across publishers by allowing individuals and organizations from across the publishing ecosystem to come together. The first of its kind, the STM Integrity Hub is built from ground up to foster cross-disciplinary collaboration through legally compliant: 

• Knowledge and idea exchange
• Development of voluntary policies, guidelines and frameworks
• Cooperative innovation
• Secure, safeguarded content submissions

by detecting manuscripts found to violate accepted research integrity standards, serving as an ‘early warning system’ for integrity issues by analyzing manuscripts for submitted publication to participating scholarly journals, through:

• Technology and screening infrastructure
• Secure, protected environment that protects data privacy and is consistent with competition laws
• Policies & frameworks
• A modular platform to safeguard research integrity for all

to easily come together for the sole purpose of protecting the scientific record. The STM Integrity Hub is an accessible and secure means to identify manuscripts that violate accepted research integrity standards before getting further into the publication cycle and ecosystem — legally, adequately and efficiently.

• Saved time and resources 
• Easy access to sharable information, data and tools
• Helpful resources to get started
• Collaboration between publishers of all sorts, shapes and sizes 
• A means to influence change — protect the scholarly record, for all.

to new threats through a flexible, innovative system architecture — a hub — that integrates with a wide range of specific and individually chosen screening tools. This supports versatility and adaptability to respond as new threats arise. This is accomplished through:

• Flexible system architecture
• Ease of integration with other systems & tools
• A scalable, versatile framework