The International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers, known for short by the initials for the last part of its name, STM, is an international trade association organised and run for the benefit of

scholarly The scholarly method or scholarship is the body of principles and practices used by scholars and academics to make their claims about their subjects of expertise as valid and trustworthy as possible, and to make them known to the scholarly pu ...

, scientific, technical, medical, and professional publishers. It was conceived as the STM Group at the

Frankfurt Book Fair The Frankfurt Book Fair (German: , FBM) is the world's largest trade fair for books, based on the number of publishing companies represented. The five-day annual event in mid-October is held at the Frankfurt Trade Fair grounds in Frankfurt am ...

of 1969 following discussions at the 1968 meeting of the

International Publishers Association The International Publishers Association (IPA, originally Congrès international des éditeurs) is an international publishing industry federation of national publisher associations representing book and journal publishing, founded in 1896 in Pa ...

. It obtained its current name and was registered in

Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , ; ; ) is the capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, largest city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It has a population of 933,680 in June 2024 within the city proper, 1,457,018 in the City Re ...

as a foundation in 1994. The association currently has two offices, located in

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and

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. As of 2024, it had over 140 members in 21 countries who publish more than 60% of the annually published journal literature and tens of thousands of monographs and reference works. Its

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, Ian Moss, joined the organization in 2019, following the retirement of predecessor Michael Mabe (CEO 2006–2019). STM announced on 16 November 2021 that its Board has appointed Caroline Sutton as the organization’s new Chief Executive Officer. Sutton, who previously served as Director of Open Research for

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, started the position in February 2022. STM is an inaugural signatory of the United Nations

SDG Publishers Compact The United Nations SDG Publishers Compact is a non-binding United Nations pact open to publishers, associations, booksellers and other organizations involved in the publishing industry, in support of the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development ...

and has taken steps to support the achievement of the

Sustainable Development Goals The ''2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development'', adopted by all United Nations (UN) members in 2015, created 17 world Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The aim of these global goals is "peace and prosperity for people and the planet" – wh ...

(SDGs) in the publishing industry. These include officially endorsing action suggestions from the SDG Publishers Compact Fellows and establishing the SDGs Academic Publishers Forum in 2022 to provide information and support to STM members.

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