and function to content produced by STM’s members. The case also presents a set of facts under which the lower court rightly found ROSS’s…