Language Documentation & Conservation

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Language Documentation & Conservation is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal sponsored by the National Foreign Language Resource Center and published exclusively in electronic form by the University of Hawaiʻi Press. LD&C publishes papers on all topics related to language documentation and conservation, including, but not limited to, the goals of language documentation, data management, fieldwork methods, ethical issues, orthography design, reference grammar design, lexicography, methods of assessing ethnolinguistic vitality, biocultural diversity, archiving matters, language planning, areal survey reports, short field reports on endangered or underdocumented languages, reports on language maintenance, preservation, and revitalization efforts, plus reviews of software, hardware, books, and data collections.

Sponsor: National Foreign Language Resource Center

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

LD&C publishes fully open access content, which means that all articles are available on the internet to all users immediately upon publication. Non-commercial use and distribution in any medium is permitted, provided the author and the journal are properly credited. Authors retain copyright of their material. We publish one volume per year with no fees either for contributors or for readers. We upload articles four times per year in a publish-on-acceptance model.

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  • Pricing Guide
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  • Author Guidelines
  • LD&C publishes original papers on all topics related to language documentation and conservation, including, but not limited to, the goals of language documentation, data management, fieldwork methods, ethical issues, orthography design, reference grammar design, lexicography, methods of assessing ethnolinguistic vitality, biocultural diversity, archiving matters, language planning, areal survey reports, short field reports on endangered or underdocumented languages, reports on language maintenance, preservation, and revitalization efforts, plus software, hardware, and book reviews.

    Find Submission Guidelines here.

  • Editorial Board
  • Editor

    Racquel-María Sapién, University of Oklahoma, USA

    Technology Section & Collection Review Editor

    Gary Holton, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, USA

    Book Review Editor

    Bradley McDonnell, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, USA

    Copy Editor

    Rui Yamawaki, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, USA

    Associate Copy Editors

    Claudia Soria, Michael Rießler

    Web Production Editor

    Cedar Lay, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, USA

    Spanish Copy Editor

    Lilián Guerrero, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

    Editorial Board

    Linda Barwick, University of Sydney, Australia

    Lyle Campbell, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, USA

    Emiliana Cruz, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Unidad Regional Ciudad de México

    Nicholas Evans, Australian National University, Australia

    Bruna Franchetto, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

    Spike Gildea, University of Oregon, USA

    Tom Güldemann, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

    Birgit Hellwig, University of Cologne, Germany

    Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, University of Cologne, Germany

    Larry Kimura, University of Hawai‘i at Hilo, USA

    Keita Kurabe, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan

    Hsiu-chuan Liao, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

    Luisa Maffi, Terralingua, Canada

    Ulrike Mosel, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel

    Claire Moyse-Faurie, LACITO, CNRS, France

    Toshihide Nakayama, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan

    Kenneth L. Rehg, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, USA

    Keren D. Rice, University of Toronto, Canada

    Anthony Woodbury, University of Texas at Austin, USA

  • Indexes
  • Language Documentation & Conservation is indexed by:

    Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

    ERIC

    Open Science Press

    Scopus

    ProQuest–
    Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (Online), Core
    Linguistics Collection, 1/1/2015-
    Social Science Premium Collection, 1/1/2015-

    Clarivate Analytics–
    Emerging Sources Citation Index
    Web of Science

    Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.–
    Linguistics Abstracts (Online)

    LD&C is also listed as a green OA journal by Sherpa Romeo.