Our commitment to minimise bias in publishing continues to gather international support

Publishers of some of the world’s most impactful research journals and books have committed to tackling bias and discrimination by signing up to our Joint commitment for action on inclusion and diversity in publishing.

Since an initial 11 signatories were announced in late June – including Cambridge University Press, Elsevier and Oxford University Press – 11 further publishers have signed. These include SAGE, eLife, and Wiley and our most recent sigantories Brill, MIT Press and Siam . This brings the collective number of journals affected to over 7,000 – which will have a global impact on research across many disciplines.

The action-oriented list of commitments has now been signed by (alphabetically): AGU, American Chemical Society Publications, American Mathematical Society Publications, BMJ Journals, Brill, Cambridge University Press, the Company of Biologists, eLife, Elsevier, Emerald Publishing, the Geological Society of London, Hindawi, IOP Publishing, MIT Press, NEJM Group, Oxford University Press, the Royal Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, SAGE Publishing, SIAM, Ubiquity Press and Wiley.