Published: Wednesday 4th March 2020
Since June 2017 Alison has been CEO of PLOS, an organization dedicated to ensuring that research is discoverable, accessible and useable – and to continuing to push the boundaries of “open” in service of a truly equitable system of scientific knowledge and understanding. Prior to PLOS, Alison served as Director of the University of California…
Published: Friday 28th February 2020
Mercè Crosas is the University Research Data Management Officer, with Harvard University Information Technology (HUIT), and Chief Data Science and Technology Officer at Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS). In her role at HUIT, Dr. Crosas provides leadership to mature Harvard’s data management and governance practices. She works in close collaboration with key constituencies in Research,…
Published: Monday 10th February 2020
Coronavirus (Covid-2019) Publisher support for combating COVID-19 STM’s members have acted rapidly and decisively to support the continued global response to the rapid worldwide spread of COVID-19 with immediate access to accurate and validated articles and monographs that the public can trust. In direct response to the health emergency, publishers provided free access to relevant…
Published: Thursday 26th September 2019
Association News STM Board appoints Ian Moss as new CEO STM has announced the appointment of Ian Moss as the organisation’s new Chief Executive Officer. Moss who currently serves as Director of Public Affairs for the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) will take up the position in December 2019. Moss’s selection marks the culmination of…
Published: Wednesday 10th July 2019
Policy and Advocacy Report Europe Member States move to implement the Copyright Directive French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe has confirmed that the implementation decree proposal will be officially presented before end of October 2019, for a first reading in the Assemblée by February 2020, and final adoption before the end of the year 2020. French…
Published: Wednesday 26th June 2019
CEO Column Asian Futures Michael Mabe reports on STM’s first meeting in Asia, set up as part of STM’s 50th Birthday celebrations. I have just returned from a visit to China where I continued our lobbying of key Chinese agencies and contacts and also hosted our very first STM Member meeting in the Asia Pacific…
Published: Wednesday 19th June 2019
Victoria (Torie) Eva serves as Policy Director in the Access and Policy team at Elsevier, responsible for oversight, coordination and development of policy and legislative issues related to Open Science. Victoria covers outreach to key policy contacts, and represents Elsevier’s positioning on Open Science. Prior to her role at Elsevier, Victoria was Global Policy Manager…
Published: Monday 10th June 2019
What the user wants: smarter data, smarter machines, smarter science Thursday, April 30th, 2020 ***Please note: recordings of STM virtual events will only be made available to registered attendees This year’s Innovations Day is completely dedicated to the user. In our data-driven world where artificial intelligence rules, individual users can be served in a personalised…
Published: Wednesday 5th June 2019
STM Innovations Seminar Driven by data – moving open science forward Sharing research data is an important enabler for Open Science. Widely endorsed–and even mandated– by funding bodies and other policy-makers, many disciplines are establishing common conventions on how to make this vision a reality. Through necessity and to aid in reproducibility, publishers…
Published: Wednesday 5th June 2019
Digital Publishing Seminar Tools & Standards Seminar Co Directors: Janine Burr-Willans, Head of Operations, Emerald Publishing Nancy Roberts, Founder, Business Inclusivity Digital Publishing – Efficient, agile, secure and reliable working practices require world-class tooling and standards. As publishers, we live in an ever-evolving landscape of functional and non-functional requirements. Let’s get ahead of the curve by understanding how we work…
Published: Wednesday 29th May 2019
Association News Message from the Chair – STM Strategic Review STM Chair Jason Wilde provides an update on the ongoing strategic review of the Association. Dear colleagues, When I took the role of STM Chair in 2017 I set out my vision for an Association with a refreshed strategy and a revitalised approach. I am…
Published: Wednesday 1st May 2019
Intellectual Property Committee Report EU DSM Copyright Directive: legislative process complete The trilogue text of the Directive was approved without amendment in a plenary vote by EP on 26 March and by the Council on 15 April. The official signature by the Presidents of the Parliament and the Council was on 17 April. The…
Published: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
STM launches Tech Trends 2023 The STM Tech Trends 2023 were launched in Washington DC on April 12, 2019, during the STM Annual US Conference. STM thanks all contributors and especially our generous sponsors IEEE, IMPELSYS and CCC for making possible this new edition. POSTER, made available by IEEE: Download the full infographic here for printing on…
Published: Tuesday 19th March 2019
As the President and CEO of Gigantum, Tyler Whitehouse tempers a research mathematician’s disposition with years of practical, client facing experience as a data science consultant. After a mathematics PhD from the University of Minnesota, he did a postdoctoral stint at Vanderbilt University working with the approximation theory group there. He then spent six years…
Published: Tuesday 12th February 2019
Adrian Stanley, is an independent consultant, prior to this he was General Manager for JMIR Publications, an innovative open-access publisher since 1999, with over 30 digital health and OA medical journals. Adrian also spent 7 years as Managing Director, Publishers, at Digital Science, and 10 years as Charlesworth Group (USA) CEO. Additionally, Adrian is the Chair…
Published: Tuesday 29th January 2019
Intellectual Property Committee Report EU DSM Copyright Directive After an extensive lobbying and advocacy effort over this “once in 20 years” exercise in EU copyright law, the Trilogue (between the Commission, Council, and Parliament) is reaching its final stages. Overall, the text is not too bad for STM, but with one ‘flare point’ remaining…
Published: Tuesday 27th November 2018
Association News Have you visited STM’s 50th Anniversary Site? Discover a wealth of information celebrating 50 years of STM. If you are yet to visit STM’s 50th Anniversary site, it offers a wealth of information celebrating STM’s past and present, as well as some insights into what promises to be an equally exciting future: Watch our anniversary…
Published: Thursday 22nd November 2018
STM US Annual Conference: Innovations Day Friday 12th April 2019 8:30 Registration, coffee & networking 9:00 Welcome IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg, Senior Vice President of Research Integrity, Elsevier, Chair of STM’s Standards and Technology Executive Committee (STEC) and STM’s Future Lab Forum 9:05 Launch of STM Tech Trends 2023 Presented by Eefke Smit, STM Director…
Published: Thursday 22nd November 2018
In my role as a User experience designer for OpenAthens I design experiences for librarians and library patrons. As part of my work, I visit libraries and talk to librarians all around the world, collecting and analysing insight to help the team come up with unique and creative solutions to scholarly content access management problems….
Published: Wednesday 31st October 2018
CEO Column FABULOUS AT FIFTY: STM and the continuing path of Innovation Michael Mabe reflects on STM’s past 50 years and asks what the future holds. On 12 June 1968 a group of scientific publishers met to discuss a new academic publishing division within the International Publishers Association. It soon became clear that…
Published: Friday 17th August 2018
Regular Member ASME helps the global engineering community develop solutions to real world challenges and promotes the art, science, and practice of multidisciplinary engineering and allied sciences around the globe. Founded in 1880 as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME is a not-for-profit professional organization that enables collaboration, knowledge sharing, and skill development across…
Published: Monday 25th June 2018
Copyright and Legal Affairs Report Policy Hopeful push at WIPO SCCR toward broadcasting treaty and action to advancing discussion on exceptions for libraries and for education The last week of May was taken up by the twice-yearly weeklong session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) at WIPO in Geneva, the…
Published: Tuesday 29th May 2018
Copyright and Legal Affairs Report ‘Artificial Intelligence’ the new buzzword in the copyright debate? The advancement of Artificial Intelligence is steadily being inserted into the copyright debate, supplementing calls for exceptions for Text and Data Mining, at a time that policy and legislative proposals are being formulated in the European Union and Japan. At…
Published: Thursday 24th May 2018
Third Launchpad Meetup provides opportunity for startups to pitch ideas to support open data
Published: Wednesday 16th May 2018
From the Cutting Edge Report – Fiesole Retreat, Barcelona, 25-27 April 2018 Anthony Watkinson reports on the 20th Fiesole Retreat – An informal meeting of leading library and information industry participants devoted to thinking through and debating the new world order in collection. Anthony Watkinson (anthony.watkinson@btinternet.com), Principal Consultant CIBER Research and Honorary Lecturer University College London This…
Published: Wednesday 16th May 2018
Launching today, the NC3Rs Gateway is a new publication portal on the F1000Research publication platform dedicated to the 3Rs – replacement, refinement and reduction of animals in research, featuring methodology articles, reviews and source data.
Published: Wednesday 16th May 2018
Springer Nature is helping to uncover research-based solutions to real-world problems, with the launch of its third Change the World, One Article at a Time campaign.
Published: Tuesday 15th May 2018
You can now access detailed information about the peer review process research published on IOPscience has been through. In response to community feedback, we have introduced a new peer review information module for online papers.
Published: Monday 23rd April 2018
Cambridge University Press (the Press), one of the world’s leading University Presses, has partnered with Code Ocean, a platform that enables authors of articles in Press journals to publish and share code associated with their research and readers to view and run that code from within articles.
Published: Monday 23rd April 2018
A new collaboration between Frontiers and the Centre for Citizenship, Enterprise and Governance (CCEG) Think Tank will make cutting-edge research on blockchain technologies freely available through an open-access online platform.
Published: Thursday 19th April 2018
In a cooperation agreement announced today, three publishers and ResearchGate will work together on the sharing of articles on the scholarly collaboration platform in a way that protects the rights of authors and publishers.
Published: Wednesday 11th April 2018
Clarivate Analytics today announced the strategic acquisition of AI-technology startup Kopernio, to create the definitive publisher-neutral platform for research workflow and analysis for scientific researchers, publishers and institutions worldwide.
Published: Wednesday 11th April 2018
Clarivate Analytics today announced the strategic acquisition of AI-technology startup Kopernio, to create the definitive publisher-neutral platform for research workflow and analysis for scientific researchers, publishers and institutions worldwide.
Published: Wednesday 28th February 2018
The European Research Area should be strengthened and broadened as part of the Brexit process, to increase scientific collaboration across member states and associated countries such as the UK, Norway and Switzerland, according to a new report from Wellcome.
Published: Tuesday 27th February 2018
CEO Column 2018 – Year of the Earth Dog As we transition from the Chinese Lunar Year of the Fire Rooster to that of the Earth Dog, Michael Mabe highlights a number of issues that surfaced in 2017 and advises that almost all of them will continue for 2018. I started writing this column at…
Published: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Clarivate Analytics, the global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics to accelerate the pace of innovation, today announced it will re-establish the prestigious Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) to its Scientific and Academic Research Group.
Published: Tuesday 30th January 2018
Association News Join STM’s Early Career Publishers Committee! STM’s Early Career Publishers Committee are currently seeking new members. The committee, comprised of representatives from across STM member companies, are interested in promoting outreach and engagement with entry level and experienced publishers. Committee members will have the opportunity to sit on one of the group’s sub-committees:…
Published: Thursday 25th January 2018
Open Science and the protection of excellence Chaired by IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg, chair of STM Future Lab and STEC PROGRAM 8:30 Light continental breakfast & networking 9:30 Opening Keynote: Professor Dr Paul Wouters, Leiden University Moderated by: IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg (Elsevier), chair STM’s Future Lab and STEC New Research Indicators and their meaning for Open…
Published: Wednesday 20th December 2017
SciGraph, the Linked Open Data (LOD) platform launched by Springer Nature in March 2017, now holds over one billion metadata statements about content published by Springer Nature and links to established external datasets.
Published: Tuesday 28th November 2017
BLOCKCHAIN BLOCKCHAIN at APE: At this year’s APE conference, STM organised a special panel session on Blockchain. It included Dr Joris van Rossum, the author of the recent Blcokchain report by Digital Science, Soenke Bartling, founder of the Blockchain ThinkTank, Lambert Heller, librarian at TIB Hannover, Eveline Klumpers, founder of Katalysis a blockchain start-up. Presentations…
Published: Tuesday 10th October 2017
Research4Life is a public-private partnership between WHO, FAO, UNEP, WIPO, ILO, Cornell and Yale Universities, STM and up to 200 individual publisher partners. Its goal is to reduce the scientific knowledge gap for low and middle-income countries by providing researchers in eligible institutions with free or low-cost access to academic and professional peer-reviewed research journals, books…
Published: Tuesday 10th October 2017
ARDI http://www.wipo.int/ardi/en/ ARDI was launched in 2009, an STM partnership with WIPO (UN World Intellectual Property Organization) to provide free or very low cost access to a range of core research technical journals and books to patent offices, higher education, and other not-for-profit institutions in more than 115 developing countries, where encouraging local innovation is…
Published: Saturday 31st December 2016
Standards & Technology Various Topics STEC and STM’s Future Lab have the following topics on their agenda: COUNTER COUNTER has started the consultation rounds on its latest proposed Code of Practice, Release 5 (COP5) and welcomes feedback from all stakeholders between now and summer 2017. From a publisher’s standpoint, the currently proposed COP5 risks to…
Published: Friday 11th November 2016
With more than 25 years of experience in product and platform development in scholarly communications, Chris helps industry groups formulate product and technology strategy in a time of rapidly changing business models, new technology, and increasing expectations from users and customers. Chris has played a significant role in many collaborative infrastructure projects and is a…
Published: Monday 24th October 2016
Copyright and Legal Affairs Report Policy IPA and IFLA issue joint pledge for universal access to information In a joint statement issued on 28 September 2016, the first UNESCO International Day for Universal Access to Information, the International Publishers Association (IPA) and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) committed themselves to find…
Published: Friday 16th September 2016
Now available: SCHOLIX SCHOLIX is now available: Easy framework to link publications to research data STM is proud to present to STM members the new SCHOLIX framework for the linking of research data and publications: What is SCHOLIX? Launched this summer, SCHOLIX provides an easy and universal linking mechanism between scholarly publications and research data….
Published: Saturday 3rd September 2016
Membership News STM 2016 Board Elections Eligible voters – please cast your vote for the STM Board Elections. Eligible voters – please cast your vote for the STM Board Elections. Voting will end on 14 September 2016 at 12 midnight (Pacific Daylight Time). Any questions, please get in touch with Kim Beadle. STM welcomes new members We…
Published: Friday 10th June 2016
Regular Member The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science as well as Science Translational Medicine, Science Signaling, a digital, open-access journal, Science Advances, and beginning in 2016, two new journals—Science Robotics and Science Immunology. AAAS was founded in 1848 and includes some 250 affiliated societies and…
Published: Thursday 9th June 2016
Regular Member Radcliffe Group is an independent publisher and digital producer for the global cardiovascular community, equipping clinicians with the tools, skills and practical insights they need to do the best for their patients. UK-based Radcliffe Group delivers scientific rigour with communications expertise and technical mastery, making knowledge-sharing as effortless and effective as possible through…
Published: Wednesday 8th June 2016
Associate Member CHORUS advances sustainable public access to content reporting on funded research. A non-profit membership organization, CHORUS provides services, open APIs, best practices, and partnerships that support publishers, funders, and academic institutions by: Directing users to the best available versions of peer-reviewed articles, on official publication sites Monitoring and auditing each content record for public-access status,…