We are pleased to announce the publication of our 30th Anniversary Special Issue, edited by Alyssa Arbuckle and Janneke Adema.

This collection celebrates three decades of JEP. It features reflections from three JEP editorial board members–Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri, John Maxwell, and Jefferson Pooley–as well as an introduction and reflection by co-editors Alyssa Arbuckle and Janneke Adema. Boukacem-Zeghmouri 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 (in French and English). Maxwell telescopes into the Books and Browsers moment, an era that JEP engaged by publishing proceedings from that conference. And Pooley 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. Arbuckle and Adema dig deeper into an ongoing consideration of AI and editorship. Thank you to these authors and to all the JEP authors, editors, peer reviewers, and readers–as well as the tireless Michigan Publishing team–for their contributions to the discursive community that is JEP: past, present, and future.

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Contents: https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/issue/439/info/

Volume 28 • Issue 3 • 2025 • 30th Anniversary Special Issue

Arbuckle, Alyssa, and Janneke Adema. 2025. “Valuing the Role of the Editor: Now and in the Future.” The Journal of Electronic Publishing 28(3). https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.8758

Boukacem-Zeghmouri, Chérifa. 2025. “The Journal of Electronic Publishing: Serving Academic Communities for Thirty Years.” The Journal of Electronic Publishing 28(3). https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.8761                                       

—. 2025. “The Journal of Electronic Publishing, 30 ans dans la vie des communautés académiques. The Journal of Electronic Publishing 28(3). https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.8311

Maxwell, John W. 2025. “On the Books in Browsers Moment.” The Journal of Electronic Publishing 28(3). https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.8294

Pooley, Jefferson. 2025. “The Modal Mode of Thinking about Scholarly Publishing.” The Journal of Electronic Publishing 28(3). https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.8757