Memberships

In our working practices to achieve the highest professional standards, we stay connected with industry developments and implement new initiatives for the benefit of our scholarly network and community at large.

Our company memberships in professional societies, publishing bodies, and trade organizations are vital to this, as is our need to follow best-practice procedures and adhere to industry standards. We are proud members of the scholarly publishing/industry organizations listed below:

• Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP)

• Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's medRxiv and bioRxiv

• Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (CLOCKSS)

• Confederation of Laboratories for Artificial Intelligence Research in Europe (CLAIRE)

• CrossRef 

• Dutch Techcentre for Life Sciences (DTL Foundation)

• European Association for Health Information and Libraries (EAHIL)

• Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA)

• International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers (STM)

• iThenticate

• Kudos

• National Information Standards Organization (NISO)

• Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID)

• Pistoia Alliance

• Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP)

• STM Integrity Hub

• United Kingdom Serials Group (UKSG)

We also adhere to guidelines/procedures from the following organization(s):

• Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

• Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT)

• International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE)

We have representation on working groups in affiliation with the following organizations:

• ALPSP: Equality, Diversity, and Inclusivity Working Group
• STM Integrity Hub: Paper Mills Working Group

We are a signatory of the following initiatives:

• Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC): Joint Commitment for Action on Inclusion and Diversity in Publishing
• United Nations: SDG Publishers Compact

We continue to establish other relationships as we constantly strive to make new connections for driving advancement within the scientific ecosystem.