Are you looking for meaningful ways that your publishing practices can reflect a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)? Review your current practices and learn to take a critical eye toward anti-racist action. Join us for one or both of these complimentary workshops ideal for authors, reviewers, editors and other roles in academic and open publishing. You’ll come away with insights and actionable steps, equipped to begin making meaningful change.

Workshop #1:
January 18, 2022, 12pm-1pm Pacific

This session outlines the mission of open-access publishing with a focus on anti-racist and DEI efforts. We will discuss how the equity statements and guidelines of organizations such as the Library Publishing Coalition and the Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC) offer a proactive foundation for authors, reviewers, and editors to develop strategic anti-racist and anti-oppressive initiatives in their own spheres of influence. 

In the first session of this two-workshop series, we’ll get oriented to several anti-racist documents in digital publishing so we can consider how they might be adapted for OER, journal publishing, and scholarly publishing organizations.

This session can be a stand-alone experience, or preparation for the second workshop. Zoom registration is required. Session is offered free of charge to attendees, co-sponsored by Council of Editors of Learned Journals, Library Publishing Coalition and the Open Education Network.

Workshop #2:
February 15, 2022, 12pm-1:30pm Pacific

In this 90-minute session, using the Anti-Racist Scholarly Reviewing Practices: A Heuristic for Editors, Reviewers, and Authors we’ll explore real-world, racially sensitive writing/publishing scenarios from the perspectives of authors, editors, reviewers, and publishers. We will show examples of peer-review criteria that have been adapted using this heuristic and discuss the document’s publishing scenarios in moderated break-out rooms. We encourage publishers who work with editors or authors on OA journals or OER to consider how this heuristic can be adapted for use with the editors and authors they work with, as well as how it can be applied to other proposal rubrics or evaluation guidelines.

If attendees have peer review guidelines or rubrics, we will spend the second half of the workshop focusing on how that existing documentation can be revised to be more inclusive, following the anti-racist heuristic. Participants will come away with new ideas and actionable steps for creating and sustaining anti-racist publishing programs.

This session can be a stand-alone experience, or a follow-up to the first workshop. Workshop limited to 50. Zoom registration is required. Session is offered free of charge to attendees, co-sponsored by Council of Editors of Learned Journals, Library Publishing Coalition and the Open Education Network.