JOINAccess
Practical guidance on communicating open access options clearly, expanding participation through global initiatives and tracking impact to ensure programmes meet community needs.
Open Communications
Guidance on transparent OA policy and pricing, consistent progress reporting using shared metrics and the tools that help authors make informed decisions about how they publish.
Open Methods
Recommendations for supporting transparent, reproducible research — covering persistent identifiers, open code and datasets, discipline-standard reporting guidelines and public involvement in peer review.
Open Data
Guidance on endorsing FAIR and CARE data principles, establishing clear data policies, and encouraging responsible data sharing — so research data is as open, traceable and reusable as the research itself.
The Latest from STM
New report: Phase II of China’s Excellence Action Plan for STM Journals
STM consultants Shuai Yan, Mark Robertson, and Eric Na have published a detailed report on Phase II of China’s Excellence Action Plan — the largest national initiative in Chinese scholarly publishing, now supporting 13 journal cluster pilot projects with 45 million RMB in annual funding. Phase II has a clear ambition: a publishing ecosystem built…
EU Parliament event on research integrity highlights collective responsibility
On 10 June, the European Parliament’s STOA panel (on the future of science and technology) held a session highlighting AI, system-level misaligned incentives, and research culture as key factors behind the rise in research integrity issues. Several speakers encouraged a focus on the reasons motivating misconduct rather than on post-fact enforcement, although the importance of…
New report on China’s STM Journal Excellence Action Plan
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…
EU Commission’s consultation on TDM rights reservation protocols
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…