The IBC Children’s Choice Awards are an exciting shadowing scheme for our IBC Awards, where children act as judges, reading the shortlisted books and voting on their favourites. The scheme aims to engage children in fun reading activities that mirror the IBC Awards process. They have 5 weeks to read and judge the books.
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Since 2024, the European Digital Reading Lab has begun reporting its actions in terms of contributions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), through its commitment to promoting open standards, enhancing accessibility, and developing the digital reading ecosystem.
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The Women in Science Initiatives Hub highlights and supports the research of women scientists across disciplines, providing a global platform to showcase their work and connect with the research community. By running yearly activities that promote visibility, inclusion, and equal opportunities in STEM, the initiatives and the hub contribute to SDG 5 (Gender Equality) and SDG 10 (Reduced Inequalities), while inspiring future generations of women in science.
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The Rising Star Hub supports young scientists, featuring ‘Conversations with Science’s Leading Minds’, inspirational interviews with established scientists and Nobel Laureates offering advice, mentorship, and real-world perspectives. It also highlights initiatives providing mentorship, hands-on opportunities, visibility, and open science practices, supporting SDG 4 (Quality Education) and SDG 10 (Reduced Inequalities), empowering young researchers to engage in the global research community.
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As a signatory of the UN SDG Publishers Compact, IntechOpen is committed to accelerating progress toward the SDGs by promoting open access research and by implementing sustainable practices across the organisation. The SDG Hub is a centralised space showcasing our sustainability efforts, including publishing programmes, responsible practices and processes, climate action, and organisational initiatives.
The hub contributes to SDG 4 (Quality Education) and promotes action across all 17 SDGs.
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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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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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The 18th EASE General Assembly and Conference “Editing in the age of misinformation” hybrid (in-person and online) conference was in Oslo on 14–16 May 2025 and featured dynamic content comprising sessions, pre-conference workshops, and speakers from around the world. This a format for future conferences, since it helped reduce travel-related emissions. Further, conference related activities involved planting 194 trees via the EASE Global Forest initiative instead of distributing delegate gifts,
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To foster both quality education in college STEM classrooms with teaching assistants (TAs) as well as the career development and skills of TAs themselves, JMBE held a special call for papers on TA professional development, organized by senior editor Jeffrey Olimpo. The resulting article collection covers a variety of topics like TA program development, assessments, and mentoring, relevant in numerous educational communities and contexts globally, to ensure graduates have the knowledge they need.
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APACE (Accelerating Publishing Accessibility through Collaboration in Europe) is a network promoting inclusion for 100M+ print-impaired people in Europe by connecting publishers and accessibility organizations. It builds industry capacity via training, a Summer School, networking, awareness events, and pilot projects, aligned with the EU Accessibility Act. Results (guidelines, best practices, whitepapers) will be shared through the European Accessibility Directory.
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These microsites serve as a jumping off point for SDG resources to identify key information, data, authors, and journals publishing on these topics. The microsites include a range of journal articles, special collections, books, business cases, and podcasts that reflect Sage’s dedication to making an impact both inside and outside of academia.
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Brought to you by the EASE Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, this presentation asks us to think about what it means to work and write in the field of trans studies, with a focus on cisgender people. What does it mean to create meaningful collaborations with trans people. What forms of relationships with communities are essential to formulating research questions and undertaking ethical research?
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Global Social Challenges Journal responds directly to the SDGs, encompassing co-production and engaging with innovative and critical perspectives, including decolonial and southern epistemologies and their relationship with those of the Global North. By publishing Open Access evidence-based, collaborative work in the collective interest through a non-profit university press, the journal enables the sharing of knowledge needed to build a fairer world, across and for the Global South and North.
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Bristol University Press (BUP), the mission-driven, not-for-profit academic publisher, released its Impact Report, showcasing the Press’s role in advancing global knowledge and public policy around the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The report highlights a year of transformative publishing, widespread open access engagement and growing international influence.
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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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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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