Publishers Reaffirm Mission to Make Research Information Widely Accessible.Business Editors HAGUE, Netherlands--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 5, 2003 The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM (Scanning Tunneling Microscope) A microscope that can image down to the atomic level. An STM uses a piezoelectric tube with a tiny sharp tip at the end that is moved within nanometers of the object being sampled. ) announced in a statement today that it believes that "broadening and ensuring continuity of information access for researchers, scholars, and practitioners is a critical mission for all publishers." Issued on behalf of its twelve-member Executive Board, the statement continued: "Scientific research has never been more accessible than it is today. In recent years, STM publishers have been working closely with scientists, researchers, and librarians to lead the ongoing revolution in the dissemination of scholarly information. We have leveraged emerging technologies and invested hundreds of millions of dollars to make more scientific research information more accessible to more people than ever before. In the process, we have developed - and continue to develop - innovative and accessible business models to broaden information access. Recent developments such as flexible subscription licensing arrangements customised to meet the needs of libraries and consortia; "pay-per-view" article access at prices within reach of non-subscribing individuals; and implementation of standards such as cross-linking protocols (such as CrossRef) and enabling technologies (such as the digital object identifier
A digital object identifier (or DOI) is a permanent identifier given to a document, which is not related to its current location. ) have made seamless navigation and discovery possible across a growing web of published resources. The HINARI HINARI Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative and AGORA initiatives are examples of how publishers are bringing current research information within the reach of those who need it in low-income nations worldwide. "Scientific disciplines differ in their scholarly communication Scholarly Communication is an umbrella term used to describe the process of academics, scholars and researchers sharing and publishing their research findings so that they are available to the wider academic community (such as university academics) and beyond. practices. Journals differ from one another in their editorial content, features, sales models, and how they serve the needs of their specific research communities. STM applauds the multiple journal business models that have successfully emerged to serve the needs of authors and customers by ensuring the wide and continuous dissemination of consistently high-quality, independently validated research. We welcome additional publishers to our markets. As publishers of science, we naturally look forward to any new experiments in our field. "Abandoning the diversity of proven publishing models in favour of a single, untested model could have disastrous consequences for the scientific research community. It could seriously jeopardize the flow of information today, as well as continuity of the archival record of scientific progress that is so important to our society tomorrow. "It is the competitive and well-functioning market, and not governments, that must choose which business models and which publishers are best equipped to stay apace of the ever-increasing demand for information exchange." About STM The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers STM is a global organization of over 100 scholarly and professional publishers. STM's membership includes both commercial and non-commercial publishers from North and South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Asia, Australia, and Europe. Founded in 1968, STM has its headquarters in The Hague, The Hague, The (hāg), Du. 's Gravenhage or Den Haag, Fr. La Haye, city (1994 pop. 445,279), administrative and governmental seat of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, capital of South Holland prov., W Netherlands, on the North Sea. Netherlands. Its website can be found at http://www.stm-assoc.org STM Executive Board 2003/2004 Eric Swanson (Chairman), John Wiley John Wiley may refer to:
Peter Hendriks (Treasurer), Kluwer Academic Publishers, NL Stella Dutton (Vice-Chair), BMJ BMJ n abbr (= British Medical Journal) → vom BMA herausgegebene Zeitschrift Publishing Group, UK Stefan von Holtzbrinck, Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, Germany Timothy Ingoldsby, American Institute of Physics The American Institute of Physics (AIP) is a professional body representing American physicists and publishing physics related journals. It was founded in 1931. The aims of the organization are: "promoting the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics and its , USA John Jarvis John Jarvis is a notable karateka from New Zealand. He is Shihan, 5th Dan. His first instructor was Steve Arneil in 1967. Later, John Jarvis was a personal representative of Masutatsu Oyama and Kyokushinkai chief instructor in New Zealand. , John Wiley & Sons, UK Arie Jongejan, Elsevier, NL Arnoud de Kemp, Springer-Verlag, Germany Ted Nardin, The McGraw-Hill Companies, USA Mark Robertson
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