The Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) has helped redesign the website of the Journal of Humanities in Rehabilitation (JHR), part of the ECDS academic journal network. JHR is a peer-reviewed, multimedia, open access journal published in collaboration with ECDS.
Dr. Bailey Betik, ECDS Digital Publications Specialist, said of the JHR redesign: “we created a custom theme and reformatted over 350 articles over a two-month span, some of which dated back to 2016. This allowed us to preserve past articles’ media assets, create clearer workflows for publication, and augment WCAG accessibility features.”
The Journal of Humanities in Rehabilitation was established by Dr. Sarah Blanton in 2014, becoming the first interdisciplinary journal to unite humanities research with rehabilitation sciences, which has also benefited from significant collaboration with disability scholars. Diverging from more traditional scientific academic journals, the JHR deploys a transdisciplinary approach to studying the rehabilitation sciences, whilst also providing a space for those living with disability – and their carepartners – to express their voices.
ECDS works collaboratively with the JHR, enabling specialists from the digital humanities world to integrate their skills with the expert subject knowledge of the JHR staff and content writers, whose expertise ranges from physical therapy (PT) to bioethics.
You can learn more about the work of the JHR at this link: https://www.jhrehab.org/about/