Date and Time: Thursday, October 24, 2024 11:00 (Eastern) | 08:00 (Pacific) | 17:00 (CET) | 16:00 (BST) The field of 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 … Continue reading Forthcoming Webinar: Women Leaders in Scholarly Publishing: Empowering Self and Inspiring Others
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The next C4DISC Community of Practice call will be on October 10, 2024 at 11 am Eastern / 4 pm UK. Time converter link. The theme this time is AI - the aim of this session is to introduce AI in relation to DEIA and have a very broad discussion about the impact on publishing and … Continue reading October 10 Community of Practice Call – AI and DEIA
C4DISC is delighted to welcome Lyrasis as a new Member. “Lyrasis is proud to join the Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC) as a member organization. “Advancing a more diverse and equitable knowledge ecosystem is core to our mission,” said Lyrasis CEO John Wilkin. “We believe that scholarship and society benefit when … Continue reading Welcoming Lyrasis as a C4DISC Member
Produced by the Society for Scholarly Publishing Mental Health Task Force Date and Time: 5 September – 11:00 (Eastern) | 08:00 (Pacific) | 17:00 (CET) | 16:00 (BST) We do our best work when we can bring our full selves to the job. When we feel comfortable taking risks and making mistakes without fear of … Continue reading Webinar: Fostering Psychological Safety in the Workplace: An Intro for Scholarly Publishers
The next C4DISC Community of Practice call will be on August 15, 2024 at 11 am Eastern / 4 pm UK. As we may we have a lighter attendance due to summer, this will be an open call without a specific theme. We will use the time to hear what is going on in each other's … Continue reading August 15 DEIA Community of Practice Call
The next C4DISC Community of Practice call will be on June 13, 2024 at 11 am Eastern / 4 pm UK. The topic will be Accessibility. Time converter link Participants will have breakout room discussions around any aspect of this topic they wish to bring and we will come together for the last part of the call to … Continue reading June 13 DEIA Community of Practice Call – Accessibility
Date and Time: 4 June 09:00-10:30 (Eastern) | 15:00-16:30 (CET) | 14:00-15:30 (BST) You are invited to a webinar on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging (EDIB) in the Institutional Publishing Ecosystem. This joint DIAMAS/C4DISC webinar will be a thought-provoking, 90-minute webinar where the findings of the DIAMAS Institutional Publishing Landscape survey, and the sections of … Continue reading Forthcoming webinar: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging (EDIB) in the Institutional Publishing Ecosystem
C4DISC is delighted to announce the launch of this valuable new resource in the growing C4DISC Toolkit for Equity Series: A Focused Toolkit for Journal Editors and Publishers: Building Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in Editorial Roles and Peer Review (https://c4disc.pubpub.org/toolkit-editors-and-publishers) This new toolkit aims to support all those seeking to build a more inclusive editorial … Continue reading Announcing the Launch of A Focused Toolkit for Journal Editors and Publishers: Building Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in Editorial Roles and Peer Review
Five years after the Workplace Equity Survey (WE Survey) first benchmarked the state of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the global scholarly publishing industry, C4DISC conducted the survey for a second time in 2023. This week, C4DISC releases the Workplace Equity in Scholarly Communications 2023 Executive Summary, the initial analysis of the 2023 data and free-form comments collected across … Continue reading C4DISC Releases Workplace Equity in Scholarly Communications 2023 Executive Summary
C4DISC is delighted to welcome STM as a new Member. “C4DISC’s mission closely aligns with STM’s work in social responsibility, which seeks to create a more equitable, inclusive and sustainable world while advancing trusted research,” STM CEO Caroline Sutton said. “We have already been working to support our members in prioritising diversity, inclusion and accessibility … Continue reading Welcoming STM as a C4DISC Member