Scientific Technical and Medical (STM)

STM is unashamedly proud of the achievements of academic publishers in bringing research of all kinds to the attention of a global audience of academia and the wider public. Together, publishers share more than three million research papers every year bringing fresh insight into the nature of human existence and in many cases announcing world-changing discoveries.

Mission:
At STM they support their members in their mission to advance research worldwide. Their over 140 members based in over 20 countries around the world collectively publish 66% of all journal articles and tens of thousands of monographs and reference works. As academic and professional publishers, learned societies, university presses, start-ups and established players we work together to serve society by developing standards and technology to ensure research is of high quality, trustworthy and easy to access. They promote the contribution that publishers make to innovation, openness and the sharing of knowledge and embrace change to support the growth and sustainability of the research ecosystem. As a common good, we provide data and analysis for all involved in the global activity of research.

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.