Publisher members of STM may apply to become signatories of STM may become signatories to the STM Permissions Guidelines, which provide a streamlined procedure for permissions between signatories to use extracts from copyright works.  The majority of the STM Signatories partner with the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) to implement RightsLink®, an automated permissions solution on their websites directly from the point of content.

For avoidance of doubt, not eligible for clearance under these STM Permissions Guidelines are re-publication requests in relation to primary publication materials in secondary or tertiary publications where less than 70% of the total secondary or tertiary publications consist of original material and, thus, 30% or more of materials may be non-primary or originated by third parties.

The STM Permissions Group comprises the Rights, Permissions and Licensing Managers representing the permissions departments of many STM publishers which are signatories to the Permissions Guidelines, to promote a common understanding of the terms of the Guidelines.  The Permissions Group can help with the training, even induction, of new permissions officers of Signatories to the Guidelines, in relation to the use of the Guidelines.

• Kathy Amrose, SAE International
  Matthew Bailey, Royal Society of Chemistry
  Bonnie Beacher, McGraw-Hill Professional
  Rob Bennett, Journal of Orthopedic Sport & Physical Therapy (JOSPT)
  Erika Brunner, Karger
  Erin Buck, American Mathematical Society
  Gill Cockhead, Royal Society of Chemistry
  Kelly Cohen, Optica Publishing Group
  Sara Coles, Johnson Matthey Technology Review
  Rebecca Cook, John Wiley & Sons
  Apostolos Damialis, EMS Press
  Paulette Dooler, Taylor & Francis (including Informa)
  Barbara Elias, Thieme Publishing Group
  Louise Eyre, Oxford University Press
  Nicola Haden, Royal Society of Chemistry
  Julie Halfacre, BMJ
  Suzanne Inge, AIP Publishing
  Lijun Jin, OAE Publishing Inc.
  Ben Kennedy, Oxford University Press
  Simon Laurenson, Bioscientifica
  Yingfang Liu, Tsinghua University Press
  Shou Hwa Liu, Portland Press
  Ian Mellor, British Small Animal Veterinary Association (BSAVA)
  Kathrin Muellenbach, DeGruyter
  Rachel Norton, McGraw-Hill Professional
  Wendy Patterson, Beilstein-Institut
  Susan Philcox, CABI
  Natalie Qureshi, Elsevier
  Thomas Ramsden, Wolters Kluwer Health
  Elisabeth Riley, Johnson Matthey Technology Review
  Barbara Ryan, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  Katie Scarff, Cambridge University Press
  Megan Schindel, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
  Sebastian Schmitt, DeGruyter
  Heike Schwabenthan, Thieme Publishing Group
  Silvia Serra, Springer Nature (Chair)
  Tushar Shakya, Canadian Science Publishing
  Eric Slater, American Chemical Society
  Tim Spanner, Taylor & Francis (including Informa)
  Angelina Storti, Springer Nature
  Kassie Stovell, American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN)
  Meredith Taylor, Sinauer (an imprint of Oxford University Press)
  Mai Tian, Open Exploration Publishing
  Elizabeth Trammell, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
  Keri Travis, American Chemical Society
  Kruna Vukmirovic, The Institution of Engineering and Technology (The IET)
  Ruochen Xian, Tech Science Press
  Sally Wilson, Emerald Publishing
  Cameron Wood, IOP Publishing
  Antoinette Wrighton, Endocrine Society
  Molly Stech, STM