SEM Announces Ethnomusicology Translations
Friday, December 13, 2013
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Posted by: Stephen Stuempfle
The Society
for Ethnomusicology (SEM) is pleased to announce the creation of Ethnomusicology Translations, a
peer-reviewed, open-access online serial for the publication of ethnomusicological
literature translated into English. As a central online resource, Ethnomusicology Translations will increase
access to the global scope of recent music scholarship and advance
ethnomusicology as an international field of research and communication. SEM is
partnering with Indiana University Libraries' Scholarly Communications Department
to publish Ethnomusicology Translations
through its IUScholarWorks Journals platform.
Ethnomusicology Translations will
focus on
influential
articles
from journals and edited book
collections
published
during the past 20 years in any language other than English. With the use of
Open Journal Systems (OJS) software, SEM will edit, referee, and publish the
serial online. Each translated article, along with a headnote, will be
published as a serial issue as it becomes available. Articles/issues will be
identified by a serial issue number and year of publication, as well as by a
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) number. Metadata coding of articles will
facilitate searches by author, language, topic, or other keyword within the
serial itself and via Google and other search engines. Homepages for Ethnomusicology Translations will be
maintained at both the IUScholarWorks Journals website (
http://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/index/index
) and the SEM website. The project homepage on the
SEM website will include brief literature reviews for featured language areas,
as well as links to articles.
Ethnomusicology Translations will be
directed by an Editorial Committee, chaired by a General Editor and consisting
of Advisory Editors, Language Area Editors, and the SEM Executive Director, who
will serve as Project Manager and liaison with Indiana University Libraries. The
SEM Board will appoint the General Editor and Advisory Editors, while the
General Editor will appoint the Language Area Editors in consultation with the
Advisory Editors, appropriate SEM Sections/SIGs, and the SEM Board. The
Editorial Committee will develop guidelines for the nomination and selection of
articles for translation, the clearance of rights and permissions, the
recruitment of translators, the preparation and refereeing of translations, the
writing of headnotes, copyediting, and publication. SEM will support Ethnomusicology Translations on an
ongoing basis through monies raised in its Sound Future Campaign and invested
in its Endowment.
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