Other Relevant Toolkits

• C4DISC Toolkits for Equity: Transforming Scholarly Publishing Communities

  • Antiracism Toolkit for Equity for Organizations (2020)

  • Antiracism Toolkit for Allies (2021)

  • Antiracism Toolkit for Equity for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (2022)

• APA Journals Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Toolkit for Editors - American Psychological Association (2021)

• Office of Scholarly Communication, University of California (2023):

  Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Scholarly Communication

• Springer Nature 2022 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

  • A Guide for Editors-in-Chief Addressing Diversity & Inclusion in EBM and Reviewer Recruitment  

  • Managing the Peer Review Process: Addressing Diversity & Inclusion in Reviewer Recruitment  

General Recommendations

• Upending Racism in Psychological Science: Strategies to Change How Science is Conducted, Reported, Reviewed, and Disseminated - Buchanan et al. (2021), American Psychologist

• Racial Inequality in Psychological Research: Trends of the Past and Recommendations for the Future - Roberts et al. (2020), Perspectives on Psychological Science

• Society Publishers’ Coalition Recommendations for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Initiatives for Society Publishers

• Eight Ways to Tackle Diversity and Inclusion in Peer Review - Meadows (2018), The Scholarly Kitchen

Accessibility

• C4DISC Toolkit for Disability Equity

• DAISY Consortium

• Digital Accessibility Digest for creating accessible charts and graphs

• Plain Language Action and Information Network

Training and Learning Tools

Author and Reviewers

• ACS Author Lab

• ACS Reviewer Lab

• American Psychological Association: “Learn How to Review a Manuscript”

• ASHA Journals Academy: Peer Review Excellence Program and their PREP Development Modules

• Canadian Science Publisher: “Peer Review Guidelines for Non-Academic Reviewers”

• Nature Masterclasses

• Wiley Author Services: “How to Perform a Peer Review”

Bias Awareness

• C4DISC webinar: From Recognition to Action: Strategies for Developing Diversity Training for Editors

• Racial Equity Tools

• RacialEquity Institution

• ReadySet Ally Workshop

Demographic Data

• A Roundtable Discussion on Collecting Demographics Data - Mukharji et al., Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society

• Antiracism Toolkit for Organizations - “Using Measurement and Metrics”

• GDPR Compliance Checklist for US Companies

• Google Citation Transparency Extension

• Introducing demographic questions during manuscript submission at the American Psychological Association - Einhorn et al. (2021), The Scholarly Kitchen

• Joint commitment for action on inclusion and diversity in publishing: “Diversity data collection in scholarly publishing”

Name Inference Tools

• GenderAPI

• Genderize.io

• NamSor

• Zenodo Gender Diversity Statement and Code Notebook

Early Career Fellowships

• ASCO Journals

• Big Data and Society

• Editorial Fellowships with APA Journals

• Translational Issues in Psychological Science

Editorial Board Recruitment

• Addressing Diversity & Inclusion in Peer Reviewer and Editorial Board Recruitment - Springer Nature (2022), The Source

• Building and Maintaining an Open Editorial Board - Borgia (SSP 2023)

• Editors of Color

• The PhD Project    

Open Calls for Editors and Reviewers

• American Psychological Association call for editor and associate positions

• American Psychological Association call for editorial fellowship positions

• American Psychological Association call for reviewers

• ASCE: Volunteer To Be a Reviewer

• BMJ Open Quality call for reviewers

• Gender in Management: An International Journal call for reviewers

• SIAM Journal Editor Nominee Form

Equity in Peer Review

• Assessment of Neurology’s Implementation of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Editorial Review of Research Manuscripts - Hamilton et al. (2022), 9th International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication

• Bias in peer review - (2021) COPE Forum Discussions

• Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers (COPE)

• Gender Diversity Statement and Code Notebook v1.0

• Google Citation Transparency Extension

• How double anonymous breaks the bias in peer review - Holst (2022)

• Nature journals offer double blind review

• NISO Standard Terminology for Peer Review

• Peer Review Bias: A Critical View Haffar et al. (2019), Mayo Clinic Proceedings

Inclusive Language

• APA Inclusive Language Guidelines

• Conscious Style Guide

• Three Recommended Inclusive Language Guidelines for Scholarly Publishing: Words Matter - Ashwell et al., 2023, Learned Publishing

• “What's new in the AP Stylebook, 56th Edition?” 2022. AP Stylebook Help Center

Inclusive Role Descriptions and Job Postings

• ACS Inclusivity Guide: Job Descriptions - American Chemical Society

• Advancing Health Equity: A Guide to Language, Narrative and Concepts - AMA-AAMC Center for Health Justice (2021)

• Antiracist Recruitment and Hiring Practices - In Antiracist Toolkit for Organizations, C4DISC (2021), Toolkits for Equity in Scholarly Publishing

• Gender Decoder

• Eploy - Screening tool for writing inclusive job postings

Journal Diversity Statements

Guidelines for Creating Diversity Statements

• How to Create a Journal Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Statement - The Wiley Network

• Promises and pitfalls of diversity statements: Proceed with caution - Carnes et al. (2019), Academic Medicine

• The Cell Press Inclusion and Diversity Statement—An interview with Deborah Sweet - Meadows (2021), The Scholarly Kitchen  

Diversity Statement Examples (journal and publisher level)

• American Chemical Society (ACS): diversity and inclusion statement

• American Psychologist: Journal equity, diversity, and inclusion statement (see section on EDI Efforts)

• Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES): citation diversity statement

• Cell Press: inclusion and diversity statement

• Nature Reviews Bioengineering: citation diversity statement

Open Research and Data Sharing

• Center for Open Science

• GDPR Compliance Checklist for US Companies  

• Promoting an Open Research Culture - Nosek et al. (2015), Science

• Ten Simple Rules for Maximizing the Recommendations of the NIH Data Management and Sharing Plan - Gonzales et al. (2022), PLOS Computational Biology

• Transformative Agreements: A Primer - Hinchcliffe (2019), The Scholarly Kitchen

Reporting Standards

• APA’s Journal Article Reporting Standards

• EQUATOR network

Reviewer Recruiting and Mentoring

• APA Journals Mentorship Program

• Co-reviewing at IOPP

• BMC Peer Review Mentoring

• Nature Communication Early Career Researchers Peer Review programme

• PREreview Open Reviewers

• A Review of Coreviewing Experiments at Elsevier