International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers

“to assist publishers and their authors in their activities in disseminating the results of research in the fields of science, technology and medicine; 2. to assist national and international organisations and communications industries in the electronic environment, who are concerned with improving the dissemination, storage and retrieval of scientific, technical and medical information; 3. to carry out the foregoing work of the Association in conjunction with the International Publishers Association (IPA) and with the national publishers associations and such other governmental and professional bodies, international and national, who may be concerned with these tasks.”