Did you miss us? We’re back again with all the Journals news from the first half of 2025 in this Journals Q1–Q2 UPdate!

We are proud to announce that we have participated in a new open access model through Project MUSE for two of our journals. Project MUSE’s “Subscribe to Open” (S2O) program is an equitable open access model for scholarly journals that enables subscription journals to open access to their current content without article processing charges (APCs). As this year’s issues come out and anytime in the future, you will be able to access Journal of Aesthetic Education Volume 59 and Music and the Moving Image Volume 18 for free online. 

Our other big news from the first half of the year is that the Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association is now available on the Scholarly Publishing Collective! The Journal is open access, with 45 years of history freely available. New content appears online six months after the publication of the print issue.

P.S… It’s not Journals-specific, but did you see the exciting update about our new director of the Press?

Special Issues

• “Jazz Publics in Southeast Asia,” Jazz and Culture, Volume 7, Issue 2.
• “Regionalism’s Climates,” American Literary Realism, Volume 57, Issue 2.
• “Centenario Issue,” Italica, Volume 100, Issue 5. For the 100^th anniversary of the journal, editors share perspectives, an article on the history, and a collection of the most read articles.
• “The Family in Latter-Day Saint Culture and Thought,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Volume 57, Issue 4. *OPEN ACCESS*
• The three-part series “The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence” in American Philosophical Quarterly. Check out Vol. 61, Iss. 4, Vol. 62, Iss. 1, Vol. 62, Iss. 2, and an interview with the guest editor on our blog.
• “Multilingual Finland” Part 1, Journal of Finnish Studies, Volume 27, Number 2.
• “The Illinois Freedom Corridor,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Volume 118, Issue 1.
• “Forum on the Washington State Polonia,” Polish American Studies, Volume 82, Number 1.
• “Postsecular Italy,” Italica, Volume 101, Number 3.
• “‘Cultural and Natural Geographies’—Proposal for Site-Related Kinesthetic Didactics,” Journal of Aesthetic Education,Volume 59, Number 2. *OPEN ACCESS*
• “Radical Publications in Art + Design Education,” Visual Arts Research, Volume 51, Number 1. *OPEN ACCESS*

Looking for a recap on some special issues of Jazz and Culture? Check out our blog for the four most recently released special issues of Jazz and Culture covering “Jazz Publics in Southeast Asia,” “Jazz Across Screen Media: Representation, Rearrangement, and Reperformance,” “Nocoastjazz,” and “‘Jazz’ in the Present Tense.”

We also highlighted articles from special issues of Illinois Classical Studies as part of our National Classics Week celebration in April.

Blogs

It’s the 15th anniversary of Journal of Animal Ethics! In celebration of this milestone, the entire first issue, Volume 1, Issue 1, is free to access during 2025. Read our blog post celebrating Journal of Animal Ethics: the history of the journal, an introduction to the free issue, and recommendations of other articles to read.

We’ve welcomed new editors Thomas J. Balcerski for Connecticut History Review and Patrick Schmidt and Joseph Abramo for Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education.

In April, we shared the news of Dariusz Libionka winning the Ludwik Krzyzanowski Award for the best article published in The Polish Review in 2023  for “On Military Assistance to the Fighters of the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw – 80 Years Later.” 

We have a couple of journals with reading lists featuring a rotating selection of free to access articles:

• Illinois Classical Studies (plus, a call for general submissions)
• Recommended Reading: Mormon Studies Journals Edition (Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Journal of Mormon History,and Mormon Studies Review)
• Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education (plus, a call for papers for an upcoming special issue: “Joy and Pain” A Crossroads of Beauty, Knowing, and Being)

While you’re on the blog, find your next read on one of our other reading lists:

• African American Music Appreciation Month Reading List
• Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Reading List
• Labor History Month Reading List
• Founding of Mormonism Reading List
• Jazz Appreciation Month
• Women’s History Month
• Black History Month

Featured Top Articles

What is everyone reading? Here’s a look at some top articles from a few of our journals during Q1 and Q2 this year. Many of our journals have content on several different online platforms, so this feature section is only highlighting one top article from one platform (in the case of the below, these are top articles from the Scholarly Publishing Collective, which hosts most of our current content).

From Q1:

• American Journal of Psychology: “Maslow and the Motivation Hierarchy: Measuring Satisfaction of the Needs” by Robert J. Taormina and Jennifer H. Gao (Vol. 126, Iss. 2)
• Ethnomusicology: “Sound, Gentrification, and Ephethereal Justice” by Allie Martin (Vol. 68, No. 3)
• Journal of American Ethnic History: “Asian American Disability: A History and Its Archives” by Naoko Wake (Vol. 43, No. 3)
• Journal of Appalachian Studies: “A Historiographic Account of Stereotypes, Ideology, and Education in an Appalachian Region” by Katie Beth Brooks (Vol. 30, No. 2)
• Utah Historical Quarterly: “Fielding Opportunity: The History of the Ogden Assembly Club and the Legacy of African American Baseball Teams in Utah” by Chris L. Hansen (Vol. 92, No. 2)

From Q2:

• Diasporic Italy: “‘A Twilight of Memory’: On the Life and Writing of Pascal D’Angelo” by Dennis Barone (Vol. 3)
• History of Philosophy Quarterly: “Spinozian Civic Virtues and Epistemic Democracy” by Gonzalo Bustamante and Leandro De Brasi (Vol. 41, Iss. 2)
• Italian American Review: “Memorials and the Mine Disaster in Monongah, West Virginia: From Trauma to an Italian Global Memoryscape” by Joan L. Saverino (Vol. 12, Iss. 1)
• Journal of American Folklore: “Where Were/Are Asian American Folklorists?” by Juwen Zhang (Vol. 136, No. 540)
• The Polish Review: “Colonial Connections, Postcolonial Insecurities: Polish Officers in British West Africa during World War II” by Piotr Puchalski (Vol. 70, No. 2) *OPEN ACCESS*
• The Pluralist: “Philosophical Pragmatism and the Challenges of Information Technologies” by David L. Hildebrand (Vol. 18, No. 1)

Podcasts

In the latest episode of the University of Press podcast, The UPside, we sat down (virtually) with Guest Editors Dr. Stephen Townsend, Dr. Rebecca Olive, Dr. Murray G. Phillips, and Dr. Gary Osmond to discuss a new special issue of Journal of Sport History on “Concussion’s Past.” You can listen to the podcast or read a transcript of the conversation on our blog.

Looking to dive into some fascinating sports scholarship? Check out our Journal of Olympic Studies multimedia reading/listening list, featuring podcast episodes from our show, The UPside, and their related articles form the Journal. Each episode and article centers on both sides of three forums that were featured in different issues, including COVID-19, esports, and transgender athletes. You can listen to all the podcast episodes from this list in a playlist here.

What’s Next UP?

Brand new on the blog: check out new recommended reading for Journal of Film and Video. This blog post features free to read articles scheduled throughout the year, beginning with “Pitch Decks, Project Development, and Creative Labor for Contemporary Hollywood TV Series” by Kimberly A. Owczarski (Vol. 76, Iss. 3), free to access from July 1, 2025, to September 30, 2025.

Continuing on our celebration of the 15^th anniversary of Journal of Animal Ethics, we’re excited to be working on an upcoming podcast on the history, present, and future of the Journal.

We are also excited to announce that going into the 2025 volume year with 50 years of history, the Journal of Education Finance is expanding to become the Journal of Education Finance and Law through the Education Law Association. Edited by Jennifer Sughrue, the inaugural issue focuses on trending topics in education finance and law and is now available online on the Scholarly Publishing Collective where the full issue is free to access until October 1, 2025. Look for more information in an upcoming blog post announcement!