Posts by Charlotte Roh
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UC San Diego Student Journal Receives Gold EPIC Award in Publishing
Congratulations to the Challenger Research Journal at University of California San Diego, winner of the “Excellence in Student Journals – Research” Gold Award at the 2026 EPIC Awards Ceremony in Chula Vista, California, as part of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) 48th Annual Meeting. Editors-in-Chief Meghana Hariprasad, Johnny Tran, Leanne Liaw, and Publishing Coordinator Sofia Ruiz-Murphy were recognized for their contributions to the undergraduate journal, which is published by the University of California’s eScholarship Publishing program. Challenger Research Journal began as a paper series within the eScholarship Repository, offering an academic publishing training ground for students within the UC […]
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The Future of Digital Publishing
This article was first published in Refract: An Open Access Visual Studies Journal, in the special supplement “Imagining the Future of Digital Publishing.“ The authors respond to a series of questions posed by the journal editorial board about how digital publishing is transforming scholarly communication. How do you view the relationship between digital publishing and peer review? Are there other ways to create and assess legitimacy and scholarly rigor in digital publication spaces? Peer review has long been held as the gold standard for article evaluation. At its simplest, the goal of peer review is to ensure that a published article in […]
