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Open access, scholarly communications journal for research about contemporary publishing practices. Co-edited by Alyssa Arbuckle and Janneke Adema supported by University of Michigan Press https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/
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? #DiamondOA
Reminder: Consider submitting to our forthcoming special issue on The Future of Diamond Open Access: Possibilities, Perils, and Pathways. CfP available here:
journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/news/239/
Abstracts due March 23rd 2026. #DiamondOA
Writing for JEP is a real pleasure. Highly recommend submitting an abstract if you work on issues related to open access -->
CfP: Special Issue of Journal of Electronic Publishing on The Future of Diamond Open Access: Possibilities, Perils, and Pathways
journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/news/239/
Any questions to JEP co-editors Janneke Adema and Alyssa Arbuckle via jep.editors@gmail.com.
We want to hear your Diamond OA thoughts (and maybe even dreams?!)
CFP deadline March 23
"Through this special issue, 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?"
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: journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/news/239/ Abstracts due March 23rd 2026. #DiamondOA
We @jepub.bsky.social are proud to be part of the Open Journals Collective @ojcollective.bsky.social inaugural collection of #diamondOA journals. Published by @uofmpress.bsky.social & @michiganpublishing.bsky.social we have been #diamondOA since launching in 1995. Great to be part of this community!
Cover of the journal Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies on Sustainable Publishing
Table of contents of the special issue on Sustainable Publishing of Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies on Sustainable Publishing
Table of contents of the special issue on Sustainable Publishing of Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies on Sustainable Publishing
This looks like an amazing issue of Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies on Sustainable Publishing: imaginationsjournal.ca/index.php/im... Lots of overlap too with our recent @jepub.bsky.social issue on Publishing and Climate Justice: journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/issue/38...
I'm sharing this brief essay—on modes and mediums in scholarly publishing—just published in @jepub.bsky.social 30th anniversary issue. It's a worlds-colliding piece for me, media studies meets academic publishing journals.publishing.umich.edu...
Finally, Jeff Pooley @jpooley.bsky.social 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: doi.org/10.3998/jep.... [5/5]
John Maxwell telescopes into the Books and Browsers moment, an era that JEP engaged by publishing proceedings from that conference: doi.org/10.3998/jep.... [4/5]
Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri @c-bz.bsky.social 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:
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In JEP 28(3), co-editors Alyssa Arbuckle @alyssaarbuckle.bsky.social & Janneke Adema 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: doi.org/10.3998/jep.... [2/5]
We are excited to announce the publication of our JEP 30th Anniversary Special Issue, comprising reflections from our editorial board and edited by Alyssa Arbuckle @alyssaarbuckle.bsky.social and Janneke Adema! journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/issue/43... [1/5]
Pssst… it’s our birthday! Happy 30th Birthday, JEP! 🎈🎂😀
"The issue asks: What is the role and responsibility of the publishing industry in tackling climate change?"
Special issue of @jepub.bsky.social on Publishing and Climate Justice edited by Janneke Adema.
journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/issue/38...
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New special issue of @jepub.bsky.social on Publishing & Climate Justice, edited by our colleague Janneke Adema!
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So great to see this in the world. Thank you to editor Janneke Adema, all of the authors, reviewers, and fine folks at @michiganpublishing.bsky.social for creating this timely special issue!
Finally, Maddalena Fragnito reviews Anne Baillot’s book From Handwriting to Footprinting, published by Open Book Publishers @openbookpublish.bsky.social in her book review ‘Rethinking Textuality in the Climate Crisis’: doi.org/10.3998/jep.... [12/n]
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: doi.org/10.3998/jep.... [11/n]
Chelsea Miya & Geoffrey Rockwell 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: doi.org/10.3998/jep.... [10/n]
Simon Worthington 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: doi.org/10.3998/jep.... [9/n]
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 doi.org/10.3998/jep.... [8/n]
Janneke Adema 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: doi.org/10.3998/jep.... [7/n]
In ‘Multilingual Scholarly Publishing and Artificial Intelligence Translation Tools: Weighing Social Justice & Climate Justice’ Lynne Bowker @bowkerl.bsky.social weighs these tools potential to aid linguistic diversity with their environmental harm & (non)human costs: doi.org/10.3998/jep.... [6/n]
Editor Janneke Adema 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: doi.org/10.3998/jep.... [5/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]
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]