Southern Spaces is a peer-reviewed, multimedia, open access journal published by the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship. Southern Spaces publishes articles, photo essays and images, reviews, presentations, short videos, and monographs about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections. The audience for Southern Spaces consists of researchers and teachers, students in and out of classrooms, and interested general readers. The editorial staff of Southern Spaces consists of co-founder and senior editor Dr. Allen Tullos (co-director of ECDS) and a small group of students from a variety of fields in the Laney Graduate School. Students on the editorial staff learn about all aspects of digital scholarly journal publishing: content creation; working with authors, photographers, videographers, and map makers; researching intellectual property; and software skills for layout and design.
Southern Spaces received approx 210,000 unique visits in calendar year 2024 and published the following pieces:
The Journal of Humanities in Rehabilitation is the first academic journal to explore the intersection of the humanities and rehabilitation sciences. A peer-reviewed, open-access, multi-media publication, JHR has an editorial board of internationally recognized scholars in rehabilitation and health humanities. JHR’s overall goal is to support humanism in healthcare and health science education to promote more holistic approaches to healing.
In 2024, publications included 21 new pieces. Pieces published in 2024 include “Playful Practices: Reflections on Teaching About Narrative Roleplaying Games in Care Contexts,” “A Quarter-Century Post-Olmstead, We’re Still Waiting for Freedom” and “Considerations for Addressing Cisgenderism and Heterosexism in Canadian Outpatient Physiotherapy Clinics”. JHR’s publications this year reached ~1,800 readers a month from 156 countries and over 11,000 subscribers.
Intersections: The Education Journal of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center is a peer-reviewed journal that serves as a dynamic resource for the Woodruff Health Sciences Center and the entire Emory University community by 1) providing a forum for dissemination of health sciences related educational scholarship in all of its forms, 2) supporting a diverse cadre of health science educators in refining their scholarship, writing and reviewing skills, 3) contributing to the evidence base for best teaching and learning practices across disciplines and educational settings, and 4) elevating the stature of health science educators and educational scholarship at Emory.
ECDS digital publishing specialist Dr. Bailey Betik partnered with faculty members and co-editors-in-chief Dr. Linda Lewin, Department of Pediatrics, and Dr. Kathryn Garber, Department of Human Genetics, to design and build the Intersections Journal website, as well as set best practices for publication workflows. Intersections launched in May of 2023.
2023 publications included 13 articles across a diverse array of topic areas, including Trainee Extended Abstracts, Education Innovation Reports, Origin Stories, Perspectives, Short Takes, Education and the Arts.
In Spring 2024, undergraduates in Emory College launched a new research journal Intarsia: Undergraduate Journal of Queer and Feminist Inquiry. This is a student-led, peer-reviewed, open-access, national journal established to promote critical engagement with queer and feminist theory at the undergraduate level. It has been published with the support of Emory’s Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Emory’s Center for Digital Scholarship, and a faculty and graduate student advisory board. The inaugural issue was led by Braden White (class of 2024) and Olivia Gilbert (class of 2026).
ECDS Digital Publication Specialist Dr. Bailey Betik led the design process and advised on editing workflows and project management processes.
