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</div> </div> </div> <div class="grid__item --clickable-block style-blue" > <div> <h3>STM will continue to innovate and invest in the technologies, systems and practices that enable excellence and integrity.</h3> <div class="grid__callout_description"><h2><a class="accordion-link btn btn-white" href="#OA-03">DELVE DEEPER</a></h2> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="flex__spacer"></section> <section class="flex__grid_callouts style-a"> <div class="flex__grid_callouts_grid columns-3"> <div class="grid__item --clickable-block style-blue" > <div> <h3>STM will continue to support the adoption of Open Research practices to encompass the open sharing of other research outputs (beyond the final article).</h3> <div class="grid__callout_description"><h2><a class="accordion-link btn btn-white" href="#OA-05">DELVE DEEPER</a></h2> </div> </div> </div> <div class="grid__item --clickable-block style-blue" > <div> <h3>STM does not endorse Rights Retention Strategies or Green OA with no embargo.</h3> <div class="grid__callout_description"><h2><a class="accordion-link btn btn-white" href="#OA-04">DELVE DEEPER</a></h2> </div> </div> </div> <div class="grid__item --clickable-block style-blue" > <div> <div class="grid__callout_description"><div style="position: relative; width: 100%; height: 0; padding-top: 56.2500%; padding-bottom: 0; box-shadow: 0 2px 8px 0 rgba(63,69,81,0.16); margin-top: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.9em; overflow: hidden; border-radius: 8px; will-change: transform;"><iframe style="position: absolute; width: 100%; height: 100%; top: 0; left: 0; border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" src="https://www.canva.com/design/DAFe-pSxuRE/watch?embed" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"><br /> </iframe></div> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="flex__callout_accordion --no-image"> <div class="flex__callout_accordion__section-heading"> <h2>The drill down | How our position is exhibited in action<h2> </div> <div class="flex__callout_accordion_main "> <div class="flex__callout_accordion__accordion-list"> <div class="flex__callout_accordion__item"> <button class="flex__callout_accordion__item-button"><h3>STM will work with stakeholders to create sustainable pathways that ensure authors are able to make their Version of Record Open Access.</h3></button> <div class="flex__callout_accordion__item-content"> <div class="flex__callout_accordion__item-content-inner"> <p><strong>WHY</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Knowledge-creation, discovery and sharing is best enabled when the final articles resulting from all stages of the peer-review and</strong><br /> <strong>publication process are immediately openly available to all</strong>.</li> <li>The <strong>VoR is the most thoroughly vetted version of the research publication</strong>, having been through all stages of the peer-review and<br /> publication process. We know from author feedback that they prefer OA being to the VoR. A key feature of the VoR is that it is the version against which any future corrections (for a Corrected Version of Record) or enhancements<br /> (Enhanced Version of Record) will be made.</li> </ul> <p><strong>HOW</strong></p> <ul> <li>By urging funders and institutions to work with publishers to enable researchers to choose Gold OA to achieve OA to the VoR.</li> <li>By monitoring the uptake of different routes to Open Access through the <a href="https://www.stm-assoc.org/oa-dashboard/">STM OA Dashboard</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class="flex__callout_accordion__item"> <button class="flex__callout_accordion__item-button"><h3>STM will engage in— and facilitate—community and stakeholder collaborations to ensure research integrity.</h3></button> <div class="flex__callout_accordion__item-content"> <div class="flex__callout_accordion__item-content-inner"> <p><strong>WHY</strong></p> <ul> <li>Research integrity is an issue that requires community-wide involvement to uphold.</li> </ul> <p><strong>HOW</strong></p> <ul> <li>Through the development of standards, tools and solutions to improve and ensure the integrity of publications—regardless of access model.</li> <li>By engaging stakeholders globally – to define and build the critical infrastructure needed to support open and trusted scholarly communications at scale.</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class="flex__callout_accordion__item"> <button class="flex__callout_accordion__item-button"><h3>STM will continue to innovate and invest in the technologies, systems and practices that enable excellence and integrity.</h3></button> <div class="flex__callout_accordion__item-content"> <div class="flex__callout_accordion__item-content-inner"> <p><b>WHY</b></p> <ul> <li>This <strong>innovation</strong> and <strong>investment</strong> will only <strong>grow in importance</strong> as the corpus of research that comprises the academic record grows.</li> </ul> <p><b>HOW </b></p> <ul> <li>Publishers invest heavily in the operation of peer review publication processes, curation and stewardship of the scholarly record at scale.</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class="flex__callout_accordion__item"> <button class="flex__callout_accordion__item-button"><h3>STM does not endorse Rights Retention Strategies or Green OA with no embargo.</h3></button> <div class="flex__callout_accordion__item-content"> <div class="flex__callout_accordion__item-content-inner"> <p><b>WHY </b></p> <ul> <li>These <strong>undermine the subscription model they are dependent upon</strong> and carry with them <strong>potential unintended </strong><strong>consequences</strong>.</li> <li>OA models that promote immediate open access to accepted manuscripts with zero embargoes are not viable for a majority of STM publishers.</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class="flex__callout_accordion__item"> <button class="flex__callout_accordion__item-button"><h3>STM will continue to support the adoption of Open Research 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