35.2897, FYI: Announcing 'Data Articles' in the Australian Journal of Linguistics

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Subject: 35.2897, FYI: Announcing 'Data Articles' in the Australian Journal of Linguistics

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Date: 18-Oct-2024
From: Jean Mulder [journal at als.asn.au]
Subject: Announcing 'Data Articles' in the Australian Journal of Linguistics


Linguistics in Australia and the Pacific region has a long tradition
of creating and working with collections of community language use.
Such corpora provide invaluable data for linguistic analysis, while
also representing a trove of knowledge about Australia’s social and
cultural history. Many of these corpora, however, are difficult to
find and use – they are not registered in searchable catalogues, and
they lack published descriptions. To help address this, the Australian
Journal of Linguistics (AJL) is introducing a new type of article, to
be known as a ‘Data Article’, in which the data take the centre stage.
The purpose of these articles is threefold: to showcase language
collections in Australia and the Pacific region; to share design
principles and data management practices; and to highlight some
findings that have arisen from the kinds of analyses that such
collections have facilitated.

Data Articles should be 6,000-8,000 words total (including
references). They should include information about data collection
protocols; the community under study; the workflow for establishing
the corpus; ethical considerations; data availability; and a summary
of relevant findings and implications. A corpus reference (with a doi
for the dataset) should also be included.

A sample of Data Articles can be found in the recently published
Special Issue on ‘Language Collections in Australia’ (2024, Issue 44,
Volume 2-3) (available open access at
https://www.tandfonline.com/action/showAxaArticles?journalCode=cajl20),
edited by Catherine Travis and Li Nguyen. This work was supported by
the Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA).

Aims and scope of AJL
AJL is the official journal of the Australian Linguistic Society and
the premier international journal on language in Australia and the
region. The focus of the journal is research on Australian Indigenous
languages, Australian Englishes, community languages in Australia,
language in Australian society, and languages of the
Australian-Pacific region. The journal publishes papers that make a
significant theoretical, methodological and/or practical contribution
to the field and are accessible to a broad audience.

Peer Review Policy
All research articles in AJL have undergone rigorous double-blind peer
review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by
two anonymous referees.

Open Access Publishing
Authors can publish open access in this journal. This will be at no
charge if the (first) author is at one of the participating
institutions covered.  To find out if open access publishing support
is currently available at your institution go to
https://www.tandfonline.com/openaccess/members.

For information on how to submit your research or data article go to
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/cajl20.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics




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