Access Statement from International Association of STM Publishers

The statement in its entirety:

At a strategy meeting of our members last year [2010] STM developed new positions on access which inform all our policies going forward:

• Publishers are committed to the wide dissemination of, and unrestricted access to, their content
• We support any and all sustainable access models that ensure the integrity and permanence of the scholarly record
• We do not support unfunded mandates that constrain scholarly authors or affect the sustainability of the publishing enterprise
• Services that publishers provide must be paid for in some way

We believe that a level playing field with light touch regulation is the quickest and best way to realise the goals of widening access we ALL share