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This week, STM is in Beijing for the PubTech Conference and STM APAC Conference, convening publishers, technologists, librarians, and researchers from across the Asia-Pacific region around openness, integrity, and inclusion. Alongside the event, STM consultants Shuai Yan and Mark Robertson, together with STM China Chapter chair Eric Na, have published a detailed report on Phase II…

The European Commission is exploring methods for reserving TDM/AI rights, with a view to making the most mature ones mandatory for AI companies to read and respect under the AI Act’s Code of Practice. A first workshop took place on 2 June, with TDMRep emerging as the protocol with the most support among rightsholders. STM…

Starting in 2027, Australia will associate to Pillar II of Horizon Europe, covering societal challenges across digital, industry and space; climate, energy and mobility; and food, bioeconomy and agriculture. Under this arrangement, Australian entities will no longer need to self-fund or rely on narrow exceptions, and will instead be treated as ‘eligible entities’ from an…

On Thursday 11 June, the Cypriot Presidency of the EU Council reached a compromise proposal for the next EU budget, in response to the Commission’s proposal. The Council’s compromise proposes a 2% cut to the Commission’s overall budget and includes a Research & Innovation allocation (€148.6 billion for Horizon Europe) that is 15% lower than the Commission’s…

STM strongly opposes the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)’s proposed revisions to the Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance. We stand with colleagues across the library, university, and research communities in warning that these provisions will undermine the independent, rigorous system that has made American science the envy of the world.   The United States has…

In response to a Nature News request for comment on the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)’s  proposed revisions to U.S. federal funding regulations affecting publication and dissemination of federally funded research, STM CEO Caroline Sutton said: “We remain baffled by the idea that publishing research could be seen as anything other than central to…

How do we strengthen trust in the scholarly record at a time of rapid technological change and increasing pressures on researchers? In an interview with Research Professional News, STM CEO Caroline Sutton discusses the need for a more constructive culture around research retractions. She urges for clearer distinctions between honest mistakes and “manipulative” behaviour. She…

In March, NIH released a ‘Framework for the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2027-2031 (FY27-FY31)’, outlining three priority areas for NIH to ‘advance its mission to support research in pursuit of fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems, and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and…

Directory of Open Access Journals and Society of China University Journals have announced a new partnership aimed at increasing the visibility and discoverability of high-quality Chinese open access journals both within China and internationally. The two organisations will continue collaborating on the DOAJ China Day events previously held in 2023 and 2025. DOAJ now indexes over 550 Chinese journals.

STM participates in a working group that the EU COM runs on AI in science, which last month published the third version of ‘Living guidelines on the responsible use of generative AI in research’.  Further thematic working groups have now been set up to consider updates on the use of AI in evaluation of proposals,…