4 - Making Academic Publishing More Equitable with Julia Robinson

About this episode

Lois King interviews Julia Robinson about the challenges and efforts towards equity in academic publishing in public health.

There are so many issues with academic publishing: researchers paying journals to publish their work, while potential readers are stuck being paywalls; predatory publishing; language inaccessibility... but PLOS Global Public Health are fighting to help push the needle towards equity in publishing public health studies from around the world. Check out my uplifting interview with Julia Robinson - Executive Editor at PLOS Global Public Health , global health activist and social justice advocate! Julia Robinson on X: x.com/juliae_robinson Julia Robinson on LinkedIn: hwww.linkedin.com/in/julia-robinson-0361849 PLOS Global Public Health website: journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth Music: Starlight by QubeSounds (from Pixabay) Cover art by Lois King (Canva) Check out my Patreon for exclusive content: ⁠www.patreon.com/notiphied⁠ Follow the podcast on Instagram: ⁠www.instagram.com/notiphied.podcast⁠ Lois' website: ⁠www.loisemilyking.com⁠

People in this episode

Host: Lois King

Guest: Julia Robinson

Topics covered

• academic publishing
• equity
• public health
• social justice
• global health

Keywords

• academic publishing
• equity
• PLOS Global Public Health
• social justice
• global health activism

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: PLOS Global Public Health, QubeSounds, Pixabay, Patreon, LinkedIn, Instagram, Canva

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