Simon Holt, Guest Author

Simon Holt is Head of Content Accessibility at Elsevier. He has worked in Scholarly Communications for over 15 years, working across books and journals. He is an advocate for disability inclusion and accessible publishing in the scholarly communications industry, and is a current SSP Board Member. He lives in Oxford, UK.

Articles by Simon Holt

Guest Post – Beyond Open Access, Part II: Make Images Truly Accessible for All

Today’s guest authors offer practical tips for publishing high-quality image descriptions, a key step toward ensuring genuine accessibility in scholarly communications.

Guest Post — Beyond Open Access, Part 1: Make Academic Content Truly Accessible for All

Open access has revolutionized how research reaches readers — yet, true accessibility is an ethical imperative for institutions, publishers, and service providers to create genuinely inclusive scholarly communication.

Guest Post — How Libraries and Scholarly Publishers Can Work Together Toward Born-accessible Publishing

Libraries and publishers can work together to improve the availability of accessible published content for people with disabilities. Here we present recommendations to support the cross-sector collaboration necessary to improve the accessibility of content in our communities.

Guest Post — European Accessibility Act: Working Toward Compliance and Beyond

Today’s post puts the spotlight on the European Accessibility Act (EAA) directive and how different organizations are getting ready to make their publications and services EAA compliant.

Guest Post — 10 Quick Wins to Make Your Organization More Disability Inclusive

Small-scale and low-cost activities can make a huge difference in making your organization more disability inclusive.

Community Reflections: Takeaways from the Diversity Sessions at SSP’s 43rd Annual Meeting, Part 2

This week a series of posts looking back at the lessons learned from SSP Meeting DEI sessions. Today’s post looks at “The Glass Ceiling You Don’t Know About Yet”.

Some Perspectives on Disability Disclosure in the Publishing Industry

Today’s guest post, by Simon Holt and Erin Osborne-Martin, is the first of two looking at the experiences of people with disabilities in scholarly publishing (the second will be published tomorrow).

Guest Post — “Leave the Party While You’re Having Fun”: An Interview with Suzanne BeDell upon her Retirement

Simon Holt interviews Suzanne BeDell, Managing Director of Elsevier’s Education and Reference content, which encompasses Elsevier’s books business, upon her retirement.

Guest Post — Towards Accessible Conferences: A Conversation

Following our conversation about Neurodiversity in December, Publishing Enabled return with a discussion about how to make academic conferences more accessible to people with disabilities.

Guest Post — Books for the 2020s: The Role of Book Content in the STM Researcher Ecosystem

What is the role of book content in the Science, Technical and Medical (STM) researcher ecosystem?

Guest Post — The Problem Solvers You Don’t Know About Yet: Valuing Disability in the Publishing Industry

In this guest post, Katy Alexander (Digital Science), Becky Degler (Wiley) and Simon Holt (Elsevier) explain why the scholarly communications industry would benefit from being more inclusive in its recruitment and development of people with disabilities, highlighting the particular skills they bring to our industry

The Scholarly Kitchen

Simon Holt

Articles by Simon Holt

Guest Post — 10 Quick Wins to Make Your Organization More Disability Inclusive

Some Perspectives on Disability Disclosure in the Publishing Industry

Guest Post — “Leave the Party While You’re Having Fun”: An Interview with Suzanne BeDell upon her Retirement

Guest Post — Books for the 2020s: The Role of Book Content in the STM Researcher Ecosystem

Guest Post — The Problem Solvers You Don’t Know About Yet: Valuing Disability in the Publishing Industry

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