Scholarly communications is in the midst of a great reimagining. Long-established organisations are partnering with vibrant start-ups to drive change — to leverage technology and creatively advance trusted research. To zero in on early detection of integrity issues, spotting the best experts and peer reviewers, and automate knowledge extraction to smartly navigate extensive literature.
STM’s Start-Up Day champions these changemakers. On December 6 — as part of STM Week held at the Congress Centre in London — we will convene a broad selection of the best and brightest drivers of change: the start-ups and entrepreneurs that are fueling innovation in scholarly communications. See our curated list of roughly 25 participating startups below.
In lightning presentations and live demonstrations, they will share their concepts — solutions ranging from research integrity checks, tools for knowledge discovery, and expert identification to extraction/discovery tools for navigating research literature — and beyond. Here, you will:
The Vesalius Innovation Award organized by Karger Publishers, and sponsored by Molecular Connections in collaboration with STM, is a high-standing award.
Now in its third year, this year will enjoy its first live ceremony. The award is granted to a ground-breaking start-up in publishing offering solutions to the knowledge cycle in health sciences. The Jury Verdict will be made public at the end of the fair. There will be a second award ceremony — STM Start-up Fair Audience Popularity Award — where the audience determines the winner via live voting.
9:00 |
Registration |
9:30 |
Welcome and opening by Eefke Smit, Director of Standards and Technology, STM |
10:00 |
Flash talks by each Start Up, 5 minutes each Moderated by: Phill Jones, Co-Founder, Digital and Technology at MoreBrains Consulting Cooperative Presentations by: Alviss.ai, ImageTwin, Prophy, SciScore, ScientifyRESEARCH, Figcheck, Imachek, Proofig, GetFTR (Get Full-Text Research), Radioteraquiz |
11:00 |
Session: Accelerating Innovation: How to Scout Start-Ups for Partnerships? |
11:20 |
More Flash Talks by Start-Ups, 5 minutes each Moderated by: Phill Jones, Co-Founder, Digital and Technology at MoreBrains Consulting Cooperative Presentations by: Appetence, ChronosHub, Every Author Pub, SciFlow, Audemic, OA.mg, Global Campus, Hum.works, Graphium, PSI Metrics, PeerRef, Reviewer Credits |
12:15 |
Lunch |
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Flash talks by each Start Up, 5 minutes each Moderated by: Phill Jones, Co-Founder, Digital and Technology at MoreBrains Consulting Cooperative Presentations by: Alviss.ai, ImageTwin, Prophy, SciScore, ScientifyRESEARCH, Figcheck, Imachek, Proofig, GetFTR (Get Full-Text Research), Radioteraquiz |
14:00 |
Session: Accelerating Innovation: How to scout Start-Ups for Partnerships? |
14:20 |
More Flash Talks by Start Ups, 5 minutes each Moderated by: Phill Jones, Co-Founder, Digital and Technology at MoreBrains Consulting Cooperative Presentations by: Appetence, ChronosHub, Every Author Pub, SciFlow, Audemic, OA.mg, Global Campus, Hum. works, Graphium, PSI Metrics, PeerRef, Reviewer Credits |
15:20 |
Refreshment break and networking |
15:50 |
Plenary Session: Vesalius Innovation Award |
16:00 |
Presentations by the 5 shortlisted finalists for the Vesalius Award: Alviss.ai, ImageTwin, Prophy, Sciscore, ScientifyRESEARCH |
16:30 |
A word from our VIA sponsor Jignesh Bhate, Founder & CEO of Molecular Connections |
16:45 |
Award celebration, winners’ reaction |
16:55 |
STM Audience Popularity Vote: results and close of the day |
17:00 |
Reception drinks & networking |
Get to know the start-ups that will be presenting their innovations, creative concepts, and tools designed to improve scholarly communications in bold, meaningful ways.
![]() Alviss.ai offers an automated way for article assessment and selection. It extracts insights, finds reviewers, and generates abstracts. It can also suggest journals for article submission. It uses machine learning (artificial intelligence), to analyze the constant flow of published information and displays it to users in a personalized fashion. Finalist for the Vesalius Innovation award
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Appetence In the transition to Open Access, Persistent Identifiers, high-quality metadata, and interoperability of systems are increasingly important. As a Solution Provider in Publishing, Appetence develops and implements an open-source Tool called the Event Based Metadata Store: connect your publishing workflows. |
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ChronosHub provides a platform for publishers’ workflow, with a focus on optimising the author experience. Your authors will remember how easy it was to select a journal and submit their article, see any charges both pre-submission and post-acceptance, sign their licenses and pay the charges – and they will thank you for it by returning time and time again. |
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Every Author Pub has writing, editing, and publishing training services on offer. It creates meaningful and effective exchanges between authors around the world and English speakers, making academic publishing eligible to any author, any place, any time, anywhere. |
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Sean Coutts, Co-founder & Director of Technology Graphium is a Saas product to generate knowledge graphs to structure collections of research documents, via topics extraction and relevancy scores using ai techniques. This enables researchers to explore and share their knowledge in new and innovative ways whilst also providing analysis of the overall research landscape of an organisation by identifying topic experts and areas of focus. |
Hum.works Hum is a data platform that lets publishers collect and action behavioural data across all their digital properties. Hum’s platform unifies all people data (reader, author, reviewer, editor, librarian, etc), content performance data, and topical affinity data. Using AI, it enables segmentation and hyper-personalization both on- and off-platform, for both anonymous and identified audiences. |
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Imachek presents a scalable solution that will streamline and simplify the image screening process and workflow that can minimize the risks involved with scientific integrity. It focuses on the automated detection of image duplication and image manipulation. |
ImageTwin is the solution to detect manipulations and duplications in figures of scientific articles. By comparing the figures with a database of existing literature, problematic images will be identified within seconds for all relevant image types, including blots, microscopy images, and light photography. |
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Andrew Pitts, CEO of PSI and Co-founder of the IPregistry.org PSI Metrics Using our comprehensive information about institutional identity and the geographical location of readers, PSI is piloting a unique dashboard service to help publishers identify where their ebooks and journals are being used. |
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Proofig provides Automated Image Proofing for scientific publications. It entertains a cutting-edge AI solution for automatic identification of scientific image issues pre and post-publication. Very helpful for filtering out potentially fraudulent images from paper mill papers. |
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Reviewer Credits aims to make the peer review work behind the scenes more visible. With a Reviewer Contributor Index makes peer review more transparent and hence helps safeguard integrity. |
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ScientifyRESEARCH offers a curated and open funding database that will help researchers save significant time in their writing of research proposals and when seeking grants. |
SciFlow makes it easier for researchers to write manuscripts together providing automated formatting according to author guidelines, editing workflows, and integration of reference managers and language services. |
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SciScore is an automated content checker of research publications and manuscripts, to verify common rigor criteria and research resources. It uses text mining techniques to do the job in minutes, providing a report to the editors, reviewers or authors about reproducibility criteria that have and have not been addressed. |
For further details please contact Eefke Smit, Director of Standards and Technology, STM
smit@stm-assoc.org
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