STM Publishing during the Coronavirus Pandemic
On Wednesday 1st July at 1pm CEST, former IPA President, Michiel Kolman talked to Ian Moss, CEO of STM – the global voice of scholarly publishing – about how the COVID-19 Pandemic has affected STM publishers and what STM and its members have done to support governments around the world.
World Book Day: Authors, Publishers and Booksellers Call for International Support
We, the undersigned representatives of the global book industry urge governments all over the world to recognize, support and celebrate the importance of books, learning solutions, and professional and scholarly content by adopting economic stimulus packages to sustain their respective publishing sectors and the value chains that surround them.
Supporting Quality Information: Libraries and Publishers Dialogue
Libraries and publishers both play an essential role in the production of, and the provision of access to, creativity and knowledge. In their pursuit of this goal, we are affected by the same trends, and share many of the same concerns.
IPA applauds CUP move to unblock censored online articles
The IPA today applauds the move by Cambridge University Press (CUP) to restore online access to its scholarly output in China, and urges the Chinese authorities not to penalize the publisher for its decision.
IPA welcomes landmark ruling against Sci-Hub and others
The International Publishers Association (IPA) welcomes a ruling by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against websites that illicitly offer millions of research papers and books that are protected by copyright.
Research4Life: boosting access to research in developing countries
195 publishers have already signed up to Research4Life’s groundbreaking schemes to boost access to academic and peer-reviewed content in developing-world countries. We spoke to STM’s Richard Gedye about the project’s rapid growth and successes to date.