HarperCollins UK is relaunching the HarperCollins Author and Design Academy, which offers free training to writers and designers from Black, Asian, and minority ethnic backgrounds to help them gain the knowledge and skills to succeed in the publishing sector.
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HarperCollins and News Corp have partnered to offer employees enrollment in the Carbonauts’ Sustainability Bootcamp, an engaging six-week program where you’ll discover the fundamentals of sustainable living and how to apply them in your own life.
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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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WIPO hosted “Right to Read” Conference on the topic of the Marrakesh Treaty and the Accessible Books Consortium in Sydney, Australia for representatives of government and blindness associations from the Pacific Islands. Ms. Maryanne Diamond, a key negotiator on behalf of the World Blind Union in Morocco, where the Marrakesh Treaty was adopted in 2013 gave the keynote address on the first day.
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HarperCollins UK plants a tree for every new starter, working with Trees for Life, a rewilding charity based in Scotland, committed to creating large-scale environmental change in the Scottish Highlands. They plant a tree alongside other native trees that will in time transform open Scottish hillsides into healthy young woodland helping to restore the Caledonian forest.
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The new HarperCollins facility in Robroyston, Glasgow, including distribution center and offices, is due to open in 2025 and is being built with sustainability in mind. The site is being built to BREEAM ‘very good’ standard – this means it will be operating to a high standard on areas including energy and water usage, pollution, waste and ecology. Features will include solar panels, rain water recycled for bathrooms, and landscaping that will promote the local ecosystem.
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Saving nearly 200 metric tons of carbon emissions in fiscal 2023 through HarperCollins UK’s transporting of books from Europe to the U.K. by rail instead of trucks.
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25 volunteers from HarperCollins UK joined forces with charity CleanupUK to go on a litter pick at Southwark Park near our offices in the News Building. The team collected 28 bags of refuse, making the park a safer and cleaner space for the local community and wildlife.
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HarperCollins employees proudly support the Arbor Day Foundation and its mission to plant more trees, voting to fund the restoration of Boise National Forest after the Pioneer Wildfire burned 190K acres in 2016. The donation will plant new ponderosa pine and Douglas fir seedlings for reforestation, benefiting wildlife and future generations. We also supported sustainable forestry in the Amazon Rainforest and Trees for School Forests in Michigan. In total, our donation will plant over 24K trees.
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HarperCollins proudly supports Pajama Program, a nonprofit that ensures children have access to healthy sleep by providing new pajamas, storybooks and sleep health education. The program helps children facing challenges like low income, housing insecurity, and family instability develop better bedtime habits, which improves school performance, health, and emotional well-being. HarperCollins employees volunteered to teach children in the Bronx about healthy bedtime routines and donated books.
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HarperCollins UK’s Our Little Big Book Club, an in-school family reading club targeting children struggling with literacy by enabling them to choose the books they read at home with their families expanded to reach, now reaches over 900 children in 98 schools around the country.
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In Sydney, HarperCollins Australia adopted sustainable design principles in their office relocation, using high-recycled-content materials from local suppliers, installing sensor lighting, and donating two tons of surplus office supplies.
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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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PublisHer in collaboration with the NYU School of Professional Studies Centre for Publishing and Applied Liberal Arts and United Nations Publications hosted the inaugural North American PublisHer event. The event convened industry experts to discuss how the publishing sector is uniquely positioned to support and advance women in publishing, with a focus on Sustainable Development Goals 5, gender equality. The event was followed by a networking reception.
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PublisHer celebrates the remarkable achievements of women in the publishing industry as they pave the way for a brighter and more inclusive future. The PublisHer Excellence Awards have been created with a three-fold mission to; celebrate women’s professional achievements, champion diversity, equity, and inclusion and promote professional development. The awards have multiple categories covering a lifetime achievement aware, innovation award and emerging leader.
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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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This special collection of mSystems articles provides an in-depth look into how microbial science contributes important perspectives and understanding to the realization of several United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This curated collection sheds light on the diverse ways that microbial systems can enhance our understanding and help us make progress towards the SDGs.
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Our microbiome can be impacted by the details of our lifestyle, including diet, hygiene, health status, and more, but many are driven by social, economic, medical, or political constraints that restrict available choices that may impact our health. This collection of mSystems articles highlights recent investigations into beneficial and detrimental instances of microbial exposure, in the context of how social policy may mediate or deepen disparities between and within populations.
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