Enforcement Task Force

STM publishers started the Enforcement Task Force (‘ETF’) as an informal group in 2004. The ETF was established in 2007 as a self-funding committee of the STM Copyright and Legal Affairs Committee to support it in selected cases of copyright enforcement.

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Protecting Progress: The Case for Staying Committed to Sustainability in 2025

The framework of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has, over the past decade, generated a tremendous amount of global cooperation, innovation, and support to drive transformative change within our communities. This might be attributed to the global nature of the challenges, as the SDG framework sets out to address universal issues from climate change and renewable energy to protecting our oceans and ensuring good health and well-being in our communities. While the publishing industry has been very supportive of the SDG agenda (with the launch of the SDG Publishers Compact and IPA SDG Dashboard), it can be hard to relate the specific SDG targets and measurements to what we, as academic publishers, can truly influence. Read the full article in The Scholarly ...
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A United Call to Protect the Future of Research

STM has joined the Association of College and Research Libraries, the Association of Research Libraries, the Association of University Presses, and the Society for Scholarly Publishing in a unified call to safeguard the future of research. Published in The Scholarly Kitchen, our joint op-ed responds to escalating uncertainty in the United States, including sweeping federal...
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New Resources on Best Practices for Guest-Edited Collections

Guest-edited collections, often published as special issues or themed volumes, curated by experts in a specific field, play an important role in scholarly publishing offering a focused exploration of contemporary topics, emerging trends, or specialised areas of study. However, guest-edited collections have been accompanied by increasing challenges, including coordinated attempts to manipulate the publishing record...
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