Promoting equity and inclusion in journals
AAPA’s Journals program has been measuring uptake on many of the 30 recommended equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) actions highlighted in APA’s EDI Toolkit for Journal Editors, which offers resources, standards, initiatives, and recommendations from APA Publishing to support editors in promoting EDI in their journals. At the beginning of 2022, only five of APA’s journals asked authors to justify the demographic distribution of their samples. As of this fall, 24 journals (26% of those published by APA) now recommend or require this information from submitting authors. In addition, 25 APA-published journals now offer editorial fellowships for scholars from historically excluded groups, a 400% increase from the beginning of the year.
Many other journals have adopted EDI policies new to APA journals, such as asking authors to report the year or years of data collection in the title or recommending that authors acknowledge inequities in citation practices and take action to reduce them, an effort known as citational justice. Access the toolkit online.
New updates to APA Style Student Workbook
APA has added 28 quizzes and a glossary of terms to the Mastering APA Style Student Workbook (7th edition) to improve the way students learn APA Style and scholarly writing. The quizzes are interactive and correspond with the workbook’s nine modules. Instructors who want to adopt the student workbook as part of a course can integrate the workbook with their school’s learning management system, allowing them to customize the number of quiz attempts and to export scores to their gradebook. Order at APA Style.
The psychological impact of long Covid
Neuropsychologists Tracy Vannorsdall, PhD, of Johns Hopkins University, and Rowena Ng, PhD, of the Kennedy Krieger Institute, join APA’s award-winning Speaking of Psychology podcast to discuss treating patients with long Covid and what scientists are learning about the long-term cognitive and psychological effects of Covid-19. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
How Do We Know Ourselves
All author royalties for psychologist David G. Myers’s new book of essays on psychological science, How Do We Know Ourselves: Curiosities and Marvels of the Human Mind, are pledged to support the teaching of psychology, with half going to the American Psychological Foundation to further the work of APA’s Teachers of Psychology in Secondary Schools.