[Dcouncil] FYI- Jefferson Lab Partners with Scientific Journals and National Laboratories to Support Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Initiatives

[Rebecca Duckett]

Dear colleagues-
You may recall that back in May, Gina and I shared that there was an initiative among the national laboratories and publishers/journals supporting a streamlined effort to enable name change requests. This announcement will be made public on July 28 at 10 a.m. (this is embargoed until then, so please keep the release to yourselves until Wednesday). The name change service is not limited to those who are transgender; those who have changed their name for any reason (marriage, etc.) may take advantage of this service.

Discussion of a formal policy will be forthcoming but for now, the Jefferson Lab contact who will initiate the name change request to the publishers is Kim Edwards. This means that if someone wants to change their name on past bodies of work, they will email Kim and she will reach out to the publishers/journals on their behalf.

Here is a quick summary of the initiative taken from the attached press release (and what will run in the JLab Weekly tomorrow) for your reference.

DOE LABS PARTNER WITH PUBLISHERS TO STREAMLINE NAME CHANGE REQUESTS
Jefferson Lab has partnered all 17 other national labs, as well as publishers and journals to support name change requests on past published papers in an effort to promote diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives at the lab. The name change service allows researchers to more effortlessly own their full body of work throughout the years. The partnership enables the individual researchers’ respective institutions to directly pursue name changes on their behalf with the publishers and journals. In previous years, individual researchers shouldered the burden of initiating name change requests with each publisher of their past papers. The initiative specifically addresses the administrative and emotional difficulties some transgender researchers have experienced when requesting name changes associated with past academic work. For transgender researchers specifically, the change ensures they can rightfully claim ownership of prior work without fear of reprisal under their lived name and be known in their respective fields primarily through their merits as published authors. If anyone at the lab needs assistance changing their name on past published papers, contact Kim Edwards <insert email>. To read the full press release, click here <insert link>.

We will highlight this initiative on social media, as well as our website.

Let me know if you have questions.

Thanks,
Rebecca

Rebecca Duckett
Internal Communications Specialist
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Jefferson Science Associates, LLC
757-679-7575 (c) | duckett at jlab.org<mailto:duckett at jlab.org>


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