Session 11

How can you contribute to your journal’s sustainability

Friday, 16 May 2025, 2.15pm-3.15pm

In this session, the EASE Environment & Sustainability (E&S) and Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Committees gave brief highlights and outcomes from the Survey on the Impact of the SDG Publishers Compact/EASE Manifesto, and the EDI Survey. Both studies revealed the need for more support for small publishers/individual journals, and for tracking/reporting progress when implementing SDG and EDI policies in their journals.

We introduced our SDG Checklist, a resource of ideas for actions to take, and a baselining/reporting tool, and heard from two Editors on using the tool to support their progress.

We discussed the EDI Survey on Editors’ perceptions and opinions about EDI policies and practices in their journals and organisations. The results uncovered specific needs that are guiding the EDI Committee’s actions to promote the implementation of EDI policies in journals.

The EASE-EDI Committee is also active in endorsing important guidelines, as was the case with the SAGER Guidelines. This session presented the recently published Guidelines for Reporting Intersectional analysis in Science and Technology (GRIST), another important tool to help Editors in their sustainability challenges.

Moderators

Iva Grabarić Andonovski

Editor, University of Zagreb Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, Food Technology and Biotechnology journalCroatia

Editor of Food Technology and Biotechnology with over 20 years of experience in scientific publishing. EASE Vice President from 2023-27, Chair of EASE Croatian Regional Chapter, and Co-Chair of Environment and Sustainability Committee. Active in Croatian scientific community as one of the founders and currently the President of Croatian Association for Scholarly Communication (CROASC), member of HRČAK (Portal of Croatian Scientific and Professional Journals) Advisory Board, and Organizing committee member of PUBMET Conference on Scholarly Communication.

Ana Heredia

Consultant, Heredia & Viggiani ConsultingBrazil

Passionate about more diversity and equity in the scholarly communications ecosystem, and a member of several associations in Latin America (ALAEC and ABEC), the US (SSP) and Europe (EASE), I am fully committed to making the scientific publishing a more diverse and fair community.