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.
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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…