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[Cross-posted from NISO.org, July 2023] Peer review is the process of evaluating academic, scientific, or professional work. It is ubiquitously used by academic journals to support research integrity by filtering out invalid or poor-quality articles, as well as to ensure that research outcomes are exposed to relevant audiences through their publication in relevant journals. As…

Leila Jones joins STM today as Director of Strategic Programmes. In this newly created role, Leila will facilitate the delivery of STM’s strategy by overseeing, coordinating, and tracking projects and initiatives across STM’s core strategic pillars. Leila will be collaborating with the STM Board, committee members, and STM staff across functions, as well as external…

A challenge we face at Research4Life (R4L) is how to more deeply enable access to research across lower income countries to ensure greater participation in the global research community: from access, to publishing, and knowledge exchange. R4L enables 11,000 institutions in 125 countries from Albania to Zimbabwe to have free (or close to free) access…

STM has released the first part of a new SDG Roadmap to guide publishers large and small in implementing the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and supporting sustainability more broadly. This dedicated toolkit of resources for scholarly publishers takes the potentially overwhelming framework of the SDGs and breaks it down into concrete steps. The roadmap…

In accordance with STM’s mission to advance credible and accessible research, STM has joined a coalition of US federal agencies, organizations, and universities in supporting the Year of Open Science and NASA’s Transform to Open Science initiative.  As a part of the coalition, STM and other member organizations commit to transforming the culture of science…

Where in the world is Caroline? This June, Caroline Sutton, STM’s CEO, journeyed to China for two conferences, meetings and discussions around the ways we can best advance trusted research around the globe. Here, she lends a quick summary from the (windy!) Great Wall.    After a three-year pause due to the pandemic, the Beijing…

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….

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…