A living library of global guidance, statements, and tools to help shape ethical, human-centric AI in research publishing.
Recommendations on current mechanisms to reserve rights: Robots.txt, TDMRep, ISCC — and resources to help get you moving.
Protecting publisher rights in the AI era: STM’s position on copyright, licensing, and responsible content use.
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.
How AI strengthens discovery, supports researchers, and reinforces the integrity of the scholarly record.
AI presents opportunities, threats and no shortage of questions. Explore STM Trends — our annual futurecast — and share any questions you may have with us.
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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Events
We’re excited to introduce a new element to this year’s Innovation & Integrity Days program: a series of expert-led Research Integrity workshops, debuting on 9 December during the afternoon of the STM Innovator Fair. This addition comes in direct response to feedback from recent attendees looking for more applied, research-integrity-focused learning ahead of STM Research Integrity Day (10 December). These optional interactive…
The European Commission is gathering stakeholder feedback on the upcoming European Research Area (ERA) Act, expected for Q3 2026, through a questionnaire open until 5 January 2026. Questions related to OA mandates and rights retention strategies are included under the section ‘Free circulation of scientific knowledge’, including the option ‘the applicable legal frameworks should be reviewed to improve legal…
The work programme of the EU Commission provides an overview of all that the institution will be working on in the coming year. For example, the ERA Act is included under ‘New initiatives’. Besides what was inserted in the programme, it is also interesting to note that, despite the evaluation of the Copyright Directive of 2019 being planned for next year,…
The Australian government decided not to proceed with a text and data mining (TDM) exception to facilitate AI training. Such a recommendation was included in an interim report by the Productivity Commission over the summer, and may still be included in the final report due in December. The Copyright & AI Reference Group (CAIRG) has also been reactivated…