American Chemical Society announces new appointments - March 10, 2021
The American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced a reorganization to better serve its membership, employees and the broader chemistry enterprise. Dr. Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay was promoted to Vice President, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Respect (DEIR) and will lead the new ACS Office of DEIR. She will report… Read More
Springer Nature Group signed up to The Valuable 500 - January 29, 2021
Springer Nature Group has signed up to The Valuable 500, a global movement working to put disability inclusion on the business leadership agenda, marking another step in the development of its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) strategy. The Valuable 500 is the only global CEO community… Read More
C4DISC announces community support following official launch - December 23, 2020
The Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC) has announced increased community support for its work in the three months following its official launch. C4DISC released its first call for members, partners, and volunteers on September 15, 2020, and now has three partners and 12… Read More
MDPI adopts C4DISC principles to support building equity and accessibility in scholarly communications - December 16, 2020
MDPI is adopting the principles of the Coalition for Diversity & Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC) to support building equity, inclusion, diversity, and accessibility in scholarly communications. The C4DISC represents organisations and individuals working in scholarly communications and is focused on addressing issues of diversity and… Read More
C4DISC now accepting new members, partners, and volunteers - September 17, 2020
The Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC) is now accepting new members, partners, and volunteers. C4DISC was originally formed in 2017 by a small group of trade and professional associations, to discuss and address issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) within the… Read More
ProQuest announces audio-described video inclusion to improve accessibility for visually impaired users - July 24, 2020
ProQuest has announced the addition of audio descriptions to its most-watched video titles in the Academic Video Online and ProQuest OneTM Academic platforms, making educational streaming video more accessible to visually impaired users. Audio description adds narration… Read More
Accessibility developments drive Taylor & Francis Online towards WCAG 2.1 level AA - April 23, 2020
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis Group has updated its Accessibility Statement to confirm major steps towards achieving level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG). WCAG standards are set by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a globally adopted standard ensuring websites are useful… Read More
Springer Nature and PubChem partner to improve accessibility to material and property data - March 19, 2020
Springer Nature has announced a partnership with open access database PubChem, hosted by the US National Institute of Health, to enable researchers to quickly identify reliable property information of materials and links to primary research. Springer Nature’s materials and properties database, SpringerMaterials serves researchers in… Read More
EBSCO eBooksTM named top e-book platform provider in 2020 ASPIRE Accessibility Audit - March 13, 2020
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has been named one of the top e-book platform providers in the ASPIREverified Accessibility Audit with the first-ever perfect score of 100 percent. This honour recognises an organisation’s commitment to improving the content and communication of its accessibility… Read More
Northwestern University Press joins initiative to diversify academic publishing - March 1, 2019
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded a four-year, $1,205,000 grant to the University of Washington Press to support the continued development and expansion of the pipeline program designed to diversify academic publishing by offering apprenticeships in acquisitions departments. This new grant… Read More
