Top Action Tips
Research and education are at the core of all progress. It must now be aimed at achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the 2030 deadline. The signatories of the SDG Publishers Compact must work to align the entire research and education community’s daily practices, content and measures of success to the SDGs. To this effect, the SDG Publishers Compact Fellows has identified key practical actions that different groups within the scholarly community can take to embed SDGs into practice.
We acknowledge that the tips cover a range of important and rapidly evolving topics. From time to time, we may issue updated versions of these documents, and we welcome feedback via hesicompactfellows@gmail.com .
Thanks to the following people for their key assistance in the development of these action tips: Gerald Beasley, Dana Compton, Hannah Ells, Julia Christensen Hughes, Nicola Jones, Nikita Lad, Derek Lough, Ratna Lubis, Jason Maitland, Deb Morrison, Annalisa Raymer, Debra Rowe, Jo Wixon and Roger Worthington.
View or Download the Tip Sheets
-
Equity
Top action tips for promoting equity in research and publishing: for collaborative use by researchers, publishers, editors, funders and higher education institutions.
-
Journal Editors
Journal editors guide and curate the academic record. To drive sustainability in the research agenda, journal editors can support policies that give authors the platform to focus on sustainability.
-
Academic publishers, editors & reviewers
The academic publishing community must create the systems through which research and education can drive global achievement of the SDGs.
-
Graduate researchers & students
The new generations of researchers, beginning their careers in a time of change and action, must integrate sustainability into the agenda of future scholarship.
-
Academic authors
Authors must actively choose to create the knowledge humankind needs to fuel growth that is sustainable and make change that is positive.
See our recommendations for best practices on bringing SDGs into your research.
-
Academic librarians
Libraries must ensure that the knowledge required to achieve the SDGs can be recognized, discovered and made available to those who will build upon it and put it into action.
-
Connecting researchers & practitioners
Research alone will not make the SDGs reality. Each member of scholarly community must work to put research in the hands of practitioners.
-
Driving sustainability-literacy in educational materials
To grow a world where sustainability-literacy the norm, our textbooks and other educational materials must truly integrate sustainability concepts.
-
Communicating Implications: Policymakers, Journalists & the Public
To drive real world change, the practical implications of SDG related research must be accessible to policymakers, journalists and the public.
-
Communicating Implications: Professionals & Practitioners
To drive real world change, the practical implications of SDG related research must be accessible to professionals and practitioners.