Introducing the inaugural STM OA Progress Report, a highlight-focused companion to the newly launched STM OA Dashboard, a dynamic resource for exploring in-depth figures pertaining to OA uptake by research discipline, funder, region — and model. A key takeaway from this edition —35% of all articles published were via Gold OA, continuing an upward trend. 

This report, which offers a snapshot of data and trends, looking beyond OA uptake to include research integrity and social responsibility, sets a benchmark for annual updates to chart ongoing developments in Open Access.

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This report, which offers a snapshot of data and trends, looking beyond OA uptake to include research integrity and social responsibility, sets a benchmark for annual updates to chart ongoing developments in Open Access.

The report is freely available for download.

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Questions in the NASA RFI are similar to the NIH RFI, with the addition of a prompt on software. STM will submit a response and encourages members to do so as well.

Note that NASA had earlier released a new policy for the Science Mission Directorate (SMD) requiring immediate access to publications and broader access to data and software, but this only applied to SMD, not to other Directorates in NASA. Additionally, revisions to that policy (SPD-41a) were already underway before the August 2022 memo was issued.

Each agency is pursuing its own approach to revising its public access policy and may or may not issue requests for public comment. STM continues to engage directly with agencies where we can and will keep members posted on opportunities to participate in public comment or private dialogue.

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“As we enter a new phase of Open Access at a new and greater scale, as we  laid out in STM Trends 2026,  common infrastructure to support scholarly communications is more important than ever,” said Hylke Koers, Chief Information  Officer for STM Solutions. “It will be essential in ensuring researchers can publish, discover and read scholarly works  with ease and rely on the quality, integrity and trustworthiness of published research.”

“Ithaka S+R has a well-established and very strong reputation conducting this type of work within academia and we are delighted that they will be carrying out this project,” said Koers.

Roger Schonfeld of Ithaka S+R notes that, “Building the infrastructure necessary to advance scholarly research and disseminate it effectively is a vital priority. At Ithaka S+R, we’ve been invested in the organizational structures and institutional design necessary to advance these objectives, particularly within research libraries, for many years. I’m so pleased that our work will contribute to building and sustaining community infrastructure that will enable all parties invested in the scholarly communication ecosystem to better support scholarship today and into the future.”

As the rapid evolution of research communication continues, and the academic record grows, dozens of platforms and tools and services have emerged – many of which play an essential role in the discovery, communication and interpretation of research findings. 

This project will enable a deeper understanding of this infrastructure, to identify weak points as well as opportunities for innovation and future development that will better support the needs of researchers, funders, publishers and librarians. Long-term trends in scholarly publication and how those trends place new and/or changing demands on the infrastructure will also be examined. Finally, a gap analysis will identify issues that currently are not being sufficiently addressed, where additional investments are needed, and where collective action is required.

Among those key stakeholders who will be interviewed during the research portion of the work: authors/researchers, funding agencies, publishers, libraries, organizations that provide services for scholarly communications, and organizations that represent these stakeholders.

Ithaka S+R will have full editorial independence in the production of this paper. 

This work is supported by funding from the American Chemical Society, Elsevier,  IEEE, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, and Wiley.

Read Ithaka S+R’s Roger Schonfeld’s blog piece on the project.

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