New Call for Papers alert! Consider submitting to our forthcoming special issue on "Accessibility in Digital Publishing" edited by Ellen Forget and John W Maxwell @jmaxsfu@hcommons.social CfP available here: journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/news/253/ Abstracts due October 1 2026.
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JournalofElectronicPublishing
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hometown 4.5.18+hometown-1.2.1A peer-reviewed, diamond open access journal on contemporary scholarly publishing issues and practices. Co-edited by Alyssa Arbuckle @alyssaarbuckle@hcommons.social + Janneke Adema @openreflections@hcommons.social, supported by @UofMPress@home.social
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Elen Le Foll’s article ‘“Well, parts of linguistics is open’: Insights into Linguists’ Diverse Understandings of Open Science” draws on survey data & interviews with linguists, highlighting field-specific challenges, including issues of copyright and data privacy. https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.7974 [13/n]
New Call for Papers alert! Consider submitting to our forthcoming special issue on The Future of Diamond Open Access: Possibilities, Perils, and Pathways. CfP available here: https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/news/239/ Abstracts due March 23rd 2026. #DiamondOA
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Claire Davin, Jess Beck, and Lai Ma’s “Open Practices, Closed Realities? Archaeological Perspectives on Open Research Practices” presents findings from in-depth interviews with archaeologists, surfacing barriers to engagement with openness in this field. https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.7833
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In “Open for Debate: Situating Open Research for the Humanities in a Neoliberal Setting,” Beatriz Barrocas Ferreira addresses the underlying politics of open research in the humanities, calling for development of a more just and genuinely open knowledge system. https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.7850 [6/n]
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Wong and Wong, in “Negotiating Openness Under Authoritarian Risk: Feminist Open Data Sharing in Hong Kong,” consider the ethics & governance of data sharing, with specific focus on qualitative data gathered within politically precarious or authoritarian contexts. https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.7839
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In “Open at the Level of (Para)Text: Critical Intertextuality and Discursive Notation as Open Research Practices in the Humanities,” Jenni Adams explores textual & paratextual practices to support transparency in a situated and epistemically appropriate way. https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.7845
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In “Open Infrastructure and the Threat of ‘Vanishing’ Journals: Leveraging Open Knowledge Commons, Open Source Software & DIY Solutions to Preserve Humanities and Social Sciences Research”, Graham Jensen, Sajib Ghosh, Archie To, and Ray Siemens explore interventions to address vulnerable digital scholarship. https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.7860 [19/n]
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In “Doing Openness Otherwise: Democratization and OA Publishing in HSS,” Rebekka Kiesewetter reveals opportunities for a truly democratized OA publishing landscape by way of situated, collective experimentation. https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.7944
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Corinna MacDonald’s “Mobilizing Knowledge in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Exploring Competing Articulations of Openness in Policy and Practice” considers knowledge mobilization (KMb) requirements
in Canadian HE institutions & expressing public research value. https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.7849
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In “Open Scholarship in the Humanities: An OA Author Intervention,” Fathallah draws on her own experience of open access book publishing to highlight the need for more ethical forms of publishing that are less beholden to traditional structures of prestige. https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.7812
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In “A Prototyping Renaissance: Form, Content, and Scale in Open Publication in the Humanities,” John W Maxwell and Alessandra Bordini consider prototyping as a way to reframe our ideas of open research in the humanities beyond content-only notions of open access. https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.7837
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Adeola Eze, in “What Does Openness Mean for the Humanities? Redefining Ethical and Reflexive Practices in Open Research”, examines the discourse underpinning open science and reinterprets it for the humanities with close attention paid to the work of Umberto Eco. https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.7873
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Ioanna Faïta’s “Tensions et zones d’ombre autour de la science ouverte en SHS en France” (Tensions and gray areas surrounding open science in the humanities & social sciences in France) examines controversies in adoption of open science within French HSS communities. https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.7854
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Simon Dumas Primbault’s “Do Infrastructures Have Epistemologies? Studying an Open Access Infrastructure for SSH from Within” examines the socio-epistemic features of HSS infrastructures with specific reference to OpenEdition Lab. https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.7803 [18/n]
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Elfenbein, Hoffman & LaFlamme’s “Emerging Forms of Open Research in Social/Cultural Anthropology,” shares interviews with key contributors to three emerging open research infrastructures in anthropology: PECE, EMERGE, and the xcol inventory. https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.8085 [20/n]
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Candice Fillaud, Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri, Yutong Fei, and Valentine Favel-Kapoian’s “The French HSS Community Speaks Out on Open Science: A Top-Down and Bottom-Up Taxonomy Approach” unpacks French HSS scholars’ criticisms of French national open science policy. https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.7835 [16/n]
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Finally, Maddalena Fragnito reviews Anne Baillot’s @anne_baillot book From Handwriting to Footprinting, published by Open Book Publishers @OpenBookPublish in her book review ‘Rethinking Textuality in the Climate Crisis’: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.7637 [12/n]
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The contributions to this issue highlight tensions in current open research discourse, but also reveal the many opportunities for discussions of openness to broaden out and encompass a greater variety of practices and applications across a range of disciplines. [3/n]
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The issue includes the following contributions: [4/n]
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Editors Samuel Moore, Jenni Adams, and Miranda Barnes open the issue with ‘Open Research for the Humanities and Social Sciences: Editors’ Introduction,’ outlining key questions asked within the issue and introducing the contributions: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.9283 [5/n]
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This timely and essential collection considers how dominant understandings of open research and open science relate to HSS disciplines and how they are resisted, asking if AHSS disciplines need their own conceptions of openness, or if OR itself needs to “humanise”. [2/n]
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Editor Janneke Adema @openreflections opens the issue with ‘Editor’s Gloss. Publishing and Climate Justice: Dialogue and Action,’ in which she outlines the questions the issue asks while introducing the contributions and the ways in which they offer real examples of meaningful change: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.7801 [5/n]
Pssst… it’s our birthday! Happy 30th Birthday, JEP! 🎈
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John Maxwell @jmaxsfu telescopes into the Books and Browsers moment, an era that JEP engaged by publishing proceedings from that conference: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.8294 [4/5]
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In JEP 28(3), co-editors Alyssa Arbuckle @alyssaarbuckle & Janneke Adema @openreflections reflect on editorship in “Valuing the Role of the Editor: Now and in the Future” and dig deeper into an ongoing consideration of AI and editorship: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.8758 [2/5]
Reminder…: Consider submitting to our forthcoming special issue on The Future of Diamond Open Access: Possibilities, Perils, and Pathways. CfP available here:
https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/news/239/
We invite broader discussion on Diamond OA and its future(s), from the highly conceptual to the deeply infrastructural. What is next for Diamond OA as it oscillates between the potential for either a technocratic or community-led and commons-based future?
Abstracts due March 23rd 2026. #DiamondOA
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In ‘Multilingual Scholarly Publishing and Artificial Intelligence Translation Tools: Weighing Social Justice & Climate Justice’ Lynne Bowker @lynnebowker weighs these tools potential to aid linguistic diversity with their environmental harm & (non)human costs: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.7100 [6/n]
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The contributions to this issue all share a desire to further the dialogue about climate (in)justice in scholarly publishing. But they also offer real examples of how scholars, publishers, libraries, universities and infrastructure providers can start to make meaningful change in this context [3/n]
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This important collection captures urgent and critical research that starts to outline the challenges the climate emergency poses to the publishing sector. The issue asks: What is the role and responsibility of the publishing industry in tackling climate change? [2/n]
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Angus Lyall, Mark Ortiz & Emily Billo’s 'Greenwashing at Elsevier: A Political Ecology of Corporate Publishing' republished from @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social details greenwashing rituals at Elsevier as form of corporate labor governance to immobilize climate activism https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.7482 (republished from the Journal of Political Ecology @journalofpoliticalecology) [8/n]
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Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri @boukacemzeg provides a historical reflection on JEP’s trajectory over the past few decades, and the ways in which her own work has intersected with the journal’s over time:
EN: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.8761
FR: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.8311
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Finally, Jeff Pooley @jpooley considers the predominance of textuality in scholarly communication; a reality reflected in JEP’s own historical corpus, which is primarily (although not exclusively!) text based: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.8757 [5/5]
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@RonaldSnijder & Danny Kingsley examine language bias in research assessment & bibliometric databases and alternatives in ‘Research Assessment Systems and the Effects of Publication Language: Manifestations in the Directory of Open Access Books’ https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.4847 [14/18]
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@OpenBookPublish @anne_baillot Thanks Anne! We are very happy that we have been able to include a review of your important book in this special issue.
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Simon Worthington @mrchristian et al., in ‘Climate Justice in Electronic Publishing: Supporting Global South Participation in Climate Science Through Semantic Publishing’ present a model to open up & make the IPCC climate reports more accessible, beyond the constraints of the PDF: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.7206 [9/n]
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Janneke Adema @openreflections argues in ‘Strategies for Climate Justice in the Academic Publishing Industry: From Pledges to Direct Action’ that the industry needs stronger commitments & climate governance (including legislation & penalties) that go beyond self-regulatory frameworks: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.7096 [7/n]
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In ‘Sustainability and Resilience: A Critical Review of Sustainability Literature & Implications to Resilience of U.S. Academic Libraries, Archives, and Information Systems’ Kaitlyn Rich imagines community-engaged decentralized paths based on academic-archival collabs: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.7211 [11/n]
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The issue includes the following contributions: [4/n]
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Chelsea Miya & Geoffrey Rockwell @geoffreyrockwell argue in ‘Platitudes: The Carbon Weight of the Post-Platform Scholarly Web’ for a minimal computing–inspired approach to web design to push back against the hegemony of big tech & adopt more eco-conscious forms of knowledge production: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.7247 [10/n]
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Finally, in her postscript ‘Multilingualism in Scholarly Publishing: How Far Can Technology Take Us and What Else Can We Do?’ Lynne Bowker provides a summative reflection on the intersection between emerging technologies & multilingual scholarship: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.6262 [18/18]
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In ‘Dealing with Multilingualism and Non-English Content in Open Repositories: Challenges and Perspectives’ Christophe Dony, @irynakuchma & Milica Ševkušić @lessormore focus on the role of open repositories in facilitating multilingual publishing: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.5455 [13/18]
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Sarah Tew and Melissa Jerome offer a detailed account of a project’s creation when dealing with more than one language in ‘Recetas de las Américas: A Case Study in Hugo Static Site Generator for Bilingual Web Publishing’ https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.5603 [17/18]
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@quinnanya, Goregaokar, Joeng (Yang) & Kamran consider how major technological shifts have impacted multilingual publishing in ‘Encoding Multilingualism: Technical Affordances of Multilingual Publication from Manuscripts to Unicode and OpenType’ https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.5528 [15/18]
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In ‘Illegible Multiculturalisms: Making, Digesting, and Translating Empanadas and Doenjang-jjigae within Digital Monolingualism’ Bascuñan-Wiley and Jungsuk Howard present a cooking/writing project to further examine these technical tensions: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.5433 [16/18]
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