Multilingualism
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Managing multilingual and non-English language content in repositories
Multilingualism is critical for a healthy, inclusive, and diverse research communications landscape. After decades of policies that have directed researchers to publish in English, we are starting to see a reversal of this trend. The UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science, for example, calls on member states to encourage “multilingualism in the practice of science, in…
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COAR community consultation on managing non-English and multilingual content in repositories
COAR welcomes your input on 16 draft recommendations for managing non-English and multilingual content in repositories. These recommendations were developed by a COAR Task Force and are meant to provide good practice advice on depositing, managing, and curating multilingual and non-English language content in repositories. Multilingualism is a critical characteristic of a healthy, inclusive, and…
Categories: Multilingualism
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Is there a case for accepting machine translated scholarly content in repositories?
May 8, 2023 (Photo by Romain Vignes on Unsplash) Christophe Dony, Iryna Kuchma, Tomasz Neugebauer, Jean-François Nomine, Milica Ševkušić, and Kathleen Shearer Multilingualism is a critical characteristic of a healthy, inclusive, and diverse research communications landscape. However, multilingualism presents a particular challenge for the discovery of research outputs. Although researchers and other information seekers may…
Categories: Multilingualism
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COAR Announces first recommendation for supporting multilingual and non-English content in repositories
Multilingualism is a critical characteristic of a healthy, inclusive, and diverse research communications landscape. The Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication asserts that the disqualification of local or national languages in academic publishing is the most important – and often forgotten – factor that prevents societies from using and taking advantage of the research…