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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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A curated, living library of
- global guidance
- statements
- tools
— to help shape ethical, human-centric AI in research publishing —organised by country and region.
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
STM Frankfurt Conference 2026 – a more optimistic outlook for scholarly communication through cooperation and trust
The STM Frankfurt Conference took place this week, bringing together over 300 delegates from across the scholarly communications ecosystem to consider a rapidly changing system, where trust in research can no longer be assumed, AI agents are becoming key consumers of scholarly content, and publishers face growing pressure from rising submission volumes, geopolitical uncertainty, and…
STM and Ithaka S+R launch research project on the interface between scholarly content and AI
“The Endpoint Question” will examine how scholarly content should meet AI agents at the point of access As AI-powered research assistants and agentic systems become an increasingly important route to scholarly content, STM and Ithaka S+R today announced a new independent study, and invite publishers’ technical teams, platform providers, AI developers and open repositories to…
STM publishes recommendations to improve medical and health science data sharing policies
STM has published new voluntary recommendations as a practical aid to help publishers and journals improve the clarity of data sharing information for medical and health science researchers — a field where participant privacy, regulatory requirements, and ethical obligations make generic policy language especially difficult to apply. STM Medical Data Sharing Guidance was developed by…
Gold OA continues to drive open access growth as the market matures
Gold OA articles jumped to its highest share ever in 2025, accounting for 44% of all global journal articles, reviews, and conference papers published, based on the latest release of the STM Open Access Dashboard. Nearly two million research articles were published gold OA in 2025, making it the principal driver of immediate, freely available…