The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM) is an international trade association organised and run for the benefit of scholarly, scientific, technical, medical and professional publishers. It was conceived as the STM Group at the Frankfurt Book Fair

Frankfurt Book Fair

The Frankfurt Book Fair is the world's largest trade fair for books, based on the number of publishing companies represented. As to the number of visitors, the Turin Book Fair attracts about as many visitors, viz. some 300,000....

 of 1969 following discussions at the 1968 meeting of the International Publishers Association

International Publishers Association

The International Publishers Association is an international publishing industry federation of national Publisher associations representing book and journal publishing. It is a non-profit and non-governmental organization, founded in 1896 to promote and protect publishing and to raise awareness...

 (IPA). It was renamed the International Association of STM Publishers (STM) and registered in Amsterdam as a not for profit stichting in 1994. The association currently has two offices, located in the Hague and in Oxford. As of 2010 it had over 100 members who publish over 60% of the annually published journals literature and tens of thousands of monographs and references works. Since 2006 its Chief Executive Officer has been Michael Mabe.