Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
A funder accepts grant applications in multiple national languages and translates summaries for cross-panel review.
- Is an instance
A journal publishes article abstracts in three languages including the language of the study population.
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
An assessment policy that treats non-English publications as automatically less valuable.
- Not an instance
A search strategy in a systematic review that excludes non-English sources without justification.
Editorial commentary
English has become the de facto language of international academic publishing, yet most of the world'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's Recommendation on Open Science (2021) all explicitly support multilingual scholarship.
References
- Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication, 2019 (helsinki-initiative.org). UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science, 2021.
Also known as
Linguistic diversity in scholarship · Multilingual research communication
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
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