The National Information Standards Organization's newly-formed DEI Committee needs your help! NISO is planning a virtual workshop to identify and prioritize concrete actions that NISO can take to support and increase diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the information community. Please help us shape the agenda by completing this short survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NISO-DEI. Iit should only take … Continue reading NISO DEI&A Survey
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April 28, 2021 The Council for Science Editors (CSE) will be hosting their annual meeting between Friday, April 30 and Monday, May 10. There are some events that will focus exclusively on DEI. Meeting Sessions Fostering Diversity and Inclusion for Editorial Boards and Publishing LeadershipDiversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) RoundtableThe Accessibility Imperative Short Course Short … Continue reading CSE Annual Meeting–DEI Highlights
April 15, 2021 | Talea Anderson The goal of this resource is to support scholarly communication librarians wanting to implement accessibility measures in their open access, open education, and open data initiatives. To be clear, this resource isn’t a how-to manual for achieving accessibility. I would join others in arguing that accessibility isn’t a thing … Continue reading Accessibility Case Studies for Scholarly Communication Librarians and Practitioners
April 22, 2021 | Boardroom MiniCourses There are many people with hearing loss, and you might be surprised how many could be among your colleagues. Making video conferences more accessible for deaf and hard of hearing people helps actually everyone to minimize fatigue, as explains Dr. Christian Vogler in this MiniCourse, sponsored by Destination DC. … Continue reading Make Your Virtual Meetings More Accessible
The Inclusive Language and Image Guidelines for Scholarly Communications Working Group is calling for volunteers to join their team. The Inclusive Language and Image Guidelines Working Group will assess current practices across the industry and will then develop guidelines to help all authors, editors, and reviewers recognize the use of language and images that are … Continue reading Call for Volunteers: Inclusive Language and Image Guidelines for Scholarly Communications Working Group
April 29, 2021 | NASIG Join us for an hour of conversation to hear about some of the recent work NASIG’s Equity & Inclusion Committee has been engaged in and how different academic institutions are supporting DEI initiatives in their libraries. The panel will feature Moon Kim and Ilda Cardenas of the E&I committee along … Continue reading DEI Initiatives in Academic Libraries
March 29, 2021 | C4DISC The Coalition for Diversity & Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC) stands with our global Asian and Pacific Islander (API) community. We recognize that racism, xenophobia, and discrimination are not new to the API community and that the community has seen a devastating increase in hate crimes around the world since … Continue reading C4DISC Statement on Anti-Asian Violence
March 18, 2021 | AUPresses When Lee & Low Books reprised their groundbreaking Diversity Baseline Survey of the US publishing sector in 2019 (DBS 2.0), the Association of University Presses (AUPresses) recruited more than 30 publishers from among our US membership to help form a wider industry pool. The DBS 2.0 report was published in early 2020 … Continue reading University Press Numbers from the Lee & Low Diversity Baseline Survey 2.0
Jabil (NYSE: JBL), the Tampa Bay Lightning and the University of South Florida Muma College of Business are offering a free, seven-week certification program to teach business owners ways to implement a model that creates a more diverse workplace. The deadline to apply for this free program is March 24. It consists of seven two-hour … Continue reading Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Workplace Certificate
C4DISC Announces New Community Administrator February 17, 2021 – The Coalition for Diversity & Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC) has named Ana Maria Jimenez-Moreno, Ph. D. as Community Administrator to carry out day-to-day business for the growing organization and ensure the community is accomplishing its goals. "I am thrilled to be joining … Continue reading C4DISC Announces New Community Administrator