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 2023, JHR editorial staff with the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship implemented the rolling publication model initiated the previous year with the help of former Digital Scholarship Specialist, Dr. Kayla Shipp. With this new model, JHR was able to offer readers new material at four different time points throughout the year (May, August, October, and December) and publish a total of 13 new articles. The new homepage layout implemented this year as well provided opportunities for JHR to highlight numerous “encore articles” from the archives – giving longevity and new context to previously published articles.
This year’s publications included 13 new articles across May, August, October, and December issues along with 14 encore articles that were reintroduced to readers. 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.
Sacred Matters is serious fun for serious scholars and intellectuals who want to think outside the religion box. Religion doesn’t matter here, but Sacred Matters is only and exclusively interested in religious matters, with its own peculiar twists and takes on what that even means in the 21st century. Sacred Matters features articles, commentaries, podcasts, and other media that bring sacred notions and activities often excluded from conversations about religion and spirituality to the fore. The scope of topics is expansive but culture-bound, so everything from science to popular culture; theology to sexuality; drugs to the environment–and more–is covered.
2023 publications included 6 articles across a diverse array of topics, including interviews with authors and excerpts from monographs on Vodou, Turkish fortunetelling cafes, and the Ismaili Muslim diaspora.
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.
In 2023, more than 200,000 unique visitors came to the Southern Spaces site. During its nineteenth year, the journal continued its “COVID in Viral Times” series, launched in 2022, and guest-edited by Dr. Mary Frederickson. This ongoing series features blog posts, as well as longer commentaries, essays, articles and media productions that address the public health and political implications of the COVID-19 pandemic from multiple perspectives. See, for example, managing editor Ra’Niqua Lee’s “End of the Pandemic?” or the staff interview with Michelle Fishburne, “Encountering COVID.” Examples of other Southern Spaces publications in 2023 Prof. Thomas Hallock’s article “Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida,” which combines the author’s extensive historical narrative with maps and drone video footage of this urban ecosystem, providing a study in the recovery of an urban environment; a well-researched critical review essay by Prof. Scott Matthews of Florida State College, “Segregation’s Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O.N. Pruitt”; and “A Green Democratic Revolution,” a chapter from a new book by Belgian philosopher Chantal Mouffe.