Collaboration to Increase Publisher’s SDG Actions:

Collaboration with STM via their STM SDGs Academic Publishers Forum to:

  • officially recognise and promote the Top Action Tips and Rubric across the global publishing industry to increase awareness and implementation

  • provide a list of existing SDG content classification resources, and explore the creation of a unified consistent SDGs taxonomy, to increase discoverability of SDG-related content

  • co-host and promote Solutions Summits to drive action towards the SDGs.

Collaboration to Widen Research Impact Beyond Academia:

Working with the European Association of Science Editors (EASE) we have designed a survey to:

  • increase the number of SDG Publishers Compact signatories

  • reveal what progress has been made by signatories of the SDG Publishers Compact

  • know what is holding organisations and journals back from becoming signatories.

  • feed the creation of guidelines and tools for journal editors, 

  • raise environmental awareness and promote sustainable practices among journal editors.

Collaboration with OpenPharma multi-sponsor collaboration for:

●        Increasing communication of practical applications of research outside academia

●        Joint DORA10 author training session on communicating practical applications of research outside academia

●        Session at Open Pharma multi-stakeholder summit on Plain Language Summaries.

Collaborating with ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability to connect researchers with practitioners:

  • for practitioners to share real world challenges where research is needed with researchers

  • for practitioners and researchers to co-create research agendas and collaborate on research to inform practical action

  • to provide evidence-based practical information on actions to take, and avoid, in practice and policy making.

Collaboration with the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) to:

●        officially recognise and promote the Top Action Tips and Rubric across the global publishing industry to increase awareness and implementation

●        run an ALPSP ‘SDGs in Publishing’ special interest group (SIG), supported by the Fellows as appropriate when resource needs are identified

●        co-host events and promote each other’s events or outputs that drive action towards the SDGs

●        work together to increase the number of SDG Publishers Compact signatories among ALPSP’s members.