STM response to Amsterdam Call for Action on Open Science

abernard102@gmail.com 2016-04-09

Summary:

"The International Association for Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM) welcomes the useful contribution of the Amsterdam Call for Action on Open Science to the discussion about how to achieve Open Science. We do note with some disappointment that the process leading to the Call for Action was not sufficiently transparent and did not reflect valuable stakeholder input. STM considers that cooperation and collaboration between all stakeholders is vital to continue the successful and sustainable development of Open Science. STM publishers attending the Amsterdam conference all affirmed their commitment to Open Science and continued development of a wide-range of innovative solutions to advance Open Science. For example STM members offer extensive choices of where and how to publish, pre-existing open infrastructure funded through sustainable business models, innovative services to make data openly available in perpetuity, and support and tools to capture research metrics of all kinds. As publishers, our mission is to ensure science is more reliable, efficient, and responsive to societal challenges. We believe that all in the community engaged in advancing Open Science can work together to avoid undermining the quality of published research information in the following ways ..."

Link:

http://www.stm-assoc.org/2016_04_08_News_Release_STM_response_to_Call_for_Action_on_Open_Science.pdf?platform=hootsuite

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oa.new oa.comment oa.europe oa.events oa.open_science oa.policies oa.publishers oa.business_models oa.quality

Date tagged:

04/09/2016, 08:08

Date published:

04/09/2016, 04:08