How Can Scholarly Publishing Overcome Its ‘SDG Inertia’?
Is there an inertia slowing efforts by scholarly publishers toward achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?
Is there an inertia slowing efforts by scholarly publishers toward achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?
Today’s guest bloggers share analysis on the relationship between impact and policy during Global Goals Week 2025.
Level 3 of STM’s SDG roadmap has launched, reminding us that academic publishers have both the responsibility & opportunity to be catalysts for positive, global change.
In this article, I present five specific developments which may give us an idea how the relationship between sustainability and scholarly publishers is changing over time.
How can smaller publishers support the Sustainable Development Goals?
Research publications contain the answers to some of the world’s most pressing challenges. But to realize that potential, more people need to find, understand and act on them.
The STM Association has launched an SDG roadmap. It is a list of suggested steps to provide inspiration and pathways to navigate the sustainability initiatives and actions that publishers and societies can undertake.