International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers

To support and assist STM publishers and their authors in the dissemination of scientific, scholarly and professional information; to ensure that the quality of STM publishing remains high. STM publishers serve and represent hundreds of thousands of authors world-wide and work to ensure that copyright laws are upheld, licensing agreements are fulfilled and royalties are paid to rightsholders. STM offers both training courses and information-sharing meetings for members as well as non-members. While increasingly focusing on the digital environment, STM keeps a sharp eye on the ongoing developments in the reprographic domain.
With respect to its organisation, its Board numbers 15 members.