STM Publishing News

DataSeer and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) are pleased to announce two new pilot programs designed to support high-quality reporting across scientific disciplines. The first will generate pre-filled MDAR reports for authors – saving them time and boosting the quality of methods reporting – for AAAS’ flagship journal Science.

Karger Publishers, a leading provider of scientific and medical content, has joined forces with Scite, an award-winning platform within the Research Solutions (NASDAQ: RSSS) product family, used by more than one million students and researchers to discover and better understand scientific literature.

ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, and Jaypee Brothers Medical Publisher, Southeast Asia’s largest and fastest-growing health sciences publisher, are pleased to announce a new partnership through ResearchGate’s innovative Journal Home offering.

We’re excited to share that we have completed our first funding round, bringing together a key group of angel investors who believe in our mission to restore trust in research. Their investment enables us to launch the Signals Data Graph and expand our offerings, providing comprehensive support to publishers in the rapidly evolving research integrity landscape.

CACTUS, a leading science communication and technology company, today announced partnership with the prestigious STM Integrity Hub to enhance STM Solutions' suite of research integrity checks, setting the stage for a more robust scholarly publishing ecosystem.

DataSeer and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) are pleased to announce two new pilot programs designed to support high-quality reporting across scientific disciplines. The first will generate pre-filled MDAR reports for authors – saving them time and boosting the quality of methods reporting – for AAAS’ flagship journal Science.

BioOne, the leading nonprofit aggregator in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences, today announced that 71 titles from 54 global societies, museums, and research organizations will participate in its Subscribe to Open (S2O) pilot beginning in January 2026. This represents the largest number of independent publishers under a single S2O offer to date. 

Taylor & Francis has today announced its first Subscribe to Open (S2O) pilot, one of several innovative options it is trialing to accelerate open access (OA) publishing. S2O enables a journal’s subscribers to support its conversion to OA, making new articles available to readers everywhere.

This news is part of EDP Sciences’ ongoing "Road to Open" series, now in its ninth update, which highlights our commitment to transparency in open access publishing. Here we focus on the importance of transparency in open access, at the occasion of the release of our 2024 transparency report, showcasing the financial and operational details of the Subscribe to Open model for mathematics journals.

Karger Publishers, a leading provider of scientific and medical content, has joined forces with Scite, an award-winning platform within the Research Solutions (NASDAQ: RSSS) product family, used by more than one million students and researchers to discover and better understand scientific literature.

As Peer Review Week kicks off, STM is excited to announce the launch of the Peer Review Terminology website—a new resource designed to bring greater clarity, consistency, and transparency to the peer review process. Created through a partnership between STM and NISO, this initiative reflects our shared mission to enhance scholarly communication and streamline research practices.  

Wiley, one of the world’s largest publishers and a global leader in research and learning, today announced plans to further expand the prestigious Advanced Portfolio, a series of highly-regarded journals in materials science, physics, and engineering communities, into new areas of study in the life and health sciences.

PLOS today announced that it has received a $1.5 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and a $1 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to support our mission to drive Open Science forward with meaningful change in scholarly publishing.

The Company of Biologists is delighted to announce a further three-year Open Access agreement with the University of California (UC). This agreement, which follows on...

The Microbiology Society, one of the largest microbiology societies in Europe, is pleased to announce a new three-year Publish and Read offering with German consortium ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences, available to its 400 member institutions and 2,000 hospitals. This agreement was established in partnership with HARRASSOWITZ, the Society’s representative agency in Germany.