STM Publishing News

STM has joined the Association of College and Research Libraries, the Association of Research Libraries, the Association of University Presses, and the Society for Scholarly Publishing in a unified call to safeguard the future of research.

LIBER is launching a dedicated taskforce to investigate Artificial Intelligence (AI) developments across the research library field, strengthen its strategic approach to AI-related matters, and provide hands-on guidance for librarians to take on the leading role in AI literacy.

67 Bricks and Bone & Joint have been shortlisted for this year’s ALPSP Innovation Award in Publishing for their AI-generated podcast series ‘AI Talks with Bone & Joint’. The tool seamlessly converts static research PDFs into lively and engaging podcasts, accurately summarising a paper’s findings. The podcasts give the Bone & Joint community a new way to keep up-to-date with the latest articles while multitasking, enabling them to discover which content they may wish to dive into further and in more detail.

LIBER is launching a dedicated taskforce to investigate Artificial Intelligence (AI) developments across the research library field, strengthen its strategic approach to AI-related matters, and provide hands-on guidance for librarians to take on the leading role in AI literacy.

67 Bricks and Bone & Joint have been shortlisted for this year’s ALPSP Innovation Award in Publishing for their AI-generated podcast series ‘AI Talks with Bone & Joint’. The tool seamlessly converts static research PDFs into lively and engaging podcasts, accurately summarising a paper’s findings. The podcasts give the Bone & Joint community a new way to keep up-to-date with the latest articles while multitasking, enabling them to discover which content they may wish to dive into further and in more detail.

Silverchair has launched the pilot of ScholarOne Gateway, a new centralized hub that will revolutionize the way authors interact with publishers during the submission and peer review process. ScholarOne Gateway addresses critical pain points in the peer review process by creating a unified, modern experience that connects authors to a publisher’s entire journal portfolio through a single, intuitive interface.

Frontiers and the University of Miami are pleased to announce a new flat fee open access publishing agreement. Through this partnership, affiliated researchers can publish in a selection of leading peer-reviewed journals without incurring article processing charges (APCs), which are fully covered by the University.

The BSI family of journals are an important part of our mission to support the immunology community in driving scientific discovery and making a positive impact on health. Not only do our journals Clinical & Experimental Immunology, Immunotherapy Advances and Discovery Immunology, provide a trusted home for quality immunology research, they also act as an important revenue stream for the BSI.

Frontiers has expanded its publishing partnership with ZBMed, the Germany-based life sciences centre, and signed an agreement to deposit article metadata in its new Open Life Science Publication Database (OLSPub), being the first publisher to agree to supply this information to the new database.

The Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) has signed its first consortium agreement in North America, marking a significant milestone for the fully Open Access publisher. The agreement is with the Federal Science Libraries Network (FSLN) and will last for two years. Five Canadian federal agencies will gain access to MDPI’s Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP), including significant discounts on article processing charges for affiliated scholars across its portfolio of 475 journals.

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, is proud to celebrate the strong success of its publications in the latest Journal Citation Reports (JCR) from Clarivate Analytics, with over 75% of ACM journals indexed in the JCR increasing their impact factors and the highest number to date of journals ranked in the first quartile in one or more categories. Leading survey and tutorial journal ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) continued its multi-year ascent in the rankings with an all-time-high impact factor of 28.0, taking top ranking in the Computer Science, Theory & Methods category for the second year in a row.

Canadian Science Publishing (CSP), an independent not-for-profit publisher with a strong reputation for excellence in scientific journal publishing, has acquired Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience (JPN) from CMA Impact Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Canadian Medical Association, effective September 2, 2025. 

As part of its ongoing commitment to scientific transparency and responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced plans to implement a new policy that will cap how much publishers can charge NIH-supported scientists to make their research findings publicly accessible. This initiative reflects a broader effort to restore public trust in public health by promoting open, honest, and transparent scientific communication.

The Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) has signed its first consortium agreement in North America, marking a significant milestone for the fully Open Access publisher. The agreement is with the Federal Science Libraries Network (FSLN) and will last for two years. Five Canadian federal agencies will gain access to MDPI’s Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP), including significant discounts on article processing charges for affiliated scholars across its portfolio of 475 journals.

IOP Publishing (IOPP) and the University of California (UC) today announced a new transformative open access agreement that will accelerate publishing and expand access to high-quality research in physics and related disciplines. The three-year agreement will make it easier and more affordable for UC researchers to publish open access articles in all of IOPP’s owned journals and most of its partner journals, a total of 77 titles, and will advance the university’s efforts to empower more of its authors to share their research freely with the world.