Claudia has been an integral part of STM’s public affairs team since 2020, most recently as Senior Manager of Public Affairs EU. Her appointment is a recognition of her extraordinary work to date and the leadership she has shown in shaping STM’s policy engagement on key issues over the past years.

In her new role, Claudia will continue to drive STM’s policy priorities in Europe while also contributing to supporting STM’s CEO in leading global public affairs strategy as Deputy Global Director.

“Claudia brings clarity, steadiness, and sharp insight to everything she does. Her leadership has already shaped STM’s voice in key policy conversations, and I’m excited to see her bring that same energy and expertise to this broader role.”
—Caroline Sutton, CEO, STM

Please join us in congratulating Claudia on this well-deserved promotion!

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TollBit has developed an AI monitoring and monetisation platform already trusted by over 2,400 leading publisher websites. In their upcoming webinar, they’ll offer a sneak peek at their upcoming ‘State of the Bots Report’ and discuss their latest tools for monitoring, managing and monetising AI crawler activity. Join here on 10 September (passcode 306368).

Cloudflare is developing a new suite of AI auditing tools designed to empower publishers to choose what, if any, AI access they want to allow. In their webinar, they’ll share how publishers can now monitor attention from AI crawlers, block unwanted data scraping and even charge AI crawlers for access to new content. Join here on 24 September (passcode 972257).

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Jan-Peter Wissink, managing director of Amsterdam University Press, where SUPRR is based, encourages publishers and others to ‘remain vigilant against actions that undermine or may discredit the foundations of academic publishing and international law.’

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• Maintain recognition of publisher investments in vetted, validated, peer-reviewed articles
• Find ways to minimise researcher burdens
• Ensure Canadian researchers have appropriate funding and opportunities to publish

We’ll continue engaging, in coordination with our members, to support an OA policy that works.

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The draft policy requires:

• Immediate access to ‘all agency-funded, peer-reviewed research articles published by agency-funded grantees and chairholders’
• Deposit of the version of record (VoR) or accepted manuscript (AM) to a Canadian institutional repository with an open license, to be implemented through rights retention (if deposit conflicts with publisher policy, authors have the option to submit an author’s original (AO) to the repository)

The draft doesn’t mention paying for gold, but also doesn’t mention any restrictions on grant funds for publishing costs.

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Thank you to everyone who contributed to this incredible momentum. And so much more to come in 2025. Happy holidays, STM.

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Addressing critical dimensions relating to intellectual property, transparency, accountability, quality and integrity, fairness, safety, design, and sustainable development, the Global Principles on AI mark an unprecedented collaboration that safeguards the interests of content creators, publishers, and consumers alike.

In the Principles, the organizations call for the responsible development and deployment of AI systems and applications, stating that these new tools must only be developed in accordance with established principles and laws that protect publishers’ intellectual property, brands, consumer relationships, and investments. The Principles state explicitly that AI systems’ “indiscriminate misappropriation of our intellectual property is unethical, harmful, and an infringement of our protected rights.”

Among other things, the Global AI Principles stipulate that developers, operators, and deployers of AI systems should:

• Respect intellectual property rights protecting the organizations’ investments in original content.
• Leverage efficient licensing models that can facilitate innovation through training of trustworthy and high-quality AI systems.
• Provide granular transparency to allow publishers to enforce their rights where their content is included in training datasets.
• Clearly attribute content to the original publishers of the content.
• Recognise publishers’ invaluable role in generating high-quality content for training, surfacing and synthesising.
• Comply with competition laws and principles and ensure that AI models are not used for anti-competitive purposes.
• Promote trusted and reliable sources of information and ensure that AI generated content is accurate, correct and complete.
• Not misrepresent original works.
• Respect the privacy of users that interact with them and fully disclose the use of their personal data in AI system design, training, and use.
• Align with human values and operate in accordance with global laws.

The full Global Principles for AI, which can be found here, elaborate on each of the points above in greater detail.

Organizations signing onto the Global AI Principles include:

• AMI – Colombian News Media Association
• Asociación de Entidades Periodísticas Argentinas (Adepa)
• Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers
• Associação Nacional de Jornais (Brazilian Newspaper Association) (ANJ)
• Czech Publishers’ Association
• Danish Media Association
• Digital Content Next
• European Magazine Media Association
• European Newspaper Publishers’ Association
• European Publishers Council
• FIPP
• Grupo de Diarios América
• Inter American Press Association
• Korean Association of Newspapers
• Magyar Lapkiadók Egyesülete (Hungarian Publishers’ Association)
• NDP Nieuwsmedia
• News/Media Alliance
• News Media Association
• News Media Canada
• News Media Europe
• News Media Finland
• News Publishers’ Association
• Nihon Shinbun Kyokai (The Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Association)
• Professional Publishers Association
• STM
• World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA)

The Principles are open to future signatories.

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“Under such difficult conditions, free access to electronic resources of scientific information is especially important for Ukrainian scientists,” Kudriavets wrote. “Maintaining such access will help them to continue effectively their scientific activities. That is why we will be grateful to the Research4Life Partner Publishers for maintaining access for Ukrainian scientists to the electronic resources of scientific information provided on the Research4Life platform during 2023 and 2024.”

Research4Life continues to look for ways to support Ukraine during this time of conflict. In addition to extending Ukraine’s free access to Research4Life through 2024, the partnership also explores opportunities such as translating massive online open courses (MOOCs) into Ukrainian and supporting publishers who waive processing fees for open access, marking a resilient path forward for Ukraine’s researchers amid ongoing adversity. Ukraine has also strengthened its local research community by joining the Research4Life Country Connectors Network, made up of local library representatives who foster a community of evidence users.

Since its founding in 2001, Research4Life has become a driving force for equality in research publishing by providing access to free and low-cost academic content and training in information literacy and research communication. It fosters inclusion and equity through partnerships with UN agencies, universities, and over 200 publisher partners. The collaboration’s reach extends to 11,000 institutions across 125 countries, fueled by volunteer efforts and initiatives like Friends of Research4Life. 

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Hosted by the National Academy of Sciences last week, we heard about the impressive work of our R4L ‘Country Connectors’ – library representatives from the Republic of Tanzania, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Bhutan and Ghana. Start up funding has been provided by the Elsevier Foundation, recently joined by Springer. Led by Blessing Mawire, our team is building a community of evidence users in country, assisting with researcher and librarian training, understanding blockers to access, routes to publishing and taking action. By 2024 we will have 15 Country Connectors including the State Scientific and Technical Library of Ukraine with support from the Ministry of Education & Science.

The power of local community building is clear: to engage with lapsed institutions, to aid password to IP transition, to set up new access in smaller institutions, to run writing-up workshops, deliver subject-based research skills training. The longer term goal is to develop an ambassador network to future-proof the Connector model, working successfully in Kenya. Many of our Connectors are setting up WhatsApp groups to engage with user queries and communicate training, but equally they are building south-south collaborations — for example, Tanzania and Bhutan sharing repository set-up knowledge. Opportunities to stimulate local publishing are kicking off too with publisher workshops assessing local needs in Ghana and Tanzania.

Working in a home office environment means you can sometimes miss the deeper level of connection to your work. Meeting everyone last week was a wonderful reminder that R4L is doing work rich with meaning and purpose. We’d love more publishers to get involved beyond your generous donation of content. Contact Sarah@stm-assoc.org.

STM R4L DC July 2023

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The roadmap offers practical suggestions, starting with small steps like signing the SDG Publishers’ Compact and sending a questionnaire to gather your colleagues’ views about SDGs. Later, it guides you through selecting the SDGs that are most relevant to your organisation, nominating individual(s) to coordinate SDG efforts and more.

Our goal is to have at least 50% of STM members sign up. Will you join us in supporting sustainability and social responsibility?

Explore the roadmap & sign up here.

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