I edited a special issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing on Publishing and Climate Justice, which also includes an article I wrote: “Strategies for Climate Justice in the Academic Publishing Industry: From Pledges to Direct Action”. More info about the issue underneath.

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New Special issue of JEP: Publishing & Climate Justice

We at the Journal of Electronic Publishing (JEP) are incredibly excited to announce the publication of our new special issue on Publishing and Climate Justice, edited by Janneke Adema. 

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? The contributions to this issue all share a desire to further the dialogue about climate (in)justice in scholarly publishing, highlighting the paucity of research on this topic. But they also offer real examples of ways in which scholars, publishers, libraries, universities, and infrastructure providers can start to make meaningful change in this context. 

Please share this special issue with anyone in your network who may be interested in Publishing and Climate Justice! 

Contents: https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/issue/386/info/

Volume 28 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Special Issue: Publishing and Climate Justice

Adema, J., (2025) “Editor’s Gloss. Publishing and Climate Justice: Dialogue and Action”, The Journal of Electronic Publishing 28(2). doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.7801

Bowker, L., (2025) “Multilingual Scholarly Publishing and Artificial Intelligence Translation Tools: Weighing Social Justice and Climate Justice”, The Journal of Electronic Publishing 28(2). doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.7100

Adema, J., (2025) “Strategies for Climate Justice in the Academic Publishing Industry: From Pledges to Direct Action”, The Journal of Electronic Publishing 28(2). doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.7096 

Lyall, A., Ortiz, M., Billo, E., (2025) “Greenwashing at Elsevier: A political ecology of corporate publishing”, The Journal of Electronic Publishing 28(2). doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.7482 (republished from the Journal of Political Ecology)

Worthington, S., Yadav, G., Murray-Rust, P., Kumari, R., Hegde, S., Bhadra, P., (2025) “Climate Justice in Electronic Publishing: A New Approach Supporting Global South Participation”, The Journal of Electronic Publishing 28(2). doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.7206 

Miya, C., & Rockwell, G., (2025) “Platitudes: The Carbon Weight of the Post-Platform Scholarly Web”, The Journal of Electronic Publishing 28(2). doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.7247 

Rich, K.E., (2025), “Sustainability and Resilience: A Critical Review of Sustainability Literature and Implications to Resilience of U.S. Academic Libraries, Archives, and Information Systems”, The Journal of Electronic Publishing 28(2). doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.7211 

Fragnito, M., (2025), “Rethinking Textuality in the Climate Crisis. Review of Anne Baillot, From Handwriting to Footprinting: Text and Heritage in the Age of Climate Crisis”, The Journal of Electronic Publishing 28(2). doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.7637