Upcoming Member and Partner Events
The following events are hosted by C4DISC Members and Partners. Please contact c4disc@gmail.com if you are a C4DISC Member or Partner and have an upcoming diversity, equity, or inclusion-themed event you would like to have posted.
Past Events
Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications – Integrating Values around DEIA and Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs)
Wednesday, July 9, 2025 | 11:00 am-12:00 pm ET
In today’s global landscape, the scholarly publishing industry is increasingly recognizing the imperative of integrating values centered around Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA), and sustainability, including the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), into their organizational frameworks. It is essential that the publishing industry and publishing process better reflect the multiple dimensions of diversity within the research community and ensure representation of the very often marginalized or vulnerable communities who are most impacted by SDG-relevant research.
This session will explore the mechanisms and strategies employed by organizations to incorporate these values into their objectives and activities. Drawing upon the lens of DEI, organizations establish DEIA liaisons and foster communities of practice to ensure diverse perspectives are considered at all levels. Furthermore, the designation of sustainability champions within an organization can facilitate the alignment of business strategies with environmental and social responsibility goals, within and outside the organization. From the perspectives of three organizations, this session will underscore the significance of integrating these values into organizational structures, highlighting the various ways of fostering innovation, resilience, and positive societal impact.
Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications | Bridging Intergenerational Experiences
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
11:00am – 12:00pm EST
The majority of today’s workforce come from four generations: Boomers, Generation X, Millennials, and Generation Z. The differences among experiences, communication styles, and values common to each generation can lead to misunderstandings and create conflict on the job. So how can we cooperate across generations to best foster an inclusive, cohesive work environment?
Join us for a panel discussion and an audience Q&A as we explore generational experiences within the workplace, focusing on how diverse generational identities and life stages influence and shape workplace cultures and dynamics. We’ll discuss themes around recruitment, communication, stereotypes, and generational perspectives and values.
C4DISC Rapid Response Sprint, February 13 2025
Thursday, February 13, 2025
9 am – 4 pm EST
The Steering Committee would like to invite you to participate in a Rapid Response Sprint on Thursday, February 13. See below for details.
Purpose: To assemble resources and provide support to C4DISC member and partner organizations and community members as they respond to the current political landscape around DEIA work.
Format: This will be a day-long, drop-in sprint (Thursday, 2/13, 9am-4pm ET). There will be an agenda of activities and designated facilitators for each one. Participants can come for as much or as little of the day as they want. Community members interested in contributing who can’t make it to the sprint can still sign up to be included in a pool of volunteers to tackle action items coming out of the sprint.
How it will work: If you’re interested in participating, please fill out the Google Form. We will send you the call-in link and the agenda as it comes together. You can drop in at any point during the day based on your availability and interest.
Agenda: The agenda is still in development, but it will definitely include the following work:
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Drafting a communication highlighting existing C4DISC resources that may be of use to community members at this time.
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Beginning work on a resource for professional member communities (like the members of C4DISC), drawing from our existing Toolkits for Equity.
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Best practices for responding to current events at the federal, state, and local levels.
Questions? Email c4disc@gmail.com
Webinar: Women Leaders in Scholarly Publishing: Empowering Self and Inspiring Others
Thursday, October 24, 2024
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 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.
Our speakers occupy key leadership positions across different domains within scholarly publishing. We cordially invite you to join us to engage with this panel of women leaders. Our primary goal is to inspire and empower others within the industry by sharing experiences and insights. We hope to encourage more women to follow in these remarkable footsteps.
Moderated by Anjana Sankara Narayanan, Acquisitions Editor, Standards, ASCE
Speakers: Roohi Ghosh, Ambassador, Researcher Outreach, Engagement, and Success, Cactus Communications, Sarah Phibbs, STM’s Director of Research4Life Publisher Partnerships, Mia Ricci, Director, Publications Operations, American Geophysical Union (AGU) and Simone Taylor, Chief of Publishing Operations, American Psychiatric Association
Webinar: Fostering Psychological Safety in the Workplace: An Intro for Scholarly Publishers
Produced by the Society for Scholarly Publishing Mental Health Task Force
5 September
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 humiliation or punishment, we’re more likely to find satisfaction at work and—in turn—to perform better. These ideas are central to the concept of psychological safety, and fostering that safety is key in building a productive, fulfilling work environment.
Join us to gain a detailed understanding of psychological safety at work: what it looks like, why it matters, and how to facilitate it. We’ll discuss how individuals within various levels in an organization’s structure can contribute, how to address psychologically unsafe environments, and how a DEI-informed approach can support an organization’s goals around inclusivity.
Moderated by Sarah Bay, Scientific Editor and Program Manager, Genetics Society of America
Speakers: Alisa C.D. Clark, Head of DEI for Cell Press, Elsevier and Dennis P. Stolle Senior Director of Applied Psychology, American Psychological Association
Produced by the Society for Scholarly Publishing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Committee.
Webinar: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging (EDIB) in the Institutional Publishing Ecosystem
4 June 2024
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 the DIAMAS Extensible Quality Standard in Institutional Publishing (EQSIP) and Toolsuite and Guidelines, concerning gender and accessibility will be presented. The Webinar will also provide insights into developments in EDIB in scholarly publishing from C4DISC. There will be time for questions.
13th GW Ethics in Publishing Conference
October 12, 2023
Chhavi Chuahan, Co-chair, Workplace Equity Survey and Anne Stone, Committee member lead a session about progress in diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility across scholarly communications.
OASPA Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing
19 -21 September 2023
Malavika Legge presented findings from this year’s workshops on Equity on Open Access and invited input from attendees.
ALPSP Conference 2023: Building an Inclusive Workplace Culture, 13 September 2023
ALPSP Conference 2023: Diversity in Commissioning, 14 September 2023
C4DISC WEBINAR
Demographic Information in Peer Review Systems: Challenges and Solutions
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Insufficient representation among editorial leadership, editorial boards, authors, and reviewers remains a key barrier to promoting an inclusive and equitable scholarly publishing industry (Buchanan, et al., 2021; Hanson, et al., 2020; Roberts, et al., 2020; & Roh, et al., 2020). The systematic exclusion of groups including Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), women, gender non-conforming people, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and members of the disability community from scholarly communications is harmful to both the integrity of the scientific review and publication process and to those individuals’ careers (Roh & Inefuku, 2016). Collecting, measuring, and using demographic data to improve these gaps in representation are important mechanisms for enabling an equitable and inclusive scholarly publishing environment. This session will offer perspectives from several scholarly publishing professionals about how their organizations are collecting and using author and reviewer demographic information to improve representation and inclusion in the peer review and publication process. Speakers will address questions around challenges and solutions for collecting demographic data; they will also offer actions for addressing, measuring, and mitigating bias in peer review to create a more socially just science. Demographics differ by country and region, and so this session will offer global perspectives on these issues. Sponsored by SSP’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee.
Moderator: Rebecca (Becs) Kirk, PLOS
Speakers:
Holly Falk-Krzesinski, Elsevier
Dan Rogers, Oxford University Press
Alex Mendonça, SciELO
Combined slides can be found here .
C4DISC WEBINAR
Antiracism Toolkit for Organizations
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
Building equity and promoting antiracism at organizations are not the jobs of specific individuals but are collective responsibilities. This webinar will explore C4DISC’s “Antiracism Toolkit for Organizations,” written by a multiracial group of industry professionals. The toolkit is intended to help individuals at all levels within scholarly publishing organizations implement inclusive policies, procedures, and norms.
Join us to explore this tool for organizations to understand institutionalized racism, to better support staff who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), and to better serve BIPOC authors, readers, and reviewers.
Moderator: Jocelyn Dawson, Journals and Collections Marketing Manager, Duke University Press
Speakers:
Jamaal Thompson, Vice President of Strategic Projects, Panorama Education
Erin Landis, Managing Director, Origin Editorial
C4DISC WEBINAR
Ensuring Equitable Participation In Open Science
October 21, 2021
Open access and open science are attempts to ensure knowledge is as widely accessible as possible. More and more publishers are launching open access journals and embracing open science principles. Questions remain, however, as to whether open access and open science are currently accessible to all. The most visible notions of open access and open science are primarily founded in—and have perpetuated—the values and standards established by organizations, institutions, and funders in Western Europe and North America. Open access and open science can therefore continue to exclude the very researchers that these models are supposed to benefit. For example, business models like article processing charges do not account for unequal access to funding. Other issues not specific to open access are exclusionary English-language style standards and unconscious bias in the peer review process.
In this webinar, we will explore how models of openness have not always resolved, and in some instances may have created, inequitable barriers for some researchers. We will unpack the impact of those barriers on researchers and propose some ways to overcome them.
C4DISC WEBINAR
Intersectionality: Considering Identity When Working Towards a More Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Future
Tuesday, June 15, 2021
As individuals, we are never just one identity, and the concept of intersectionality highlights how multiple, overlapping identities—for example, race, class, gender, and sexuality—contribute to the ways in which marginalized groups of people experience discrimination. In this webinar, we’ll ask how this layering of identities impacts our experience of and contribution to our working environment. Join us as we explore what intersectionality means, how it can shape our professional experience, and what we can do to better support ourselves and our colleagues.
Moderator: Laura Martin, Senior Project and Change Manager at Wiley
Speakers:
Axelle Ahanhanzo, Customer Success Manager at Elsevier
Andolyn Medina, Naval office
Derek Victor, cisgender, white, queer, disabled educator, writer and activist
C4DISC WEBINAR
Quiet Leadership: Discovering the New Strategic Advantage and the Hidden Talent in Your Organization
Wednesday, March 3, 2021
“A leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind,” wrote Nelson Mandela in his autobiography. In the United States, leadership is closely connected to charisma and visibility. If you are not visible, you are not a leader. In many other parts of the world, especially in Asian cultures, leadership is not about being visible. It is the opposite: quietly doing your work and assuming that rewards will come. Can tacit assumptions about leadership lead to different outcomes regarding who occupies top leadership positions in corporate America and other organizations? What is the reason that despite founding one-fourth of firms in Silicon Valley during the technology boom, Asian Americans are still perceived as not “leadership material?” The evidence suggests that Asian Americans, a mere 5% of the U.S population, have contributed a significantly high proportion of entrepreneurs and innovators. But they practice a form of quiet or invisible leadership because of an unconscious, deep–rooted cultural assumption that leadership is about enabling and empowering, not about bringing attention to oneself and shining. Based on Dr. Thatchenkery’s new book on this topic, the talk will highlight the leadership contributions of Asian Americans in organizational settings. It will show that empowering such invisible leaders can create meaningful and positive change in organizations.
Speaker: Dr. Tojo Thatchenkery, George Mason University