Special Issue: Multilingual Publishing and Scholarship (2024) | The Journal of Electronic Publishing

The Journal of Electronic Publishing (JEP) is incredibly excited to announce the publication of a 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 publicac