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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…
“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 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 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…