The Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM) has announced the launch of a demonstrator implementation for its well-received Article Sharing Framework (ASF). The ASF leverages existing industry technologies and infrastructures to enable content sharing in ways that are simple, seamless and consistent with publisher’s policies and legal frameworks. The ASF therefore supports platforms to comply with the 2019/790 EU directive which deals with copyright in the Digital Single Market.
Developed by STM Solutions, the operational arm of STM, and in close collaboration with STM’s ASF Working Group, the newly launched demonstrator enables platforms to use the ASF and start developing and testing integrations using real-life data delivered by participating publishers, thus allowing platforms to determine in real-time whether journal articles can be legally shared.
The ASF enables platforms to make sharing decisions in real-time utilising metadata that is embedded within the content by publishers and made available via an application programming interface (API). With a full implementation by Crossref expected in 2022, the demonstrator showcases the value and applicability of the ASF. The demonstrator is based on real-life ASF license information from several publishers covering over hundred thousand recently published journal articles.
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