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C4DISC Is Officially Launched!

Today sees the official launch of C4DISC, the Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications. Learn more about the organization and how you can get involved in this post by Alice Meadows.

IOP Moves to Universal Double-blind Peer Review: An Interview with Kim Eggleton

Rick Anderson interviews Kim Eggleton of IOP about the publisher’s recently announced move to 100% double-blind peer review.

Guest Post — Driving Gender Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications: The Power of an Active ERG

A look at how Employee Resource Groups can create positive change in the workplace.

Fixing the Present Requires an Understanding of History

John Oliver presents a fairly devastating look at how history is taught in America and how that has contributed to our current problems.

Revisiting: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Our Story: Hamiltunes and the Burden of Founding Histories

Looking back at a 2015 post on the musical “Hamilton”, which raises questions about history and historical practice that reflects what scholars are and aren’t doing.

Guest Post — An Antiracist Framework for Scholarly Publishing

Introducing The Antiracism Toolkit for Allies, an antiracism resource for the scholarly publishing community.

Guest Post — Bringing Diverse Perspectives into Scholarly Marketing and Communications: Calls to Action towards Global Outreach for Global Change Part 2

COVID-19 and the anti-racist movement are driving publishers to respond to and engage with readers in new and innovative ways but will these continue? This two-part guest post by Kasia Repeta features calls to action from across the publishing community.

Guest Post — Bringing Diverse Perspectives into Scholarly Marketing and Communications: Calls to Action towards Global Outreach for Global Change Part 1

COVID-19 and the anti-racist movement are driving publishers to respond to and engage with readers in new and innovative ways but will these continue? This two-part guest post by Kasia Repeta features calls to action from across the publishing community.

Guest Post — The Covid Infodemic and the Future of the Communication of Science

ResearchGate’s Joseph DeBruin looks at the balance between speed and uncertainty in scholarly communication, and how technology can facilitate better information travel.

Three Pulitzer Prize Winners Discuss Racism, Slavery, and Resistance in American History

A fascinating conversation among important authors about racism, history, and our current moment.

Happy Juneteenth!

Happy Juneteenth! Today we celebrate the oldest national commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. Let us all continue to learn what we must learn, do what we must do, so that our nation can be what we want it to be.

Revisiting — On Being Excluded: Testimonies by People of Color in Scholarly Publishing

We revisit two posts from 2018. These powerful testimonies, by people of color, about their experience of racism in scholarly publishing, clearly show that we have “a great deal of powerful and humbling work to do” to address racism and the white-dominated culture of our industry.