July 27, 2022 | Simone Ragavooloo Removing offensive content seems an attractive way of righting wrongs and preventing harm. However, for a journal this is not as simple as it first appears. Scientific publishers have a responsibility to preserve the scientific record. Best practice in scholarly publishing is that even retracted content remains retrievable. … Continue reading Acting on historically offensive content in BMJ’s archive
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July-August 2016 | Frank Dobbins and Alexandra Kalev Strategies for controlling bias—which drive most diversity efforts—have failed spectacularly since they were introduced to promote equal opportunity. Black men have barely gained ground in corporate management since 1985. White women haven’t progressed since 2000. It isn’t that there aren’t enough educated women and minorities out … Continue reading Why Diversity Program Fail
How organizations can foster diversity, equity, and inclusion: taking action to address and prevent workplace bias while centering women of color. Few would disagree that inclusion is both the right thing to do and good for business. Then why are we so terrible at it? If we believe in the morality and the profitability of … Continue reading Highlighting: Inclusion on Purpose An Intersectional Approach to Creating a Culture of Belonging at Work
In the United States, only 6% of the 1.5 million faculty in degree-granting postsecondary institutions is Black. Research shows that, while many institutions tout the idea of diversity recruitment, not much progress has been made to diversify faculty ranks, especially at research-intensive institutions. We're Not Ok shares the experiences of Black faculty to take the … Continue reading Highlighting: We’re Not OK Black Faculty Experiences and Higher Education Strategies
We are thrilled and honored to announce that the Toolkit for Disability Equity group will be participating in this year's Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute in October! This year's cohort is international and working on a diverse range of topics. The Toolkit for Disability Equity is lead by the project lead (Katy Alexander, Digital Science; Simon … Continue reading Disability Equity group will be participating in this year’s #TriangleSCI in October!
Kate Dwyer | May 7, 2022 A growing cohort of young enthusiasts is helping to shape the future of an antique trade. Michael F. Suarez, the director of the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia, said that these days, his students are skewing younger and less male than a decade ago, … Continue reading Meet the New Old Book Collectors
Press Release (05/13/2022) For Immediate Release The highest Meritorious Achievement Award of the Council of Science Editors (CSE) granted to the Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC) Scholarly communication is a multi-billion-dollar global enterprise, however recent surveys suggest that it remains characterized by gender inequality and lack of ethnic diversity. … Continue reading The highest Meritorious Achievement Award of the Council of Science Editors (CSE) granted to the Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC)
This is CSE’s highest honor. It is awarded to an individual or an organization that has made significant contributions to advancing the broad goal of CSE: to improve scientific communication through the pursuit of high standards in all activities connected with editing. C4DISC’s convener, Melanie Dolecheck, will accept the CSE Award for Meritorious Achievement on … Continue reading Award for Meritorious Achievement
Danielle Duran Baron | March 21, 2022 When people focus on DEI, they often think about who they’re hiring and asking to participate, rather than how they speak to people. However, using the wrong language in communications can offend, or worse, lead to a crisis at your association. Consider these ideas to communicate effectively … Continue reading Make Inclusive Language a Key Part of Your DEI Efforts
Initiatives designed to improve the diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) in our society have become standard among many organizations in our industry. A special issue dedicated to this topic would address the tensions and challenges of establishing fair treatment of everyone involved in scholarly research and publishing. We are recalibrating policies and practices in … Continue reading CFP — Implementing DEIA in scholarly publishing (ALPSP)