STM Report 2015: brief contents
The STM Association is one of the leading professional associations, which integrates scholarly publishers all over the world. Members of the Association are 120 representatives of the publishing industry from 21 countries who each year publishes approximately 66% of the total amount of articles and tens of thousands of monographs and reference works. Annually on the Association's website is published STM Report - a report which contains comprehensive information on the state of the industry. It includes data on the number of publishing journals and publishing houses; market size; global industry trends; different distribution channels; existing models of peer review; the behavior of authors and readers; publication ethics. A separate section is devoted to open access: types and models of Open Access (OA) journals, OA monographs; various aspects of public access to research results; archiving. The report also provides information on new developments and innovations, including mobile apps; social networks; big data; Library Publishing ; services and tools for authors; collaboration tools. The authors of the report, mark Ware (Mark Ware) from Mark Ware Consulting, and Michael Meyb (Michael Mabe of STM Association. The editorial Board of "Scholarly Communication Review" is grateful to the STM Association for permission to publish the report excerpts in Russian. The section titles are translated, but all materials specified sequence number that corresponds with the table of contents of English report (the full version is available free online on the STM website), more detailed information if required, you can obtain the full version.