Research data plays an essential role in advancing scholarship. How can we ensure that it is Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR)? How can we maintain the integrity of research through sharing research data across scholarly communications? Through collaboration, innovation and shared policies and practices.

Publishers play an integral role in ensuring the accessibility and reproducibility of research data through sharing, linking and citing to data alongside publications — and determining the role of research data in the broader research ecosystem.

This is where the STM Research Data Program comes in. 

Governed by a steering committee consisting of representatives of publishers and other key organizations in Open Science, the STM Research Data Program exists to boost effective sharing of research data. We do that by:

• Sharing best practices and creating resources, policies and shared processes to empower publishers to accelerate research data implementations.
• Organizing learning events (e.g. workshops, webinars), allowing publishers to exchange experiences, tips and lessons learned 
• Leveraging evidence-led, community-driven outputs to increase access to research data  
• Actively participating in discussions on the role of research data in the wider scholarly ecosystem

IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg (Elsevier), Maria Hodges (SpringerNature), Matthew Cannon (T&F), David Mellor (Centre for Open Science), Iain Hrynaszkiewicz (PLOS), Elizabeth Phimister (NEJM) , Shelley Stall (AGU), Rose Sokol-Chang (APA), Eefke Smit (STM), Hilary Hanahoe (RDA), Rachael Lammey (Crossref), Helena Cousijn (DataCite)