Journal of Electronic Publishing

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A peer-reviewed, diamond open access journal on contemporary scholarly publishing issues and practices. Co-edited by Alyssa Arbuckle and Janneke Adema, supported by @michiganpublishing.bsky.social https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/

Hey #DHSI2026 #DigitalHumanities folks. If any of you are working on accessibility in digital publishing—broadly defined—please consider submitting to this special issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing! Feel free to email or DM me for more information.

Journal of Electronic Publishing@jepub.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New Call for Papers alert! Consider submitting to our forthcoming special issue on "Accessibility in Digital Publishing" edited by Ellen Forget @ellenforget.bsky.social and John W Maxwell. CfP available here: journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/news/253/ Abstracts due October 1 2026.

That’s more defensible & actually sets up productive conversations. For instance, @jepub.bsky.social is a vital venue for RoR-adjacent research, which is a publisher-supported DOA journal. In what ways does it solve (or not) percieved issues w/ DOA (like limiting the labor required from editors)?

I am very excited to be editing a special issue of @jepub.bsky.social "Accessibility in Digital Publishing" with John Maxwell! Please feel free to reach out via email or here via DM if you have any questions! We are looking for scholarly, industry, and technical submissions.

Journal of Electronic Publishing@jepub.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New Call for Papers alert! Consider submitting to our forthcoming special issue on "Accessibility in Digital Publishing" edited by Ellen Forget @ellenforget.bsky.social and John W Maxwell. CfP available here: journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/news/253/ Abstracts due October 1 2026.

Our article is part of a great special issue of @jepub.bsky.social, itself part of the work of an exceptional project rethinking open research from the humanities & social sciences (@morphss.bsky.social), led by @samuelmoore.org. We are really excited to be able to contribute to this project.

Journal of Electronic Publishing@jepub.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We at @jepub.bsky.social are excited to announce the publication of our new special issue on Open Research for the Humanities and Social Sciences, edited by Samuel Moore, Jenni Adams, and Miranda Barnes! journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/issue/45... [1/n]

NEW PUBLICATION ALERT! Andrew, Marcel, & I introduce & draw some conclusions from a series of interviews w/ anthropologists experimenting w/ data sharing, process documentation, intermediate publishing models, & infrastructure building to enable new forms of collaborative knowledge making.

Journal of Electronic Publishing@jepub.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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. doi.org/10.3998/jep.... [20/n]

A really fantastic line-up of great contributions, with some excellent thoughts on open infrastructuring, among other things! Have a peek 👇 journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/issue/45...

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Journal of Electronic Publishing@jepub.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We at @jepub.bsky.social are excited to announce the publication of our new special issue on Open Research for the Humanities and Social Sciences, edited by Samuel Moore, Jenni Adams, and Miranda Barnes! journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/issue/45... [1/n]

A bumper issue on Open Research for the Humanities and Social Sciences ... featuring members of @copim.bsky.social 👇

The Journal of Electronic Publishing | Issue: Issue: 1(29) Open Research for the Humanities and Social Sciences (2026)

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Journal of Electronic Publishing@jepub.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We at @jepub.bsky.social are excited to announce the publication of our new special issue on Open Research for the Humanities and Social Sciences, edited by Samuel Moore, Jenni Adams, and Miranda Barnes! journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/issue/45... [1/n]

📣 New JEP special issue live! Huge thanks to special issue editors @samuelmoore.org @jenniad.bsky.social @mirandab-oa.bsky.social and all authors and reviewers for your brilliance. And of course to @michiganpublishing.bsky.social too!

Journal of Electronic Publishing@jepub.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We at @jepub.bsky.social are excited to announce the publication of our new special issue on Open Research for the Humanities and Social Sciences, edited by Samuel Moore, Jenni Adams, and Miranda Barnes! journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/issue/45... [1/n]

"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?"

Call for Papers: Special Issue on The Future of Diamond Open Access: Possibilities, Perils, and Pathways

Abstract submission deadline: March 23rd 2026 In recent years, Diamond Open Access (OA) has risen to the fore in the ongoing exploration of which knowledge production models are both ideal …

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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...

The Modal Mode of Thinking about Scholarly Publishing

The essay argues that the study of scholarly communication would benefit from attending to a “modal” sensibility—that is, a self-conscious sensitivity to the differences that different mediums make in understanding published works of scholarship. The essay critiques the unreflective textualism that dominates the conversation on publishing. The claim is that the primacy of text, as the sovereign medium of academic communication, is a largely invisible parochialism. The essay points to examples and traditions of multi-modal publishing as an entry point to taking the medium-specificity of publishing formats as an object of analysis. Such experimentation has followed, sometimes closely, the emergence of new mediums of storage and transmission within the societies that scholars work. The mid-twentieth century birth of the modern medium concept made multi-modality a conceivable, self-conscious project. Even so, the discourse on academic publishing has rarely registered the implications, including for inherited text-based formats. The essay concludes with a call for media scholars, curiously underrepresented in the discourse, to take up this task, with reference to pioneering works in the field.

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