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STM has published its Event Chair and Session Organiser Guidelines, a practical framework to help those planning and chairing STM events build more inclusive, accessible, and representative programmes from the outset. Developed by STM’s D&I Task & Finish Group, the guidelines cover the full arc of event planning — from assembling diverse planning committees and…

Ralph Youngen, who spent 27 years at the American Chemical Society, retired last month. STM would like to take this opportunity to thank Ralph for his exceptional contributions to the scholarly publishing community—and to STeC in particular.  Ralph has been a steady, vital force in scholarly infrastructure. As co-founder and chair of GetFTR, and as STeC chair, he brought the same qualities to…

A new microsite from STM’s Equity in Open Research Task & Finish Group sets out voluntary best practice guidelines, case studies, and emerging data to advance equity across the open research lifecycle – through transparency, accessibility, collaboration, and accountability. STM’s Equity Statement and OA Equity Statement set out publishers’ commitment to inclusive, accessible research –…

STM has today published STM Trends 2030: A Voyage Into The Unknown: Navigating Shifts, Propelling Discovery — its annual horizon-scan of the forces shaping scholarly communications. Developed each year by senior members of STM’s STEC Committee (link) and Future Lab — a discussion forum drawing on innovation, technology, and strategy expertise from across the membership…

STM is pleased to welcome two new colleagues who joined the team in spring 2026. Georgiana Svensmark-Baciu joins as Senior Manager, Public Affairs EU, based in Brussels. She brings a strong background in publishing, open science, and strategic communications, most recently at Elsevier where she led the global launch of AI products for researchers and coordinated…

On March 30, 2026, the Association of American Publishers (AAP), News/Media Alliance (N/MA), International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM), and Authors Guild (AG) filed an amicus brief supporting the plaintiffs in Concord Music Group v. Anthropic. This case was brought in October 2023 by several music publishers alleging that Anthropic unlawfully used…

STM has published “Toward Responsible Use of Research Content in Generative AI,” a discussion document putting forward considerations for the responsible use of research content in generative AI tools, and inviting the broader research and GenAI development community to engage. The document focuses on what makes research content and research communication distinct from other types…

“The STM Association Alt Text Task & Finish Group (TFG) is excited to share its draft image-type taxonomy for scholarly images for comment and feedback. This taxonomy is a collaborative effort by members of the STM Association to develop a comprehensive classification system for images in scholarly publishing. In part, it is intended to assist authors…

Transparency about the use of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) in research articles and other scholarly outputs is an important aspect of research integrity. At present, practices for  how  to disclose AI use vary widely across disciplines, regions, and publication cultures.  To address this issue, STM has released a report “Recommendations for a Classification of AI…

The STM Alt Text Task & Finish Group (TFG) has released a draft image-type taxonomy for scholarly images. This draft is the result of a collaborative effort by STM members to support accessible publishing, with a focus on helping authors and publishers write better image descriptions (alt text). Not only does it help prepare for…