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Following the announcement that the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC) would build up a World Science Citation Database, On 30 April, ISTIC sent a ‘Notice on Soliciting Opinions’ (draft for comments) on this new evaluation system. Many STM members submitted feedback to ISTIC by the deadline of 10 May.

A new GAO report examining the impact of the Nelson memo on federal spending on scholarly publishing underscores both the essential role of publishers and increasing policymaker attention to publication costs and transparency. STM and many of our members were interviewed in 2024 and 2025 for the report. The report recognises that publishers provide critical functions — including peer review, quality…

An international coalition of rightsholders sent letters to relevant policy-makers in Thailand and South Korea to counter the TDM exceptions proposed in these countries. STM will participate in an EU-Korea roundtable on copyright on 16 June to reiterate the same points and address the industry’s perspective on right reservation and AI licensing.

The EU Commission has opened the process that may lead to a targeted copyright intervention. In parallel to the evaluation of the Copyright Directive, they’re also collecting stakeholders’ views on potential interventions on, among other things, transparency and remuneration for AI uses, EU-level secondary publication right and interventions on the research exception. The deadline for submissions is 25…

Last month, the Australian Publishers Association co-hosted the Australia–China Scholarly & Journals Publishing Roundtable in Melbourne, in partnership with the Society of China University Journals (CUJS) and supported by STM. The roundtable brought together colleagues from across Australia and China’s scholarly publishing sectors for a productive morning of discussion on research integrity, translation, the implications…

The latest in the STM/NISTEP Lecture Series brings together three senior publishing professionals to discuss how publishing workflows safeguard research integrity — covering peer review management, editorial decision-making, plagiarism and data checks, author identification, and compliance with ethical and funder requirements. Speakers: Mike Streeter (Wiley), Angela Hunter (ACS), and Mike Nobel (Wolters Kluwer Health). Moderated…

STM’s Claudia Russo and CLOCKSS’ Alicia Wise will discuss the widening gap between publication and long-term preservation. Register here.

The EU COM is in the process of evaluating whether the Directive for Copyright in the Digital Single Market, adopted in 2019, has been properly implemented and has achieved its objectives. Stakeholder feedback is being collected until 5 June here.

The report, published on 30 April, acknowledges that Europe has achieved higher-than-average OA rates, that no statistically significant effect can be attributed to SPR, and that Gold Open Access (OA) and Transformative Agreements have been the underlying drivers of OA growth in Europe (in line with what our data also shows). Yet it puts forward…

After the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) pulled a report supporting the COVID-19 vaccine from its flagship Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), questions are being raised about whether the publication will continue. The Washington Post reported (9 April) that NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, who is also acting Director of the CDC, had delayed publication of a…