HarperCollins and Amistad donate to the Hurston/Wright Foundation, which provides services, supports and opportunities that mentor, recognize and provide community for professional and aspiring Black writers.
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- Type of initiative: Other
- SECTOR: Academic, Trade
- Type of initiative: Event
- SECTOR: Academic
At an event held during the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM) Reception in October, Research4Life gathered key publishing leaders to recommit to its mission of building an inclusive, diverse, and equitable scholarly environment. The event highlighted the critical role of publishers in closing global knowledge gaps and advancing the SDGs, serving as a renewed call for publishers to join the mission and support its sustainability.
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- Type of initiative: Best practice
- SECTOR: Academic, Other, Trade
The Journal of Bacteriology (JB) is piloting a double-anonymized peer review option. Double-anonymized peer review is when the author(s) and the reviewers do not know each other’s identities. By including this option the journal aims to provide a more equitable and representative scholarly publication process by reducing bias with respect to gender, race, country of origin, or affiliation.
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- Type of initiative: Event
- SECTOR: Academic
Collins staff in Glasgow volunteered at charity Refuweegee, a News Corp Giving recipient, to help set up the new Refuweegee shop where refugees new to the city can access clothing, household items, entertainment items, food, and toiletries, all free of charge
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- Type of initiative: Training
- SECTOR: Academic, Trade
HarperCollins UK launched two new initiatives to recruit from underrepresented backgrounds: the Marketing Manager Program for talented individuals from ethnic minority backgrounds with marketing experience, and the Socioeconomic Traineeship designed to bring in talent from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds.
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- Type of initiative: Training
- SECTOR: Academic
HarperCollins UK announced the launch of Book Squad, a new collaboration between Collins, HarperCollins Children’s Books, Farshore, and Barrington Stoke. Aiming to support reading for pleasure in primary schools, it will provide free unique content about children’s literature, in-depth research, reading recommendations, and free resources
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- Type of initiative: Best practice
- SECTOR: Academic
This new toolkit aims to support all those seeking to build a more inclusive editorial and reviewer community. The toolkit recommends practical and relevant actions for editors and publishers to take to create broad representation on editorial boards and to ensure fairness and minimization of bias in the peer review process. Translations of this toolkit in Spanish and Portuguese will be coming soon.
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- Cat// Gender equality, Quality education
- Type of initiative: Event
- SECTOR: Academic
This online webinar recognises that scholarly publishing faces significant challenges related to DEIA, and gender is one critical dimension that demands attention. While women are in many roles within publishing, there are too few leading publishing houses. Improvement is needed, and this session focuses on the role of women in leadership. In an area where we know gender disparities persist, it is heartening to recognize that women are at the forefront, leading the way in various roles.
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- Cat// Climate action, Life on land
- Type of initiative: Report
- SECTOR: Academic, Education
Geosciences are foundational to achieving the SDGs because they provide methods, tools, and technologies that can be applied to finding practical solutions to major problems facing our planet and its population. “Geoscience in Action: Advancing Sustainable Development” is a special report co-published by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and UNESCO demonstrating how geoscientists’ knowledge, skills, and competencies can be used to advance every one of the SDGs.
Relevant SDG’s
- Cat// Climate action, Sustainable cities and communities
- Type of initiative: Industry standard, Other, Tool
- SECTOR: Academic, Other
The Green Communication and Publishing Manifesto, launched by Green Transformation and Sustainability Network, urges publishers, other sectors and individuals to align their publishing and communication activities with the SDGs, particularly in climate action, biodiversity, and clean energy. It seeks to inspire the Vietnamese and global publishing sector to drive meaningful environmental action, promote truth, and collaborate for a sustainable future. The Manifesto will be updated as necessary.
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- Cat// Partnerships for the goals
- Type of initiative: Best practice
- SECTOR: Academic
Level 2 – focused on “Gaining Traction” of STM’s SDG Roadmap. Designed to inspire and support, this roadmap strives to equip colleagues across our sector by matching the practical steps with a dedicated toolkit of resources and examples to get everyone to take action towards achieving the SDGs today.
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- Cat// Climate action, Decent work and economic growth
- Type of initiative: Event
- SECTOR: Academic
Our Annual Meeting format plan—alternating annually between virtual and in-person meetings—represents positive climate action and equitable learning opportunities for member press staff. Our virtual meetings lessen the impact of global travel and lower cost barriers to participation. At in-person conferences, we decrease materials usage with online-only programs and linen-less banquet tables, and we ask attendees to bring their own tote bags rather than manufacturing new ones.
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- Cat// Quality education, Responsible consumption and production
- Type of initiative: Best practice, Industry standard, Other, Research
- SECTOR: Academic
The Elgar Companions to the Sustainable Development Goals book series is an extensive collection of specially commissioned original reference books across the social sciences, law, business and management edited by leading scholars working on the SDGs in these areas. Each book acts as a call to action, feature cutting-edge research and written with a global readership in mind.
Relevant SDG’s
- Cat// Decent work and economic growth, Peace, justice and strong institutions
- Type of initiative: Best practice, Report, Research, Tool, Training
- SECTOR: Academic, Education
With the aim of fostering Responsible Governance and Inclusive Peace, Globethics develops one of its main Series/book collections with publications on the topic. One of its last instances has been the trilogy “Global Survey on Business Ethics”, edited by Dr. Bryan Robinson and Dr. Georges Enderle. Thit trilogy is the result of a sharp academic work on business good practice and responsible leadership from a multifaceted and international perspective.
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- Cat// Quality education
- Type of initiative: Event, Tool, Training
- SECTOR: Academic, Education
In 2021, Globethics, in collaboration with IRAFPA (Institut de Recherche et d’Action sur la Fraude et le Plagiat Académiques), started collaborating to develop a book Series focused on SDG 4, Quality Education. The focus of the initiative was to develop cutting-edge research and publications on the matter of Academic Fraud and Plagiarism, something undermining the ethics and quality of education at a large scale nowadays. As of 2024 we have published 3 volumes, with a fourth already planned.
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- Cat// Affordable and clean energy, Climate action
- Type of initiative: Best practice, Event, Research, Training
- SECTOR: Academic, Education
This forum serves as a fertile ground for sowing the seeds of change and nurturing the growth of Green Sciences in alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Our focus encompasses a spectrum of critical areas: from the conservation of biodiversity to the innovative reduction of CO2 emissions, from sustainable urban living to the development of renewable energy sources. These pillars of Green Science are essential in steering our planet towards a more sustainable & resilient future.
Relevant SDG’s
- Cat// Industry, innovation and infrastructure, Quality education
- Type of initiative: Other
- SECTOR: Academic
STM champions technologists, companies and start-ups that advance trusted research — the changemakers leveraging technology and innovation to accelerate scholarly communications in positive ways — to better serve the academic community. The annual STM Innovator Fair, part of STM Innovation & Integrity Days gives a platform for the latest innovations to present their concepts and receive feedback that will shape the next generation of technology that will deliver trusted knowledge
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- Cat// Gender equality, Reduced inequalities
- Type of initiative: Other
- SECTOR: Academic, Other, Trade
Through the intentional efforts of EIC Jack Gilbert to balance gender representation, the ASM journal mSystems is proud to announce that it has made significant progress toward gender parity on its Board of Editors for the term starting in July 2024. 49.2% of mSystems Editors identify as women, up from 39.8% in the previous term year. Representation matters. We hope this leads to more woman submitting to and publishing in mSystems.
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