Journal of Electronic Publishing

Thank you to all who submitted an abstract to our special issue on "Accessibility in Digital Publishing!" We are grateful to everyone who took the time to contribute and share their work with us.

journals.publishing.umich.eduCall for Papers: Special Issue on Accessibility in Digital PublishingEllen Forget, University of Alberta (eforget@ualberta.ca) John W Maxwell, Simon Fraser University (jmax@sfu.ca) Abstract submission deadline: October 1, 2026 Accessibility is more than ticking boxes o...

10 Sept

Reminder of our Call for Papers! 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/

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13 July

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Katina Rogers

@katinalynn.bsky.social

30 June

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In the JEP issue I put together awhile back, I was lucky enough to edit an early essay by Tavella and Spiegelhofer about this work. It's so beautiful to see their work continue to grow, and in partnership with such an exciting new press. I love everything about it bsky.app/profile/jepu...

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‘In Dialogue with More-Than-Human Wor(l)ds: Collaborative Kinship and Relationality in Digital Publishing’ Elizabeth Tavella & Eva Spiegelhofer explore how publishing with care & knowledge sharing promote biocultural diversity & multispecies scholarly flourishing 🌱🕸️🐾 doi.org/10.3998/jep.... [18/n]

doi.orgIn Dialogue with More-Than-Human Wor(l)ds: Collaborative Kinship and Relationality in Digital PublishingAnimated Wor(l)ds is a multimedia born-digital project with roots in relational practices that honor biocultural diversity and multispecies flourishing. Our community is composed of scholars, artists,...

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Ellen Forget

@ellenforget.bsky.social

8 June

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.

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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.

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8 June

Replying to @alanyliu.bsky.social

Based on interviews w/ anthropologists involved in several data sharing & intermediate publishing initiatives, we pointed to interpretive generativity as an underlying objective (as opposed to reproducibility). Related but not the same as contestation. journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/article/...

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5 June

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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)?

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Ellen Forget

@ellenforget.bsky.social

1 June

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.

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Open Humanities Press

@openhumanities.bsky.social

20 Apr

Announcement: publication of 'Open Research for the Humanities and Social Sciences', new special issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing, edited by Samuel Moore (Cambridge), Jenni Adams (Sheffield) and Miranda Barnes (Cambridge). journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/

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Candice Fillaud

@candicefillaud.bsky.social

20 Apr

Delighted to be part of this special issue dedicated to Open Science and the HSS. Special thanks to the editors and their amazing work! Contribution with @c-bz.bsky.social, @yutong-fei.bsky.social, and @valentinefavel.bsky.social. Data available on Zenodo: zenodo.org/records/1848....

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Candice Fillaud, Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri, Yutong Fei, and Valentine Favel-Kapoian’s “The French HSS Community Speaks Out on Open Science: A Top-Down and Bottom-Up Taxonomy Approach” unpacks French HSS scholars’ criticisms of French national open science policy. doi.org/10.3998/jep.... [16/n]

doi.orgThe French HSS Community Speaks Out on Open Science: A Top-Down and Bottom-Up Taxonomy ApproachThis paper presents a thematic, taxonomy-based analysis that reveals a turn by French HSS (Humanities and Social Sciences) scholars towards criticism of the French national Open Science policy. By exa...

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Andrew S. Hoffman

@inter-apero-bility.bsky.social

dataverse.nl'Emerging Forms of Open Research in Social/Cultural Anthropology' -- Interviews with PECE, EMERGE, and xcol - Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology***Description*** This dataset contains full/un-excerpted transcripts of three interviews, and of a group discussion/peer review session, conducted...

New interview-paper dropped yesterday. I'm so grateful for @timelfen.bsky.social and @marcellaflamme.bsky.social's intellectual companionship, and to PECE/EMERGE/xcol for their amazing work. Complete interview transcripts also now live on the CADS DataverseNL instance: dataverse.nl/dataset.xhtm...

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Marcel LaFlamme

@marcellaflamme.bsky.social

journals.publishing.umich.eduEmerging Forms of Open Research in Social/Cultural AnthropologyThis article explores some current efforts to reconfigure research practices in the field of social/cultural anthropology, in ways that intersect with the open research movement but cannot be reduced ...

Proud to have contributed this interview piece to the just-published MORPHSS special issue on openness in HSS. We profile three initiatives in anthropology that are doing openness in the key of generative reuse rather than reproducibility. journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/article/...

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

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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.

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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]

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doi.orgEmerging Forms of Open Research in Social/Cultural AnthropologyThis article explores some current efforts to reconfigure research practices in the field of social/cultural anthropology, in ways that intersect with the open research movement but cannot be reduced ...

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.

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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]

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OpeningTheFuture

@openingthefuture.bsky.social

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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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Anna Hughes

@anna-r-hughes.bsky.social

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

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LucyCes

@lucyces.bsky.social

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This special issue looks absolutely brilliant. Can't decide which article to read first!

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Copim

@copim.bsky.social

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Featuring articles from @judithfathallah.bsky.social and other members of the team! 👏

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Kevin Sanders

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doi.orgDoing Openness Otherwise: Democratization and OA Publishing in the HSSOpen access (OA) publishing has often been framed through democratization narratives that shape how openness is understood in the humanities and social sciences (HSS). This article examines these narr...

This article is fabulous. I also offer that OA that does not use its alterity to challenge the roots of scholarly publishing's archic rational - i.e. is within the call to and principles of being governed from above - is likely to fail to meet calls for participation w/in the archic paradigm.

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In “Doing Openness Otherwise: Democratization and OA Publishing in HSS,” Rebekka Kiesewetter reveals opportunities for a truly democratized OA publishing landscape by way of situated, collective experimentation. doi.org/10.3998/jep.... [7/n]

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Alyssa Arbuckle

@alyssaarbuckle.bsky.social

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📣 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!

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

doi.orgOpen Infrastructure and the Threat of “Vanishing” Journals: Leveraging Open Knowledge Commons, Open Source Software, and DIY Solutions to Preserve Humanities and Social Sciences ResearchAcademic journals, institutional repositories, and emerging digital technologies have played a crucial role in providing access to scholarship. However, free and unfettered access to research is not a...

In “Open Infrastructure and the Threat of ‘Vanishing’ Journals: Leveraging Open Knowledge Commons, Open Source Software & DIY Solutions to Preserve Humanities & Social Sciences Research”, Jensen et al. explore interventions to address vulnerable digital scholarship. doi.org/10.3998/jep.... [19/n]

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doi.orgMobilizing Knowledge in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Exploring Competing Articulations of Openness in Policy and PracticeKnowledge mobilization (KMb) is a policy discourse and framework used by major Canadian research funding bodies to promote and monitor the eﬃciency of knowledge transfer between the university and soc...

Corinna MacDonald’s “Mobilizing Knowledge in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Exploring Competing Articulations of Openness in Policy and Practice” considers knowledge mobilization (KMb) requirements in Canadian HE institutions & expressing public research value. doi.org/10.3998/jep.... [17/n]

doi.orgDo Infrastructures Have Epistemologies? Studying an Open Access Infrastructure for SSH from WithinOver the past 30 years, digital infrastructures for open science in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) have flourished as technical means to address the supposed needs of communities of practice...

Simon Dumas Primbault’s “Do Infrastructures Have Epistemologies? Studying an Open Access Infrastructure for SSH from Within” examines the socio-epistemic features of HSS infrastructures with specific reference to OpenEdition Lab. doi.org/10.3998/jep.... [18/n]

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doi.orgTensions et zones d’ombre autour de la science ouverte en SHS en FranceÀ l’heure où la science ouverte s’impose comme un cadre structurant des politiques de recherche, cette revue de littérature critique explore les débats qui accompagnent son appropriation dans les scie...

Ioanna Faïta’s “Tensions et zones d’ombre autour de la science ouverte en SHS en France” (Tensions and gray areas surrounding open science in the humanities & social sciences in France) examines controversies in adoption of open science within French HSS communities. doi.org/10.3998/jep.... [15/n]

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doi.org“Well, Parts of Linguistics Is Open…”: Insights into Linguists’ Diverse Understandings of Open ScienceBroadly defined as the study of language, linguistics is a diverse field spanning many disciplines. Recent studies on the prevalence of Questionable Research Practices (QRPs) in linguistics (e.g. Isbe...

Elen Le Foll’s article ‘“Well, parts of linguistics is open’: Insights into Linguists’ Diverse Understandings of Open Science” draws on survey data & interviews with linguists, highlighting field-specific challenges, including issues of copyright & data privacy. doi.org/10.3998/jep.... [13/n]

doi.orgOpen Practices, Closed Realities? Archaeological Perspectives on Open Research PracticesOpen research frameworks alongside encompassing principles such as FAIR and CARE, have seen an increase in uptake across the global academic landscape in recent years. However, their implementation re...

Claire Davin, Jess Beck, and Lai Ma’s “Open Practices, Closed Realities? Archaeological Perspectives on Open Research Practices” presents findings from in-depth interviews with archaeologists, surfacing barriers to engagement with openness in this field. doi.org/10.3998/jep.... [14/n]

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doi.orgOpen Scholarship in the Humanities: An OA Author InterventionIn dialogue with Marcel Knöchelmann’s (2019) call for a discourse of openness for the humanities, this article employs an autoethnographic narrative informed by cultural and sociological theory to exp...

In “Open Scholarship in the Humanities: An OA Author Intervention,” Judith Fathallah draws on her own experience of open access book publishing to highlight the need for more ethical forms of publishing that are less beholden to traditional structures of prestige. doi.org/10.3998/jep.... [11/n]

doi.orgNegotiating Openness under Authoritarian Risk: Feminist Open Data Sharing in Hong KongOpen data has become increasingly common in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine (STEMM) in recent years, but its promise falters when the “data” are people’s stories, such as i...

LLH Wong & T-YY Wong, in “Negotiating Openness Under Authoritarian Risk: Feminist Open Data Sharing in Hong Kong,” consider the ethics & governance of data sharing as regards qualitative data from politically precarious or authoritarian contexts. doi.org/10.3998/jep.... [12/n]

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doi.orgA Prototyping Renaissance: Form, Content, and Scale in Open Publication in the HumanitiesThis essay argues that open research is, or should be, constitutionally central to the humanities, but going beyond content-only notions of “open access.” We make a case, based on the 16th-century Ald...

In “A Prototyping Renaissance: Form, Content, and Scale in Open Publication in the Humanities,” John W Maxwell and Alessandra Bordini consider prototyping as a way to reframe our ideas of open research in the humanities beyond content-only notions of open access. doi.org/10.3998/jep.... [9/n]

doi.orgWhat Does Openness Mean for the Humanities? Redefining Ethical and Reflexive Practices in Open ResearchNotions of openness in research have largely been shaped by scientiﬁc principles of transparency, eﬃciency, and replicability, operationalized through standardized workﬂows, interoperable infrastructu...

Adeola Eze, in “What Does Openness Mean for the Humanities? Redefining Ethical and Reflexive Practices in Open Research”, examines the discourse underpinning open science and reinterprets it for the humanities with close attention paid to the work of Umberto Eco. doi.org/10.3998/jep.... [10/n]

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doi.orgOpen at the Level of (Para)text: Critical Intertextuality and Discursive Notation as Open Research Practices in the HumanitiesThis article contends that open research practices and principles are embedded in humanities research paradigms in ways that are not currently visible within either the open science–dominated framewor...

In “Open at the Level of (Para)Text: Critical Intertextuality and Discursive Notation as Open Research Practices in the Humanities,” Jenni Adams explores textual & paratextual practices to support transparency in situated and epistemically appropriate ways. doi.org/10.3998/jep.... [8/n]

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doi.orgOpen Research for the Humanities and Social Science: Editors’ IntroductionThis editorial introduces the special issue on Open Research for the Humanities and Social Science.

Editors Samuel Moore, Jenni Adams, and Miranda Barnes open the issue with ‘Open Research for the Humanities and Social Sciences: Editors’ Introduction,’ outlining key questions asked within the issue and introducing the contributions: doi.org/10.3998/jep.... [5/n]

doi.orgOpen for Debate: Situating Open Research for the Humanities in a Neoliberal SettingOpen research has been widely promoted as a means of democratising knowledge, yet its uptake in the humanities has remained limited and frequently marked by ambivalence. In the context of growing inst...

In “Open for Debate: Situating Open Research for the Humanities in a Neoliberal Setting,” Beatriz Barrocas Ferreira addresses the underlying politics of open research in the humanities, calling for development of a more just and genuinely open knowledge system. doi.org/10.3998/jep.... [6/n]

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The contributions to this issue highlight tensions in current open research discourse, but also reveal the many opportunities for discussions of openness to broaden out and encompass a greater variety of practices and applications across a range of disciplines. [3/n]

The issue includes the following contributions: [4/n]

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

This timely and essential collection considers how dominant understandings of open research and open science relate to HSS disciplines and how they are resisted, asking if AHSS disciplines need their own conceptions of openness, or if OR itself needs to “humanise”. [2/n]

journals.publishing.umich.eduCall for Papers: Special Issue on The Future of Diamond Open Access: Possibilities, Perils, and PathwaysAbstract 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 …

10 Mar

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

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10 Mar

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

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Katina Rogers

@katinalynn.bsky.social

5 Mar

Writing for JEP is a real pleasure. Highly recommend submitting an abstract if you work on issues related to open access -->

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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

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Open Humanities Press

12 Feb

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.

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Alyssa Arbuckle

@alyssaarbuckle.bsky.social

11 Feb

We want to hear your Diamond OA thoughts (and maybe even dreams?!) CFP deadline March 23

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