{"id":932,"date":"2026-05-21T02:22:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T02:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casrai.org\/wp\/dictionary\/term\/multilingual-scholarship\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T02:22:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T02:22:56","slug":"multilingual-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"dictionary_term","link":"http:\/\/casrai.org\/wp\/dictionary\/term\/multilingual-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Multilingual scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>English has become the de facto language of international academic publishing, yet most of the world&#039;s researchers and publics work primarily in other languages. Multilingual scholarship advocates for: language diversity in publishing venues; multilingual abstracts and summaries; recognition of non-English outputs in assessment; translation support; and infrastructure that makes non-English research discoverable. The Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication (2019), the OPERAS multilingualism task force, and UNESCO&#039;s Recommendation on Open Science (2021) all explicitly support multilingual scholarship.<\/p>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication, 2019 (helsinki-initiative.org). UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science, 2021.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English has become the de facto language of international academic publishing, yet most of the world&#039;s researchers and publics work primarily in other languages. Multilingual scholarship advocates for: language diversity in publishing venues; multilingual abstracts and summaries; recognition of non-English outputs in assessment; translation support; and infrastructure that makes non-English research discoverable. The Helsinki Initiative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"template":"","meta":{"_def_operational":"Scholarly communication that recognises, supports and produces research outputs in multiple languages, in contrast to English-only norms that dominate international academic publishing.","_examples":"[\"A funder accepts grant applications in multiple national languages and translates summaries for cross-panel review.\",\"A journal publishes article abstracts in three languages including the language of the study population.\"]","_counter_examples":"[\"An assessment policy that treats non-English publications as automatically less valuable.\",\"A search strategy in a systematic review that excludes non-English sources without justification.\"]","_aliases":"[\"Linguistic diversity in scholarship\",\"Multilingual research communication\"]","_canonical_uri":"https:\/\/casrai.org\/dictionary\/term\/multilingual-scholarship","_status":"stable","_version":"v2026.2","_priority":"secondary","_stewardship_canonical_at":"","_stewardship_stewarded_by":"CASRAI Editorial Board","_relationships":"[{\"type\":\"related\",\"target_slug\":\"Bibliodiversity (DOAJ\/AmeliCA\/Redalyc)\"},{\"type\":\"related\",\"target_slug\":\"Geographic editorial diversity\"},{\"type\":\"related\",\"target_slug\":\"Equitable peer review\"},{\"type\":\"related\",\"target_slug\":\"Global-South publishing\"}]","_translations_status":"{\"en\":\"approved\"}","_jats_role_uri":"","_legacy_source":"imported from CASRAI dictionary v2026.2 batch (2026-05-20)","footnotes":""},"dictionary_domain":[31],"class_list":["post-932","dictionary_term","type-dictionary_term","status-publish","hentry","dictionary_domain-knowledge-equity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casrai.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary_term\/932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casrai.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary_term"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casrai.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/dictionary_term"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casrai.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary_term\/932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casrai.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"dictionary_domain","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casrai.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary_domain?post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}