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Nominations for STM Board seats are now open!

Through 3 August, employees of STM member organisations can nominate themselves or another employee of an STM member organisation. We seek board candidates from member organisations of all sizes — individuals who will contribute diverse viewpoints and share our common goals of advancing trusted science and ushering in a more equitable, inclusive realm of research….

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New Draft EU Council Conclusions ratified — STM responds

Today, the Council Conclusions on high-quality, transparent, open, trustworthy, and equitable scholarly publishing were adopted by EU Ministers at the COMPET Council. STM calls on the European Commission and EU Member States to consult with scholarly publishers of all sizes, disciplines and models and seek a constructive collaboration that will allow the publishing industry to…

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Perspectives on Data sharing in the Humanities: Don Shelton

Don Shelton is an independent researcher in the humanities, based in New Zealand. While his research has been published in traditional formats including academic journals, his main focus is on publishing extensive blogposts, annotations, field notes and images on his research-focused website. His reasons for doing so align with the commonly cited benefits of research…

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New STM Committee Chairs & Board Sponsors

As we transition to delivering on our new STM strategy, we are pleased to announce the following Committee Chairs and Board Sponsors: Open Research, Vicky Gardner, Taylor & Francis; with board sponsor Steven Inchcoombe, SpringerNature. Research Integrity, Chris Graf, SpringerNature; with board sponsor Liz Fergusen, Wiley. Social Responsibility, Rachel Martin, Elsevier; with board sponsor Vikram…

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STM Solutions releases MVP of new paper mill detection tool

Today, STM Solutions, the operational arm of STM, announced the release of the MVP (minimal viable product) of a paper mill detection tool as part of the STM Integrity Hub. It is a stand-alone web application where submitted journal manuscripts can be uploaded and checked for a variety of signals indicative of paper mills.  At…

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The next step for the STM Integrity Hub

Today marks the launch of the first iteration of the STM Integrity hub’s papermill detection tool, one of a number of initiatives that publishers are developing to ensure the integrity of the publication record.  Read the full article at Springer Nature.

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Detection tool developed to fight flood of fake academic papers

Read the full article at Financial Times,

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New white paper to report on current and potential future ecosystem of scholarly communications infrastructure

STM Solutions has provided sponsorship to enable Ithaka S+R, a not-for-profit higher education research and consulting organization, to research and produce a white paper that examines the shared and essential scholarly communications infrastructure. Work on the paper is to begin immediately. A draft will be made available for public comment prior to the final publication…

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STM Solutions in search of a Product Manager of ‘Access & Identity Solutions’

Update: This position has been filled. ___ STM Solutions is looking for an experienced Product Manager to lead the development and implementation of cross-industry solutions that improve the access experience for researchers and that support new modalities for how scholarly content can be discovered and delivered.   The Product Manager will lead the further development of…

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What a survey of humanities researchers told us about data sharing

  Authored by Rebecca Grant, Co-Chair, STM Humanities Research Project ____ Humanities data sharing has lagged behind data sharing in other disciplines (for example life sciences, or social sciences), perhaps for good reason – what exactly is “data” for a historian? How can a physical artefact be shared in a data repository? At the same…

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UPCOMING EVENTS

STM Regional APAC Seminar

27th August 2026

Professor Ginny Barbour, Co-Chair, DORA Professor Barbour has been and continues to be involved in many aspects of the research publishing ecosystem as described in below. We have particularly invited her to brief and update us on developments at DORA (The Declaration of Research Assessment) as the current Co-Chair, and on her advisory involvement in...
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STM Dinner & Conference 2026 | Frankfurt

5th to 6th October 2026

Operationalising Trust Knowledge Infrastructure · Responsible AI Trust in research can no longer be assumed. It must now be designed, governed, and demonstrated across borders, technologies, and institutions—particularly as national research policies diverge, AI reshapes scholarly workflows, and global research production accelerates. This year’s STM Dinner and Conference in Frankfurt asks a practical question: how...
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