These Top Action Tips are designed to empower stakeholders in the scholarly community to support and promote equity, diversity and inclusion in research and publishing.
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Make your SDG related action count!
Turning the Page supports the UN campaign of 1 Million Actions for Our Common Future.
These Top Action Tips are designed to empower stakeholders in the scholarly community to support and promote equity, diversity and inclusion in research and publishing.
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Beginning in September 2022, the Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI) convened meetings of members of a Joint Task Force on Outcomes and Impacts (JTFOI). The membership of the JTFOI is drawn from two HESI Action Groups: Ratings, Rankings and Assessment (RRA) and SDG Publishers Compact Fellows (SDGPCF).
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The SDG Rubric (SDGR) is a tool to evaluate textbooks and related educational materials for their coverage of the UN SDGS. It gives authors and educators the ability to identify specific areas that can be more inclusive of, and better aligned with, the SDGs.
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SDG indicator taxonomy for solution-oriented research output that allows for direct application to societal and environmental interventions.
Objective:
To encourage scholarly publishing venues and research institutions in adopting the SDG indicator taxonomy for solution-oriented research output that allows for direct application to societal and environmental interventions to mitigate climate change, forced migration, war and conflict, and other existential crises of our times.
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Through Wiley’s partnership with Trees for the Future, a tree gets planted for every copy of a journal we actively stop printing. We surpassed our goal of one million trees planted by May 2024. In calendar year 2023 alone, we funded 470,492 trees planted, 376 forest gardens, 376 farmers being trained, and 3,011 family beneficiaries.
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This practical, hands-on workshop convened by the Higher Education Sustainability Initiative SDG Publishers Compact Fellows, the Open Climate Campaign, and OpenPharma explored how to make research more accessible to non-academic audiences. It included practical advice and a worked example for researchers of how to write for non-expert readers, sharing the practical implications of their work in plain language.
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The HESI SDG Publishers Compact Fellows were invited to take part in the OpenPharma Summit: A new vision for pharma communications. In this recorded short presentation, we explore how plain language summaries (PLS) of research help practitioners, policymakers and the public find answers to today’s challenges and what publishers, authors and other stakeholders can do to make progress.
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The climate target set by Wiley to reach net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2040 has been validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). Wiley’s commitment to these science-based targets signifies the company’s dedication to act on the urgent need to address climate change.
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Wiley’s new SDGs website recognizes the importance and interdisciplinary nature of all 17 SDGs. It’s a dynamic hub where cutting-edge research meets real-world impact. Each of the 17 SDGs has its own page, with curated content from our journals, topical collections and special issues, books and major reference works. You can also learn about Wiley’s ESG actions and goals, and authors can find a home for their SDG research in an open special issue or a journal, or send us SDG book proposals.
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Recycle EVERYTHING Month proved to be a triumph!
The Wiley Australia Community & Social Responsibility Committee rallied our Brisbane, Melbourne, and remote teams for a month-long endeavor dedicated to recycling and donating goods.
The result? Over 275lbs of items were collected across all our offices.
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Wiley’s 10 ERGs enhance our inclusive and welcoming workplace; they build community, celebrate culture, and advocate for our diverse communities. We position our ERGs to be strong advocates for the colleague perspective and proactively partner with them when evaluating and rolling out new policies,
processes, and practices. Senior leaders engage with our ERGs through our ERG Champions program. We match each ERG with executive and senior leaders who serve as mentors, allies, and advocates.
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In November 2024, multiple prominent scholarly publishers joined together in a call to action for the global community and governments to take immediate, decisive steps toward avoiding climate catastrophe. This joint editorial, published across multiple leading journals, identifies microbe-based solutions to pursue and globally coordinated strategies for implementing them at scale, emphasizing that science must be at the forefront of the global response to the climate crisis.
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