Journal: Oral Archives Journal Issue: Volume 4 Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2027

The Call for Papers for Volume 4 (2028) of Oral Archives Journal is now open.

Oral Archives Journal (OAr) is an international peer-reviewed journal jointly published by USiena Press and Firenze University Press. The journal adopts a Diamond Open Access model, with no costs for authors or readers, and promotes the academic recognition of research articles and data papers based on oral archival materials.

OAr invites submissions on oral archives as cultural, scientific, documentary, and technological objects. Contributions may examine how spoken sources are collected, described, preserved, interpreted, made accessible, and reused across different institutional, disciplinary, and community contexts.

The journal welcomes contributions in three main areas: the life cycle of oral archives, including production, curation, conservation, digitisation, metadata description, and reuse; cross-cutting issues such as transcription, speech technologies, legal frameworks, research ethics, copyright, data protection, informed consent, access, licensing, and sensitive data; and broader reflections on infrastructures, policies, networks, educational initiatives, conferences, and emerging trends in the field of oral archives. Manuscripts should be between 30,000 and 50,000 characters, including references, and may be submitted in English, Italian, or French. Each submission must include an abstract in English of no more than 150 words and five keywords in English. For Volume 4, manuscripts should follow the Generic Style Rules for Linguistics and must be prepared for blind peer review.

The journal website is available here:https://riviste.fupress.net/index.php/oarj/index

The archive of published issues is available here:https://riviste.fupress.net/index.php/oarj/issue/archive

The full Call for Papers is available here:https://riviste.fupress.net/index.php/oarj/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/70

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics General Linguistics Language Documentation Sociolinguistics Text/Corpus Linguistics