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On 26 March, the EU Commission’s publishing platform Open Research Europe officially launched at CERN, which will take over operation of the platform this autumn. Only researchers from participating countries will be eligible: Austria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. All of these countries have several Transformative Agreements in place.

The Trump administration has proposed significant cuts to many science agencies in its budget request for fiscal year 2027. Details on the proposals can be found in AIP’s FYI newsletter and the AAAS Budget Analysis. Note that Congress often ignores the details of a budget request, as they did with last year’s similar proposed cuts. The budget request…

After many years of tax exemption, the Chinese government has reintroduced VAT on scholarly materials at a rate of 10.8%.

On 27 March, the National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS Library) announced it will cease updating and releasing its Journal Ranking from 2026, clarifying that any ranking released by other organisations has no connection to the CAS Library.

On March 25, President Trump announced the first 13 appointments to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), which may contain up to 24 appointees. Most of the named advisors come from the tech world and industry, with only one university scientist, UC Santa Barbara physicist John Martinis. PCAST historically has drawn significantly from…

STM has expressed support for Congressional efforts to legislate on AI transparency, with several bills proposed to require AI developers to disclose the use of copyrighted material. The TRAIN Act grants rightsholders the ability to petition courts to subpoena developers to release generative AI training data. The CLEAR Act would require generative AI developers to disclose, available via a…

Following the call for evidence on the ERA Act open between 6 August and 10 September 2025, the EU Commission released a summary of stakeholders’ responses. A fragmented copyright landscape, the lack of standardised metadata and interoperable data infrastructures, inequities arising from APCs, dominance of English in scientific publishing, reliance on commercial publishers and restrictive contractual practices…

Last month we joined other publishing organisations and rightsholders in submitting comments to India’s Working Paper on Generative Artificial Intelligence and Copyright, which proposed a statutory licensing scheme for AI. STM will continue to monitor this issue and engage with stakeholders in India. View the working paper here.

On March 30, 2026, the Association of American Publishers (AAP), News/Media Alliance (N/MA), International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM), and Authors Guild (AG) filed an amicus brief supporting the plaintiffs in Concord Music Group v. Anthropic. This case was brought in October 2023 by several music publishers alleging that Anthropic unlawfully used…

STM has published “Toward Responsible Use of Research Content in Generative AI,” a discussion document putting forward considerations for the responsible use of research content in generative AI tools, and inviting the broader research and GenAI development community to engage. The document focuses on what makes research content and research communication distinct from other types…