Language Flexibility

The majority of journals on ARPHA are published exclusively in English. Still, some journals prefer to operate in other languages, depending on their authors and readers. The platform offers language flexibility and supports bilingual solutions at interface, metadata, and content levels. See below an example of a PDF article version in two languages.

Use case I: The journal Maandblad voor Accountancy en Bedrijfseconomie of the Amsterdam University Press wanted to keep the metadata and website interface exclusively in English so that it is generally understandable to the international audience, but at the same time, the main content and journal’s news announcements to be published exclusively in Dutch. The result was more than satisfactory for the editors, authors, and readers, especially after ARPHA uploaded the journal’s historical content (since 1924) and made it searchable and discoverable at the article level on MAB’s new website.

Use case II: Population and Economics, published by the Moscow State University, was established as an international journal publishing exclusively in English, while also offering its content in Russian to the vast community of Russian economists and population geographers. ARPHA created a special solution for formatting and publication of a Russian version of all articles, identical to the primary English text and formatted according to the journal’s design standards. The Russian version is published as PDF under the same DOI as the English version and under English Language metadata only; a special statement is included in the Russian version to be cited with its original English metadata to avoid splitting the citation counts between the two language communities.