Scholarly publishing is evolving, and there is a need to understand and design and build new workflows and technology to support emerging publishing processes.
A recent development in publishing is the increased attention to accessibility. But this needs to be more than just making content accessible. The systems involved in the creation, development, production, and dissemination of the content need to be accessible as well.
Technological interventions into publishing processes
The publication of experimental, digital work engenders different roles and relationalities, requiring “a kind of collaboration among authors, editors, and technical staff that is quite different from the traditional publishing process
Recognizing that the many facets of scholars’ identities as people has a direct impact on their professional lives, we identified the lack of peer review as a clear deterrent to building up digital scholarship in these underrepresented fields in digital humanities.
By understanding how Chinese authors want to be communicated with, an integrated and automated publisher platform was developed to improve communication delivery and increase inclusivity.
The recent shift towards DEI-related values motivates technology providers to catch up and address the voids alongside key stakeholders, while facing cultural and technical challenges.
How does the essay jam both capture productive tensions in community-led, community-responsive publishing, and suggest future directions for structuring collaborative writing activities?
Producing books collaboratively and rapidly by concurrent writing, editing, and producing processes.
Note from Managing Editor:
Why the road aesthetic, you might ask. First off, thanks for noticing (or at least for scrolling all the way to the end of the series)!
Secondly, to answer the question, I think that any good infrastructure — from streets to editorial management systems — should feel invisible. You really only notice them when something is wrong: there’s a pothole, the submission system is clunky, it’s not pedestrian friendly, it’s not author friendly. Moreover, good infrastructure serves many needs. It accommodates the actions of walkers, bikers, cars, semi-trucks or authors, peer-reviewers, editors, and managers. The landscape and ecosystems matter in how they’re constructed and used by the community. There are policies and bureaucracy created surrounding how the infrastructure is built, who it serves, and how it’s used.
There’s not a one-size-fits-all ideal road or editorial management system. But thankfully so! There are so many places to journey towards, and I hope that this series continues the conversations, critiques, and reflections on the roads (both metaphorical with regard to editorial management systems and literal roads) we use and the pathways we’d like to create going forward.
