A free, practical guide on how to produce books that are accessible to all readers, including people with print disability. The guide covers each stage of the publishing process: planning, developing content, describing images, and producing accessible books. It incorporates advice from specialists including publishers and researchers working across digital, audio, tactile and print formats; individuals with print disability; and writers and editors across all publishing genres.
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The IOP for Environmental Change campaign is designed to raise colleague awareness, share knowledge and inspire action of our environmental impact as individuals and an organisation. Through the Giki tool, colleagues took on a shared challenge to cut a tonne of carbon from their personal footprints, supported by guest talks from a broad range of experts that offer practical insights on climate action and encourage collective steps toward meaningful change.
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STM have released a draft taxonomy to support accessible publishing, with a focus on helping authors and publishers write better image descriptions (alt text). Not only does it help prepare for the upcoming ADA Title II update (coming into effect April 2026), it also supports our shared goal of making scholarly content more inclusive and available to all.
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Ebook technologies have reached a mature, stage, but digital production teams must coordinate diverse expertise to stay competitive while addressing accessibility, environmental impact, data protection, and interoperability. “The digital book quality reference list” – is a quality assurance framework created by and for the digital publishing industry, designed to support both day‑to‑day production and long‑term skills development across the publishing sector.
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These Top Action Tips are a guide for academic authors on how to write plain language summaries or bullets tailored to professionals and practitioners, to support and promote necessary connections for sustainable development.
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Annoy Prakash is regularly working to create reading societies in remote areas with the aim of developing a developed and conscious community. In this regard, our activities include distributing free books to school students by involving local libraries/schools (Our library is our regular partner.), organizing book reading competitions among students, and preparing ourselves to become educated and conscious citizens in the future.
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Since establishing its Environment & Sustainability (E&S) Committee in 2021, the European Association of Science Editors (EASE) has aligned its activities with key UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The poster “Greener Conferences: EASE-ing into Sustainability” outlines the Association’s practical measures for reducing environmental impact and enhancing equity at its events.
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Every digital article hosted, accessed, and cited online carries a measurable carbon cost. While the transition from print to digital has vastly improved global access to research, it has also introduced a new kind of environmental impact — one that often goes unseen. The STM Digital Carbon Calculator, built on DIMPACT methodology, enables publishers to measure the carbon emissions associated with their digital content and better understand their digital footprint.
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Community of Support – Integrating Sustainability into Higher Education and Society
Would you like to learn from others and gain access to additional resources and strategies? This community is brought to you in collaboration with the University World News. This group will help publishers, researchers, educators, policymakers and practitioners learn from each other to increase the success of their own efforts and get support. To be invited, go to https://forms.gle/w4mhaj2QR8RdZeVX6
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Achieving the SDGs requires collective effort and STM’s SDG Level 3 highlights how academic publishers can meaningfully advance all 17 goals by focusing on the targets that drive change. This level and resource articulates how academic publishers contribute to key SDGs and the 169 targets by exploring real-world case studies showcasing impactful actions from across the industry and highlighting earlier levels for valuable tips and resources.
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The Journal of Research in Educational Sciences is an editorial project by ASERS Publishing, established in 2010, which highlights the results and impact of using technology and innovation in education research. This initiative maps the alignment of the Journal with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 3, 4, and 5, showcasing the journal’s contribution to research addressing key global challenges. The exercise was a collaborative effort between our researchers and the publishing team.
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The Journal of Environmental Management and Tourism, a collaborative editorial project of ASERS Publishing, aims to publish scientific articles of high academic quality that contribute to understanding sustainability and assessing broader societal impact through the lens of the SDGs for readers, collaborators, and editors alike. It is designed to share research findings and to stimulate new ideas and valuable insights regarding current best practices and future directions of SDGs 11 and 13.
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Theoretical and Practical Research in Economic Fields, an initiative of ASERS Publishing, aims to challenge economists to address issues relevant to the current global situation and to publish articles that innovatively connect ideas from various branches of Economics. It serves as a forum for the dissemination of a variety of international issues, scientific research, and other matters of interest to academics from diverse fields related to economic sciences, and to promote SDG’s 8 and 9.
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This cross-journal collection gathers scientific publications that focus on measuring advancements in sustainability. The work showcased provides insight into the benefits and trade-offs of different methods, models, and metrics, supporting readers and authors to measure, compare, and describe the advantages and disadvantages of introducing green chemistry principles and approaches in their work. The collection is intended as a guide and accessible resource for the whole chemistry community.
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In this digital database, students and educators alike can freely access all material published under the More&More Fame English Practice brand. This includes material targeted at all students, beginning from age 4 to high school. Students and educators can freely access and use the digital versions of all our published works, complete with interactive activities, different printable exams, worksheets, and stories, practice and workbooks, picture and story books, animated videos, and much more.
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In support of Princeton University Press’ commitment to equitable and inclusive publishing, Supporting Diverse Voices grants offer historically underrepresented scholars around the globe the opportunity to develop a book proposal with one of the its partnering book coaches. Each grantee also has a PUP editor who works with both authors and coaches throughout the process. These grants ensure that this early stage support is available to the greatest diversity of prospective authors.
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The new program has three parts. The first will be a carbon footprint calendar to be created in the form of a digital platform, allowing publishers to measure the carbon emissions of each work published. A life-cycle analysis is next, monitoring “the individual trajectory of two printed works and their digital environment, in an attempt to support decision-making and modes by which environmental performance can be improved. Finally training will be the third and final element.
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We host multidisciplinary, multimedia SDG related content on our SDG Programme page. This includes 17 SDG ‘hubs’, one for each goal, as well as highlights of SDG related events hosted by Springer Nature, blogposts and campaigns. We also feature the Nature Portfolio multi-journal SDG collection to make it easy for researchers and others to find and use the SDG research and information they need.
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