Events Includes industry events, STM upcoming & previous seminars, conferences, training and education courses Document
Library This central library enables you to find the any document published by STM, quickly and easily Copyright
& Legal Affairs STM actively engages with stakeholders on copyright and legal issues and advocates on public policies Standards &
Technology STM monitors new techology trends and their impact on the publishing industry Public
Affairs STM provides advice on government relations, strategy and policy commmunications issues Research4Life
Outreach Programmes Including HINARI, AGORA, OARE access programmes, bringing content to developing countries and the public

About STM

STM is a broad and welcoming organisation which includes large and small companies, not for profit organisations and learned societies, traditional primary and secondary publishers and new players. Members have the opportunity to participate in a body central to the well being of our industry.

 

The mission of STM is to create a platform for exchanging ideas and information and to represent the interest of the STM publishing community in the fields of copyright, technology developments, and end user / library relations.

 

STM Aims and Objectives

  • to assist publishers and their authors in their activities in disseminating the results of research in the fields of science, technology and medicine;
  • to assist national and international organisations and communications industries in the electronic environment, who are concerned with improving the dissemination, storage and retrieval of scientific, technical and medical information;
  • to carry out the foregoing work of the Association in conjunction with the International Publishers Association (IPA) and with the national publishers associations and such other governmental and professional bodies, international and national, who may be concerned with these tasks.

STM participates in the development of information identification protocols and electronic copyright management systems. STM members are kept fully up to date (via newsletters, the STM website, and e-mail) about the issues which will ultimately affect their business. STM organises seminars,training courses, and conferences. Its General Assembly is held annually, one day preceding the Frankfurt Book Fair.

 

 

About the Industry

Overview of STM

You can view The STM Report by clicking on the document below.

 

 

 

You can also download the Scientific Publishing in Transition White Paper.

 

Also available are the preliminary findings of the Sense About Science Peer Review Survey 2009.

 


Industry Statistics - As highlighted in the July 2009 STM News

Reproduced from "Social Media in STM Part 2: Social Publishing - Usage and Abusage"

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