Practical actions academics, academic publishers can take to turn UN SDGs into reality: Opinion

University World News recently spoke to HESI SDG Publishers Compact Fellows Founder Dr Debra Rowe about the organization’s recently published advice for orienting academic publishing toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The group published 12 sets of suggestions, which include prioritizing journal submissions that are aligned with the SDGs, creating library guides focused on the SDGs, and providing abstracts with plain language summaries for non-specialist readers. Additionally, Rowe explains that academics can draw on literature from experts who normally would not be included in academic journals to raise policymaker awareness of issues. In her concluding comments, Rowe indicated that higher education will “have to change some of our processes and fill in some of the gaps” to make a real difference.”

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