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In June’s quarterly STM Members Town Hall, we introduced you to three of the four strategic committees that will drive our work forward: Social Responsibility, Research Integrity and Standards & Technology. Here, we learned about the over-arching objectives for each committee — and opportunities for involvement via labs, forums, task & finish groups and more….

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….

The second agency-wide public access plan for implementing the August 2022 OSTP memo on public access was released on 18 May by NASA, following the release in February of NIH’s plan. NASA has asked for public comment on their plan by 17 August. Questions in the NASA RFI are similar to the NIH RFI, with…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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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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…