We at the Journal of Electronic Publishing (JEP) are incredibly excited to announce the publication of our new special issue on Multilingual Publishing & Scholarship, co-edited by Janneke Adema, Alyssa Arbuckle, and Élika Ortega. 

This special issue collects and curates a set of reflections that illuminate the current state of multilingual publishing and demonstrate the actionable advances in multilingual projects, alongside a reflection on the editorial praxis of JEP. This collection asks: How do we integrate and practice the value of multilingualism into a more equitable and epistemically just scholarly communication and publishing system? Such a question functions as a preliminary theoretical lens through which this issue may be perceived. Taken together, the pieces in this special issue speak to the varying facets of multilingual scholarship and publishing in the 21st century. As Anssi Paasi astutely summarizes, “languages condition the making of scientific knowledge. Indeed, there is an uneven geopolitics of knowledge embedded in communication. Academic fields largely exist through publication forums that are structured asymmetrically in global space” (2015, 510). In editing this special issue, we wish to draw attention to the linguistic production of knowledge in academia and add our voice to the chorus of those calling for a more diverse, multilingual scholarly communication ecosystem.

Please share this special issue with anyone in your network who may be interested in multilingual publishing and scholarship! 

Contents: https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/issue/262/info/

Volume 27 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Special Issue: Multilingual Publishing and Scholarship

Arbuckle, A. & Adema, J., (2024) “On Journals and Communities: A Note from JEP’s Co-Editors”, The Journal of Electronic Publishing 27(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.6251

Arbuckle, A., Adema, J. & Ortega, É., (2024) “Editors’ Gloss: The Problem with Monolingualism in Academic Knowledge Production”, The Journal of Electronic Publishing 27(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.6258

Adema, J., Arbuckle, A. & Ortega, É., (2024) “Glosa de las editoras: El problema del monolingüismo en la producción de conocimiento académico”, The Journal of Electronic Publishing 27(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.6611

Adema, J., Arbuckle, A. & Ortega, É., (2024) “Glossaire de l'éditeur : Le problème du monolinguisme dans la production du savoir universitaire”, The Journal of Electronic Publishing 27(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.6612

Risam, R., (2024) “Another Workflow Is Possible: Building Trust and Relinquishing Control for Multilingual Digital Publishing Futures”, The Journal of Electronic Publishing 27(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.5384

Kiesewetter, R., (2024) “Reframing the "International" in UK International Scholarship: Perspectives on Diversity and Equity beyond English as Lingua Franca and Multilingualism”, The Journal of Electronic Publishing 27(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.5383

Mais, C., (2024) “Publish (in English) or Perish: Greek Academia and the Imposition of English Language”, The Journal of Electronic Publishing 27(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.5329

Chowdhary, R., (2024) “Shifting Paradigms of Multilingual Publishing and Scholarship in India”, The Journal of Electronic Publishing 27(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.5592

Sibeko, J. & Setaka-Bapela, M., (2024) “Challenges in Intellectualizing Sesotho for Use in Academic Publications”, The Journal of Electronic Publishing 27(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.5408

Schnell, B., (2024) “Multilingual Scholarly Publishing: Exploring the Perceptions, Attitudes, and Experiences of Plurilingual Scholars in Foreign Language Publication”, The Journal of Electronic Publishing 27(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.5416

Hsu, S., Soon, W., Lee, T., Lee, C. & Cox, G., (2024) “Collective Translation as Forking (分岔)”, The Journal of Electronic Publishing 27(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.5377

del Rio Riande, G. & Lujano Vilchis, I., (2024) “¿Qué tan equilibrado está el multilingüismo en la publicación científica? Un análisis global desde la base de datos del Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)”, The Journal of Electronic Publishing 27(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.5605

del Rio Riande, G. & Lujano Vilchis, I., (2024) “How Balanced Is Multilingualism in Scholarly Journals? A Global Analysis Using the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) Database”, The Journal of Electronic Publishing 27(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.6448

Quiroga, R., Hawes, A., Sichani, A. & Chevrie, C., (2024) “Sustainable Growth of Multilingual Open Publishing Projects: The Case of Programming Historian”, The Journal of Electronic Publishing 27(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.5571

Dony, C., Kuchma, I. & Ševkušić, M., (2024) “Dealing with Multilingualism and Non-English Content in Open Repositories: Challenges and Perspectives”, The Journal of Electronic Publishing 27(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.5455

Snijder, R. & Kingsley, D., (2024) “Research Assessment Systems and the Effects of Publication Language: Manifestations in the Directory of Open Access Books”, The Journal of Electronic Publishing 27(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.4847

Dombrowski, Q., Goregaokar, M., Joeng (Yang), B. & Kamran, A., (2024) “Encoding Multilingualism: Technical Affordances of Multilingual Publication from Manuscripts to Unicode and OpenType”, The Journal of Electronic Publishing 27(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.5528

Bascuñan-Wiley, N. & Jungsuk Howard, M., (2024) “Illegible Multiculturalisms: Making, Digesting, and Translating Empanadas and Doenjang-jjigae Within Digital Monolingualism”, The Journal of Electronic Publishing 27(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.5433

Tew, S. & Jerome, M., (2024) “Recetas de las Américas: A Case Study in Hugo Static Site Generator for Bilingual Web Publishing”, The Journal of Electronic Publishing 27(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.5603

Tew, S. & Jerome, M., (2024) “Recetas de las Américas: Un estudio de caso del generador de sitios estáticos Hugo para la publicación bilingüe en la Web”, The Journal of Electronic Publishing 27(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.6449

Bowker, L., (2024) “Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication: How Far Can Technology Take Us and What Else Can We Do?”, The Journal of Electronic Publishing 27(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.6262