SDG Publishers Compact
Non-binding United Nations pact
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| 2024 | Springer Nature is set to launch Nature Cities, a journal relating to SDG 11 (Sustainable cities and communities) and other SDGs. |
| 2024 | Clarivate Plc signed the Publishers Compact, expanding the international support for the initiative. |
| 2023 | PLOS joined the SDG Publishers Compact, reaffirming its commitment to advancing the 17 Sustainable Development Goals by promoting scientific content related to the goals and committing to sustainable business actions. |
| 2023 | The Lowitja Institute is expected to launch First Nations Health and Wellbeing - The Lowitja Journal, an international peer-reviewed open access journal for First Nations research, in collaboration with Elsevier. |
| 2023 | Universities from Australia, Canada, and Great Britain dominated the top 100 rankings in the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings. |
| 2022 | Emerald Publishing commissioned its second global inclusivity report, continuing its assessment of diversity and inclusion in the academic sector. |
| 2022 | ALPSP University Press Redux conference discussed creating carbon-neutral supply chains and environmental implications of business travel, with experiments in remote meetings and 'flipped' conferencing. |
| 2022 | Börsenverein (German Publishers and Booksellers Association) established a Sustainability Working Group with three Task Forces to address sustainable practices in publishing, covering production, logistics, reporting, and operations across different company sizes. |
| 2022 | Times Higher Education Impact Rankings assessed 1,524 institutions from 110 countries and regions, evaluating their performance on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). |
| 2022 | The International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers (STM) established its own SDGs Academic Publishers Forum to provide information and support. |
| 2021 | University of California Press launched Advances in Global Health, an open-access journal framed around the SDGs, with Fernando Mardones from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile as the senior editor. |
| 2021 | PLOS introduced five new open-access journals focusing on SDG-related areas: PLOS Climate, PLOS Water (SDG 6), PLOS Sustainability and Transformation, PLOS Digital Health, and PLOS Global Public Health (SDG 3). |
| 2021 | Springer Nature increases percentage of women in senior leadership positions to 43%. |
| 2021 | Wiley reduced its print volume by 1.1 million copies (85 million pages of paper) as part of its sustainability efforts. |
| 2021 | The International Publishers Association (IPA) created the IPA SDG Dashboard, a repository for information about how publishers are addressing the SDGs. |
| 2021 | The European Association of Science Editors (EASE) published an Environmental Manifesto outlining environmentally responsible actions for publishers and organizations. |
| 2020 | Emerald Publishing commissioned its first global inclusivity report, assessing diversity and inclusion in the academic sector. |
| 2020 | ALPSP and Cambridge University Press launched the University Press Redux Sustainability Award, with the inaugural award given to the OECD for its SDG Pathfinder digital discovery tool. |
| 2020 | The SDG Publishers Compact was launched, initiating a global commitment by publishers to support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. |
| 2020 | Within nine months of its launch, the SDG Publishers Compact gained 100 signatories from publishers and organizations worldwide. |
| 2020 | The International Publishers Association (IPA) published a report titled 'Publishers and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals', providing insights into publishers' activities related to SDGs. |
| December 2020 | The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) released its Inclusion and Diversity strategy through 2025, emphasizing inclusive publishing as crucial for creating an inclusive community in chemical sciences. |
| October 14 2020 | The SDG Publishers Compact was formally launched at the Frankfurt Book Fair, with the first signatories being announced. Key presenters included Juergen Boos, Hugo Setzer, Michiel Kolman, Sherri Aldis, and Nadja Kneissler. |
| 2019 | The Sustainable Development Goals Book Club was launched at the Bologna Children's Book Fair, introducing a monthly reading list focusing on different Sustainable Development Goals. |
| 2018 | Springer Nature reports 39% of senior leadership positions are held by women. |
| 2018 | Emerald Publishing issued a Real Impact Manifesto, challenging publishers and the research community to reconsider their operations in terms of impact and sustainability. |
| 2018 | Sustainable Development Goals Book Club was created, initiating the groundwork for the SDG Publishers Compact. |
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