UCL Press launches the Journal of Experimental Pragmatics, the first dedicated home for a growing international research community

Posted by Ian Caswell on 2026-09-08

Launch date: 8th September 2026 UCL Press is pleased to announce the launch of the Journal of Experimental Pragmatics (JXPrag), the first journal dedicated exclusively to the field of experimental pragmatics. As a Diamond Open Access publication featuring an innovative community-led review model, the journal provides a dedicated home for a mature and rapidly growing interdisciplinary field while [...]

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Rethinking the Economics of Diamond Open Access

Posted by Ian Caswell on 2026-02-24

Sustainability in open access does not have to mean author fees. Collective models like the Open Journals Collective show there is another way. Challenging old assumptions about funding There is a persistent idea in scholarly publishing that if authors are not paying to publish, then someone, somewhere, must be losing out. That notion is too rooted in transactional thinking and not enough in [...]

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