Standards & Technology

Collective innovation and standardization to advance open, trusted research.

Standards & Technology are central to all that STM does. Our work here convenes STM members of all shapes and sizes to pool ideas, resources, experience, and innovations to advance open, trusted research — together. This is how STM accelerates positive change.

The way we see it

Collectively, we identify issues that affect us and the research communities that we serve today, and forecast problems that potentially lie ahead. We brainstorm solutions and develop ideas into standards or technology concepts.  We build prototypes, run pilots, and work with partners — particularly with STM Solutions — where appropriate. We organize learning events, track critical standards and technology developments in the wider publishing industry, provide input for standardization efforts and consultations, track the publishing participation in various standards bodies and alert members and the STM Board on important developments. We zero in on topics that are at the heart of STM’s strategy including topics in Research Integrity, Open Research, and Social Responsibility – for example solutions to increase the visibility and consistency of retraction information, standard mechanisms to express rights reserved and license information for text & data mining purposes, and guidance for authors to declare the use of AI in a consistent and clear manner.  

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Meet the committee

STM’s Standards & Technology efforts are guided by the Standard & Technology Committee (STeC) that works to guide the priorities, create task & finish groups to carry out specific projects, and lend expertise and services to all committees across the association.

  • Rachel Bock, Wiley (Chair)
  • Stacey Burke, American Physiological Society
  • Scott Dineen, Optica Publishing Group
  • Nisha Doshi, Cambridge UP
  • Samantha Green, Silverchair
  • Andrew Kelly, Taylor & Francis
  • Anna Rabitti, Frontiers
  • Joshua Routh, Highwire
  • Henning Schoenenberger, Springer Nature
  • Adam Sewell, IOP Publishing (Co-chair)
  • Brian Sieger, IEEE
  • Myles Slater, Emerald Publishing
  • Andrew Smeall, Sage Publications
  • Heather Staines, DeltaThink
  • Mark Wilmshurst, Elsevier
  • Aaron Wood, American Psychological Association
  • Dan O’Brien, American Chemical Society

Core Initiatives

Responsible use of research content in GenAI tools

STM has established a Task & Finish Group to investigate how to establish and advocate for responsible use of research content in GenAI tools. The Task & Finish Group for “Responsible use of research content in GenAI tools” will open the conversation on how scholarly values and standards could be respected when using research content in and by GenAI systems and applications. 

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Content-update Signaling and Alerting Protocol

CUSAP enhances transparency and integrity in scholarly records, notifying platforms of updates to published works for responsible dissemination.

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Researcher Identity

Examining publisher methods for verifying identities of authors, reviewers, and editors to strengthen research integrity through a unified framework.

 

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Article 4 Implementation

Task & Finish Group (TFG) on implementation of Article 4 of the 2019 EU Directive for Copyright in the Digital Single Market (DSM).

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The STM Future Lab

The Standards & Technology Future Lab is a platform for a wider STM Community to share input and insights to help us advance trusted research. Our Lab is composed of a diverse membership of inspired individuals, appointed by their own organisations, who are eager to help envision future strategies to drive our mission forward.

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Alt-Text Accessibility

The Alt-Text Accessibility Task & Finish Group (TFG) aims to deliver best-practice recommendations for the creation of alt-texts for scholarly images, to help to enable publishers to in making their content accessible to users with disabilities, and in meeting the W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Level AA standards.

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The Latest from STM

2026 Innovators showcase technologies tackling scholarly publishing’s most pressing challenges

*AI *Announcements *Events *Standards and Technology 10/27/26

STM has announced the 20 innovators selected to participate in the Innovator Fair at STM Innovation & Integrity Days 2026, taking place in London on 8 December. Chosen from more than 40 submissions, this year’s cohort reflects the pace of innovation across scholarly publishing, with new approaches to research integrity, peer review, provenance, identity verification,…

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STM and Ithaka S+R launch research project on the interface between scholarly content and AI

*AI *Announcements *Global *Standards and Technology 10/06/26

“The Endpoint Question” will examine how scholarly content should meet AI agents at the point of access As AI-powered research assistants and agentic systems become an increasingly important route to scholarly content, STM and Ithaka S+R today announced a new independent study, and invite publishers’ technical teams, platform providers, AI developers and open repositories to…

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Two calls open for STM’s Innovation & Integrity Days 2026

*Announcements *Research Integrity *Standards and Technology 09/03/26

STM has opened two calls for contributions to Innovation & Integrity Days 2026, taking place on 8–9 December at BMA House, London. The two-day event explores the breakthroughs transforming scholarly communication, and looks closely at the latest trends, approaches and innovations in research integrity. It brings together publishers, innovators, researchers, sleuths, funders and allied organisations….

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Crossref launches new data citation API endpoint in beta

*Announcements *Standards and Technology 07/31/26

STM has long championed data citation and the sharing of research data underlying articles and monographs — work that sits at the heart of transparent, reproducible science. So it’s welcome news that Crossref has expanded its support in this area with a new dedicated data citation API endpoint, now available in beta. It contains over…

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