Finally, Jeff Pooley @jpooley.bsky.social 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: doi.org/10.3998/jep.... [5/5]

John Maxwell telescopes into the Books and Browsers moment, an era that JEP engaged by publishing proceedings from that conference: doi.org/10.3998/jep.... [4/5]

Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri @c-bz.bsky.social 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:

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In JEP 28(3), co-editors Alyssa Arbuckle @alyssaarbuckle.bsky.social & Janneke Adema reflect on editorship in “Valuing the Role of the Editor: Now and in the Future” and dig deeper into an ongoing consideration of AI and editorship: doi.org/10.3998/jep.... [2/5]

Finally, Maddalena Fragnito reviews Anne Baillot’s book From Handwriting to Footprinting, published by Open Book Publishers @openbookpublish.bsky.social‬ in her book review ‘Rethinking Textuality in the Climate Crisis’: doi.org/10.3998/jep.... [12/n]

In ‘Sustainability and Resilience: A Critical Review of Sustainability Literature & Implications to Resilience of U.S. Academic Libraries, Archives, and Information Systems’ Kaitlyn Rich imagines community-engaged decentralized paths based on academic-archival collabs: doi.org/10.3998/jep.... [11/n]

Chelsea Miya & Geoffrey Rockwell argue in ‘Platitudes: The Carbon Weight of the Post-Platform Scholarly Web’ for a minimal computing–inspired approach to web design to push back against the hegemony of big tech & adopt more eco-conscious forms of knowledge production: doi.org/10.3998/jep.... [10/n]

Simon Worthington et al., in ‘Climate Justice in Electronic Publishing: Supporting Global South Participation in Climate Science Through Semantic Publishing’ present a model to open up & make the IPCC climate reports more accessible, beyond the constraints of the PDF: doi.org/10.3998/jep.... [9/n]

Angus Lyall, Mark Ortiz & Emily Billo’s 'Greenwashing at Elsevier: A Political Ecology of Corporate Publishing' republished from @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social‬ details greenwashing rituals at Elsevier as form of corporate labor governance to immobilize climate activism doi.org/10.3998/jep.... [8/n]

Janneke Adema argues in ‘Strategies for Climate Justice in the Academic Publishing Industry: From Pledges to Direct Action’ that the industry needs stronger commitments & climate governance (including legislation & penalties) that go beyond self-regulatory frameworks: doi.org/10.3998/jep.... [7/n]

In ‘Multilingual Scholarly Publishing and Artificial Intelligence Translation Tools: Weighing Social Justice & Climate Justice’ Lynne Bowker @bowkerl.bsky.social‬ weighs these tools potential to aid linguistic diversity with their environmental harm & (non)human costs: doi.org/10.3998/jep.... [6/n]

Editor Janneke Adema opens the issue with ‘Editor’s Gloss. Publishing and Climate Justice: Dialogue and Action,’ in which she outlines the questions the issue asks while introducing the contributions and the ways in which they offer real examples of meaningful change: doi.org/10.3998/jep.... [5/n]

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

The contributions to this issue all share a desire to further the dialogue about climate (in)justice in scholarly publishing. But they also offer real examples of how scholars, publishers, libraries, universities and infrastructure providers can start to make meaningful change in this context [3/n]

This important collection captures urgent and critical research that starts to outline the challenges the climate emergency poses to the publishing sector. The issue asks: What is the role and responsibility of the publishing industry in tackling climate change? [2/n]