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Archives: SDG Publishers Compact

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)?

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Mar 26, 2026
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post – From Publications to Policy: How Research Is Driving Progress on the SDGs

Today’s guest bloggers share analysis on the relationship between impact and policy during Global Goals Week 2025.

  • By Nicola Jones, Katie Shamash
  • Sep 26, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — Protecting Progress: The Case for Staying Committed to Sustainability in 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.

  • By Rachel Martin
  • Jul 21, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Five Trends In The Publishers-Sustainability Nexus

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.

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Mar 26, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Sustainability: When Being Small Is Big Enough To Create A Legacy

How can smaller publishers support the Sustainable Development Goals?

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Oct 14, 2024
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Putting Research Publications to Work in Tackling the SDGs — 3 Challenges to Publishers

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.

  • By Charlie Rapple
  • Jun 10, 2024
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Navigating the Sustainability Landscape: A New STM Roadmap Provides a Guide to Embedding Sustainability in Publishing 

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.

  • By Rachel Martin
  • Aug 15, 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

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