The “Publishing Cultures in Transition: Open Access, Critical Digital Literacy, and Digital Infrastructures” call for papers is open until November 14th, 2025. This special issue will be edited by Klaus Rummler, Natalie Marty, and PKP’s Urooj Nizami. The original, full call for papers was published at medienpaed.com.
Theme
In recent years, scholar-led Open Access (OA) journals have emerged as powerful catalysts for reimagining the practices and politics of academic publishing. These journals, especially those who are following the Diamond Open Access model and are grounded in the principle that neither readers nor authors bear publication costs, are more than alternative distribution channels – they are the outcome of critical engagement with exclusionary and commercialized models of scholarly communication.
Check the Medien Pädagogik Call for Papers for “The Example of Open Journal Systems (OJS by PKP)”.
Invitation
We invite contributions that critically examine and celebrate the cultures and practices of scholar-led (Diamond) Open Access publishing as sites of digital literacy, democratization, and knowledge politics. We are particularly interested in works that address the following interrelated themes:
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Critical Engagement with Scholarly Publishing Norms
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Democratization and Equity in Knowledge Production
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Governance, Infrastructures, and Critical (Digital) Literacy
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The Politics and Sustainability of Open Scholarship
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Infrastructures and Ecologies of Scholar-Led Publishing: OJS and PKP in Practice
Details
The call for papers is open until November 14th, 2025. For details about the themes, contributions, submission, procedure requirements, quality assurance strategy, publication format, author guidelines, editors, and references, please visit the full announcement.