STM’s Hot Button Issues: Open Access, Data and Social Media

Trends and new approaches that are reinvigorating science, technical and medical publishing were explored last week at the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers' (STM) three-day Annual U.S. Conference 2015 in Washington, DC.

Blasting Open Access
Setting an inspiring tone for the conference, Jeff Beale, scholarly communications librarian at University of Colorado, Denver, lambasted Open Access in his keynote address on the first day.