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It’s What You Know AND Who You Know: AGU Co-Authorship Demographics — An Interview with Brooks Hanson, Jory Lerback, and Paige Wooden 

The AGU recently published new research on diversity and inclusion in co-authorship of journal articles and conference abstracts. Learn more in this interview with Brooks Hanson, Jory Lerback, and Paige Wooden.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Jun 1, 2020
  • 0 Comments

Guest Post — Report: Gender Diversity in Research is Improving, But We Still Have Work To Do

Bamini Jayabalasingham, Ylann Schemm, and Holly J. Falk-Krzesinski present the takeaways of a new report by Elsevier, “The Researcher Journey Through a Gender Lens”.

  • By Bamini Jayabalasingham, Ylann Schemm, Holly J. Falk-Krzesinski
  • Mar 10, 2020
  • 2 Comments

Inspiring the Next Generation of Women in Science

Siân Harris hears from female early-career researchers in Asia and Africa about their passion for research, the challenges they face, and the advice they would give to women and girls interested in pursuing research areas.

  • By Siân Harris
  • Feb 13, 2020
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Guest Post — “I Say Tom-ay-to, You Say Tom-ah-to”: Bias Against Non-Native English Speakers in Scholarly Communications

In today’s guest post, Kasia Repeta of Duke University Press focuses on the often-overlooked issue of bias against those who speak English with an accent and urges us all to be more inclusive.

  • By Kasia Repeta
  • Jan 14, 2020
  • 20 Comments

On Being Accepted: The Views of Four People with Disabilities Working in Scholarly Communications

What’s it like to be work in scholarly communications as a person with a disability – physical or mental? See our world through the eyes of four individuals with disabilities in this interview by Alice Meadows

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Dec 3, 2019
  • 3 Comments

Questioning Our Assumptions in Publishing Innovations: Inspiration from the Story of Indigital

Mikaela Jade and the Indigital app inspire us to question our privileged assumptions of “the user” in information design.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Nov 4, 2019
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Guest Post — Why Inclusion Matters to Technology and Technology Matters to Inclusion

Today’s guest post is by Betsy Beaumon CEO of Benetech and keynote at SSP’s annual meeting this year. She shares her passion for technology solutions to accessibility, and for making the scholarly publishing world more inclusive of people with disabilities.

  • By Betsy Beaumon
  • Oct 4, 2019
  • 5 Comments

Thinking about the Art and Science of Image Description: An Interview with textBOX Founders

If a picture is worth a thousand words, the folks at textBOX can help publishers present that descriptive text (“alt-text”) to the online world, meeting key accessibility and discoverability demands.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Sep 10, 2019
  • 6 Comments

Guest Post — Equity is Possible: Forging Paths toward Equity and Anti-Racism in Scholarly Publishing

In this guest post, Gisela Fosado and Cathy Rimer-Surles of Duke UP share highlights and a video from their panel session on equity at the 2019 AUPresses Annual Meeting, plus helpful recommendations to help us achieve equity in scholarly communications.

  • By Gisela Concepción Fosado, Cathy Rimer-Surles
  • Aug 14, 2019
  • 3 Comments

Guest Post — The Problem Solvers You Don’t Know About Yet: Valuing Disability in the Publishing Industry

In this guest post, Katy Alexander (Digital Science), Becky Degler (Wiley) and Simon Holt (Elsevier) explain why the scholarly communications industry would benefit from being more inclusive in its recruitment and development of people with disabilities, highlighting the particular skills they bring to our industry

  • By Simon Holt, Katy Alexander, Becky Degler
  • Jul 29, 2019
  • 10 Comments

Identifying and Responding to Micro-aggressions at Work: An Interview with Dr. Joseph Williams

Dr Joseph Williams, an expert in multicultural and social justice training, is delivering a pre-conference workshop on micro-aggressions at the SSP Annual Meeting. Find out more in this interview!

  • By Alice Meadows
  • May 7, 2019
  • 8 Comments

On Being a Leader Who Happens to Be a Woman of Color: A Conversation with Salina Gray, Raquel Tamez, and Rochelle Williams

What is it like to be a leader who’s a woman of color in a world where senior management is largely dominated by white men? Find out in this conversation with three women of color who are in positions of leadership in scholarly communications and STEM.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • May 2, 2019
  • 16 Comments

A Hidden Diversity in Scholarly Publishing

An awareness of how neurodiverse people in academia and scholarly publishing perceive the world can improve working relationships and help them achieve their potential.

  • By Tim Vines
  • Apr 30, 2019
  • 12 Comments

Guest Post — From Diversity to Inclusion and Equity: Moving Beyond Good Intentions

We are celebrating International Women’s Day with guest Chef Susan Spilka of the Workplace Equity Project, who recently moderated a well-attended SSP webinar on moving from diversity to inclusion and equity, on which her post is based.

  • By Susan Spilka
  • Mar 8, 2019
  • 2 Comments

How-to: Getting to the End of Your Comfort Zone

What topic makes you uncomfortable in our industry? For me, it’s diversity: a subject that impacts me, but that I’ve never been courageous enough to address.

  • By Jasmine Wallace
  • Nov 29, 2018
  • 8 Comments

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