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Archives: Diversity

What Have You Done for DEIA Lately?

Are we still doing the work it takes to make positive and impactful change? Are we continuing the work to break down systems, policies, and unwritten industry rules that are no longer fit for purpose?

  • By Dianndra Roberts
  • Feb 24, 2023
  • 9 Comments

Guest Post — Introducing Two New Toolkits to Advance Inclusion in Scholarly Communication: Part 2

Part two of an introduction to two new toolkits from C4DISC — today a look at the Antiracism Toolkit for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.

  • By Kerry Webb
  • Feb 9, 2023
  • 0 Comments

Guest Post — Introducing Two New Toolkits to Advance Inclusion in Scholarly Communication: Part 1

The first of a two part series introducing new toolkits from C4DISC: Guidelines on Inclusive Language and Images in Scholarly Communication and the Antiracism Toolkit for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.

  • By Sabrina Ashwell, Jenny Peng
  • Feb 8, 2023
  • 0 Comments

Smorgasbord: Twitter v. Mastodon; Incentivizing Open Science; DEI v. Involution

Another “mixed bag” post from us — Is it time to leave Twitter? How can we incentivize journals and authors to take up open science practices? What is “involution” and is DEIA the solution?

  • By Angela Cochran, Tim Vines, Tao Tao
  • Nov 3, 2022
  • 6 Comments

Equity, Inclusiveness, and Zero Embargo Public Access

Robert Harington considers whether open and public access models, as they have emerged so far, are delivering us to a more inequitable publishing future as we rush towards openness.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Oct 4, 2022
  • 16 Comments

FORCE11 Engages a Global Audience at FORCE2021

FORCE11 hosts a diverse virtual conference to build global connections to improve scholarly communications.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Dec 15, 2021
  • 0 Comments

Joint Commitment for Action on Inclusion and Diversity in Publishing: An Interview with Laura Norton and Nicola Nugent of the RSC

Laura Norton and Nicola Nugent of the Royal Society of Chemistry answer Alice Meadows’s questions about the RSC’s Joint Commitment for action on inclusion and diversity in publishing

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Apr 21, 2021
  • 2 Comments

In Search of Equity and Justice: Reimagining Scholarly Communication

If we are truly committed to a more equitable and resilient system of scholarly communication, we need to look beyond diversity programs and understand how this watershed moment requires us to reexamine everything, including strategy and business models.

  • By Alison Mudditt
  • Oct 28, 2020
  • 18 Comments

Equity in Scholarly Publishing: An Interview with the Workplace Equity Project

The findings of the Workplace Equity Project’s 2018 survey have recently been published as a peer-reviewed article in Learned Publishing – learn more in this interview with WEP founders Susan Spilka, Simone Taylor, and Jeri Wachter

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Jun 22, 2020
  • 0 Comments

We Step Aside: Why Are There So Few Black Physicists?

We Step Aside: This week The Scholarly Kitchen is spotlighting research and researchers writing about systemic racism. Today’s post comes from the resource of Particles for Justice.

  • By Scholarly Kitchen
  • Jun 10, 2020
  • 4 Comments

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

Will the Future of Scholarly Communication Be Pluralistic and Democratic, or Monocultural and Authoritarian?

One way or another, the #scholcomm community is going to choose either a diversity of publishing models or a monoculture, because it can’t have both. How will this choice be made, and by whom?

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Feb 25, 2020
  • 53 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

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
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