The GW Journal of Ethics in Publishing (GWJEP), a student-managed, diamond open access journal published by the Graduate Program in Publishing at the College of Professional Studies, George Washington University, has appointed Michelle Elizabeth Wilson as Editor-in-Chief. Wilson becomes the third Editor-in-Chief of the award-winning journal.
Wilson currently serves as Head of Open Scholarship Services at the University of Maryland. She previously worked as Digital Publishing Librarian at Columbia University from 2018 to 2022 and earlier held editorial roles at Oxford University Press focused on digital and reference publications in art history. She is Editor of the Digital Art History Directory, serves on the Editorial Board of the Art Libraries Society of North America, and has contributed to the Library Publishing Coalition and advisory boards for Punctum Books and Knowledge Commons. At the University of Maryland, she is also an affiliate faculty member at the School of Information, teaching courses on academic librarianship and scholarly communications.
GWJEP operates under a diamond open access model, providing free access and free publication. The journal offers graduate students hands-on experience managing a professional-level publication, provides a forum for capstone projects from students at George Washington University and other publishing programs, and engages publishing and library professionals as board members, peer reviewers, authors, and readers. The journal is sponsored by the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP).
The publication welcomes articles, case studies, book reviews, commentaries, and related work addressing ethical issues in publishing, including publishing equity, research integrity, diversity and inclusion, accessibility, peer review practices, open access, sustainability, publishing metrics, workflows, and artificial intelligence.
Wilson succeeds Lois Jones, Peer Review Director at the American Psychological Association, who served as Editor-in-Chief for four years. The inaugural Editor-in-Chief was Randy Townsend, who teaches the program’s capstone course on Ethics in Publishing.
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