STM has issued a strong statement opposing OMB's proposed federal funding guidance revisions, which would affect how federally funded research is published and disseminated. STM joins a coalition of libraries, universities, and research organizations in pushing back. This story is part of a larger policy battle around whether the US government can control or restrict the publication pipeline for federally funded science — with implications for open access mandates, APC caps, and the independence of the publishing ecosystem. The AI angle: if these regulations pass, they could reshape the data and research publishing environment that AI training pipelines depend on.

Source: STM Publishing