When I think of sustainability in scholarly publishing, three points come to my mind.
First, I see sustainability issues from two different perspectives: i) inward looking, and ii) outward looking. By inward looking, I mean that individual publishers and their societies are working to achieve sustainability within themselves. Nowadays, this effort is often translated into contributions to achieving one or more Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDG Publishers Compact is very useful here to identify actions and stay focused. The inward-looking actions also include ensuring Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA) along the publishing workflow by focusing on people involved at different stages. It further includes our environmental and climate actions through reducing carbon/environmental footprints by changing working modalities, marketing strategies, and overall production systems, for example.
Author(s)
Haseeb Irfanullah
Publisher
EON
Categories
Article, E&S Committee