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Archives: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility

Community Reflections: Takeaways from the Diversity Sessions at SSP’s 43rd Annual Meeting, Part 4

This week a series of posts looking back at the lessons learned from SSP Meeting DEI sessions. Today’s post looks at “Retrogression Research and Limiting Diversity: the Impact of the Pandemic on Scholarly Publishing’s Inequities”

  • By Steph Pollock, Sneha K. Rhode, Susan J. Harris, Timothy McAdoo, Jiayun Wang
  • Dec 2, 2021
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Community Reflections: Takeaways from the Diversity Sessions at SSP’s 43rd Annual Meeting, Part 3

This week a series of posts looking back at the lessons learned from SSP Meeting DEI sessions. Today’s post looks at “Accelerating DEI: Have the Data? Use the Data!”

  • By Susan Spilka, Nicola Poser, Michelle Urberg
  • Dec 1, 2021
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Community Reflections: Takeaways from the Diversity Sessions at SSP’s 43rd Annual Meeting, Part 2

This week a series of posts looking back at the lessons learned from SSP Meeting DEI sessions. Today’s post looks at “The Glass Ceiling You Don’t Know About Yet”.

  • By Simon Holt, Georgie Field, Nicola Poser, Damita Snow, Hannah Vinchur, George Neame
  • Nov 30, 2021
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Community Reflections: Takeaways from the Diversity Sessions at SSP’s 43rd Annual Meeting Part 1

This week a series of posts looking back at the lessons learned from SSP Meeting DEI sessions. Today’s post looks at Dr. Joseph Williams’s keynote, “Fighting Racial Inequity in the Publishing Industry”.

  • By Cason Lynley, Miranda Walker, Steven D. Smith, George Neame, Dana Compton
  • Nov 29, 2021
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Towards Standardizing Plain Language Summaries: The Open Pharma Recommendations

Adeline Rosenberg offers a look into the value of providing plain language summaries in research papers, and the standards created for doing so.

  • By Adeline Rosenberg
  • Nov 16, 2021
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Job Hunting with an “Invisible” Disability: A Conversation

Today’s guest post — the second in a series of two — is a conversation between Katy Alexander and Sylvia Hunter about job hunting with a disability in the publishing industry. 

  • By Sylvia Izzo Hunter, Katy Alexander
  • Oct 28, 2021
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Some Perspectives on Disability Disclosure in the Publishing Industry

Today’s guest post, by Simon Holt and Erin Osborne-Martin, is the first of two looking at the experiences of people with disabilities in scholarly publishing (the second will be published tomorrow).

  • By Simon Holt, Erin Osborne-Martin
  • Oct 27, 2021
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

We Are Seeking a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Associate Editor

The Scholarly Kitchen is seeking a new editor for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility coverage.

  • By David Crotty
  • Oct 18, 2021
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Guest Post — Introducing Demographic Questions during Manuscript Submission at the American Psychological Association

Katie Einhorn, Steph Pollock, and Nick Paolini discuss APA’s efforts to collect demographic information during manuscript submission. In this interview, they share what they did, why, how, and what this means for other publishing organizations.

  • By Katie Einhorn, Steph Pollock, Nick Paolini
  • Oct 14, 2021
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and Open Access: Gerald Beasley Interviews Timon Oefelein (Part 2 of 2)

In Part 2 of this pair of posts we turn the tables and Gerald Beasley interviews Timon Oefelein of Springer Nature about how publishers can support the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

  • By Gerald R. Beasley
  • Oct 8, 2021
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and Open Access: Timon Oefelein Interviews Gerald Beasley (Part 1 of 2)

In Part 1 of this pair of posts, Timon Oefelein interviews Gerald R. Beasley, the Carl A. Kroch University Librarian at Cornell University, about how librarians can support the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

  • By Timon Oefelein
  • Oct 8, 2021
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Guest Post — Why the “Who” of Peer Review is Important

Continuing our series of posts for Peer Review Week 2021, guest authors Matt Giampoala, Randy Townsend, and Paige Wooden of AGU share their efforts to improve reviewer and editorial board diversity.

  • By Matt Giampoala, Randy Townsend, Paige Wooden
  • Sep 22, 2021
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Open Reviewer Identities: Full Steam Ahead or Proceed with Caution?

Open peer review has been growing steadily but its implementations take many different forms. Alison Mudditt and Véronique Kiermer take a deep dive into the question of whether reviewers should be openly identified.

  • By Véronique Kiermer, Alison Mudditt
  • Sep 21, 2021
  • 17 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Ask The Chefs: How Does Identity Influence Peer Review?

In anticipation of #PeerReviewWeek21 we asked the Chefs about the role of identity in peer review. See what they said and share your views!

  • By Ann Michael, Charlie Rapple, Tim Vines, Haseeb Irfanullah, Alice Meadows, Jasmine Wallace, Robert Harington, Judy Luther
  • Sep 16, 2021
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

The North is Drawing the South Closer, But, This is Not the Whole Picture of Geographical Inclusion

Geographical inclusion in scholarly publishing needs to do more than just drawing the Global South closer to the Global North.

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Sep 2, 2021
  • 11 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

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