Published: Tuesday 7th July 2015
Membership News STM Board Elections 2015: Nominations now open! The Nomination process is now open for the STM 2015 Board Elections – see the STM website for further details. The Nomination process is now open for the STM 2015 Board Elections. Speak with your head of house about who is eligible to run for your…
Published: Monday 6th July 2015
Roger C. Schonfeld is the vice president of organizational strategy for ITHAKA and of Ithaka S+R’s libraries, scholarly communication, and museums program Roger and the team of Ithaka S+R’s methodological and subject matter experts that comprise the program conduct research and provide advisory services to drive evidence-based innovation and leadership to foster research, learning, and…
Published: Monday 6th April 2015
The STM Report – 2015 Fourth Edition of The STM Report published The fourth edition of The STM Report, providing ‘an overview of scientific and scholarly journal publishing’ is now available for download from the STM website. The report, authored by Mark Ware (Mark Ware Consulting) and Michael Mabe, CEO of STM, identifies trends…
Published: Wednesday 19th November 2014
Frederick Fenter is the Chief Executive Editor of Frontiers, the open-access publisher based in Lausanne Switzerland. He studied chemistry (Ph.D. Harvard, 1990) and conducted research in atmospheric science for a number of years before moving into scientific publishing with an appointment as manager of the Inorganic Chemistry Program at Elsevier Science, Lausanne (1997). Since then, he has…
Published: Sunday 7th September 2014
In our efforts for Open Science, STM coordinates and supports an active program on Standards and Technology. The projects in this area focus on best practices for Research Data, tools that help check Research Integrity, terminology to foster Transparent Peer Review, standards for Single Sign-on Protocols to achieve Seamless Access, and defining principles for AI…
Published: Thursday 7th August 2014
About STM STM is the standard bearer for the academic publishing industry, working with its members to advance trusted research worldwide. We are committed to ensuring that the great discoveries of our time are communicated with pinpoint accuracy, clarity and integrity. We champion innovation across academic research, stimulating the development of new technologies and guidance…
Published: Thursday 3rd April 2014
Membership News STM’s New Member CHORUS STM welcomes a new member. Conceived by publishers, the Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States (CHORUS) is a not-for-profit public-private partnership to increase public access to peer-reviewed publications that report on federally funded research. Find out more about CHORUS at: http://chorusaccess.org/2014/01/09/what-is-chorus Thank you again for your…
Published: Tuesday 1st April 2014
Sarah Tegen, Ph.D., is Senior Vice President and Chief Publishing Officer, ACS Publications, at the American Chemical Society. She leads the development of ACS’s pre-eminent portfolio of eighty hybrid and open-access journals, oversees the award-winning news magazine Chemical & Engineering News, manages the development of the ACS books program, and heads strategic planning and relationship…
Published: Monday 10th March 2014
Membership News STM’s New Members STM welcomes two new members. RFC Editor Sample of Science Meeting with STM Members: Membercare 2014 2014 is the year STM launches its Member Care initiative. We want to hear what you care about from your membership and to provide and update you and your colleagues with information about…
Published: Friday 22nd November 2013
Thomas Lemberger is editor of Molecular Systems Biology, an open-access online journal published by Nature Publishing Group and the European Molecular Biology Organisation. Molecular Systems Biology covers the fields of systems biology, systems medicine and synthetic biology. Thomas earned his PhD at the University of Lausanne, where he studied hormonal regulation of gene expression by…
Published: Monday 11th November 2013
Membership News New Member STM welcomes The Association of Medical Illustrators (AMI) STM welcomes new member, The Association of Medical Illustrators (AMI) who are also the publishers of The Journal of Biocommunication. Membership Renewals – 2014 “Together we are Strong” 123 global members strong We will be sending 2014 membership renewal notices the week…
Published: Monday 7th October 2013
Membership News STM 2013 Board Election Voting for 5 Board members ended on Friday, September 13. All candidates were informed of their status on September 18. Four current Board members were re-elected: Brian Crawford, ACS, Undesignated Steven Hall, IOPP, Undesignated YS Chi, Elsevier, Large Andrea Powell, CABI, Not for Profit and one new “Undesignated”…
Published: Monday 26th November 2012
Stephen Boyer is a researcher in the interdisciplinary space of chemistry and computer science. At IBM Research he pioneered the use of computers to automatically curate scientific literature and patents, expanding for the scientific community their understanding and utility of published information in medicine, the physical sciences and intellectual property. Dr. Boyer’s early work as…
Published: Monday 26th November 2012
Mike Taylor is Head of Metrics Development at Digital Science, previously he was in Elsevier Labs, and Elsevier’s Metrics and Analytics group. At Digital Science, he’s responsible for developing metrics and integrating them across the portfolio companies. Mike regularly blogs and presents on a diverse range of subjects, including reproducibility and the political context of…
Published: Tuesday 20th March 2012
Dr. Alicia Wise is an independent consultant at Information Power where she focuses on helping organisations thrive as they transition to more open business models and cultures. She has been active in the information industry for 20 years as an academic as well as in roles with funders, libraries, consortia, publishers, and universities. She has…
Published: Tuesday 6th December 2011
Integration of Data and Publications The Data Publications Pyramid illustrates the most common ways to make data accessible. Research data comes in many different manifestation forms. Publications have always contained data, usually in a very condensed, processed and summarised way via graphs, tables and illustrations. At the other end of the spectrum is raw data…
Published: Thursday 27th October 2011
October 25, 2011. At the Digital Library of America plenary meeting on October 21, Europeana program director Jill Cousins announced that Europeana and DPLA have reached a mutual agreement to work toward interoperability, and thus potentially expand content access for users of both projects. In her announcement, she stressed the importance of openness—specifically, open data…
Published: Thursday 21st April 2011
Frederick Dylla is Executive Director Emeritus of the American Institute of Physics (AIP), having served as Executive Director & CEO from 2007-2015. AIP is a not-for-profit organization of 10 scientific societies in the physical sciences that provides an array of information-based resources. AIP delivers scholarly journals through its subsidiary, AIP Publishing LLC, for which Dylla…
Published: Wednesday 20th April 2011
Laura Brown is the Executive Vice President of Strategy and Research for ITHAKA, and Managing Director of Ithaka S+R. Ithaka S+R supports innovation by working with universities, libraries, professional societies, museums and archives, and scholarly initiatives to develop sustainable business models, and by conducting research and analysis on the impact of digital media on the…
Published: Wednesday 20th April 2011
Tracey Brown OBE is the director of Sense about Science, where she has turned the case for sound science and evidence into popular campaigns, including AllTrials, a global campaign for the reporting of all clinical trial outcomes. Tracey leads Sense about Science’s work on transparency of decisions, to ensure the public has access to…
Published: Tuesday 12th April 2011
Permissions Guidelines Download the 2022 version of the Permission Guidelines (2022 version: PDF, XML, HTML) In order to participate and become a signatory to the Guidelines, the publisher must be a member of STM. Please visit the Members section for information on how to join the Association. If you are interested in participating in the…
Published: Tuesday 12th April 2011
Code of Conduct Companies applying for membership of STM are required to make a formal written application using the forms provided on the Association website. All applications are reviewed by the STM Board to ensure that applicants adhere to the high professional standards of STM members. The STM Board has sole discretion over the admission of members….