A number of journals require or invite their authors to write an accessible summary of their publication. The procedure for each journal varies. Please, follow the instructions your journal has sent you.

Please, write your summary on an OASIS template. We accept summaries on our A4 template or US Letter template.

To help you write your summary:

1. Before you start, please read our guidelines.
2. To help authors write their accessible summary, we have prepared a powerpoint presentation with an annotated example summary.
3. These two summaries have been written by the OASIS team as examples:

The usefulness of giving grammar rules for accuracy in a free writing task

Who knows more words: bilingual or monolingual children?

To submit your summary follow the instructions your journal has sent you. If they have instructed you to send your summary directly to us, please send it to oasis[at]oasis-database[dot]org.

If your publication appeared in a journal that is not a collaborating journal you can still submit an accessible summary. OASIS accepts summaries from other journals provided that

1. They are broadly relevant to language learning, language teaching, language use, and bi-/multilingualism

2. They appear in a journal listed on the Social Science Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, or Science Citation Index Expanded (SSCI, A&HCI, or SCIE, not Emerging Sources)

3. They are written on our A4 template or US Letter template and follow our guidelines.

To help you write your accessible summary, we have prepared a powerpoint presentation with an annotated example summary. We also have two summaries that have been written by the OASIS team as examples:

The usefulness of giving grammar rules for accuracy in a free writing task

Who knows more words: bilingual or monolingual children?

You can submit your summary to us at oasis[at]oasis-database[dot]org.

OASIS accepts summaries written by people who are not the original authors. However, the process has some extra steps.

1. Picking an article to write a summary of:

First check that a summary is not already not already available on the website

Avoid recent (after 2018) papers from The Modern Language Journal, Language Learning, TESOL Quarterly, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, and Language Teaching Research. These journals are asking all their authors to write summaries, even if it sometimes takes a little while to appear online.

Check that the article appeared in a journal listed on the Social Science Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, or Science Citation Index Expanded (SSCI, A&HCI, or SCIE, not Emerging Sources)

If you are writing an accessible summary as course work, then also follow your course instructor's guidance on choosing and article.

2. Writing your summary

Before you start, please read our guidelines.

To help students write their accessible summary, we have prepared a powerpoint presentation with an annotated example summary.

These two summaries have been written by the OASIS team as examples:

The usefulness of giving grammar rules for accuracy in a free writing task

Who knows more words: bilingual or monolingual children?

3. Contacting the original authors

It is our policy to contact the authors of the original publication and give them the opportunity to approve and / or edit the summary. We provide an email template and two follow up templates (follow up 1 and follow up 2) you can use. Please, cc your course instructor and the OASIS database in the email. If after two follow ups you have not received a response, we will proceed to upload the summary.

4. Submitting to OASIS

Finally, send your approved summary to us at oasis[at]oasis-database[dot]org.

A number of course instructors have used writing accessible summaries of research articles as course work for post-grad courses in language learning, language teaching, and multilingualism. Student summaries can be published on OASIS provided that

1. The summarise article is relevant to language learning, language teaching, and bi-/multilingualism

2. The original article appeared in a journal listed on the Social Science Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, or Science Citation Index Expanded (SSCI, A&HCI, or SCIE, not Emerging Sources)

3. The summary is written on our A4 template or US Letter template and follows our guidelines.

4. The original authors have been contacted for their approval and / or edits.

Students can find information on picking an article and writing a summary in the information tab above.

If you are considering using OASIS for course work, please let us know at oasis[at]oasis-database[dot]org

OASIS strives to be a multilingual resource. We accept translations of summaries already held on the database. At present we can only accept translations, as it is not possible for us to do quality control on new summaries in languages for which we don't have in-house expertise.

If you are translating your own summary

1. Please, look in the list below if a template is already available in your language. If yes, please use it to write your translation on. If no, please translate your own headings. We will add them to the list for other people to use.
2. We recommend you ask someone to proofread your translation.
3. Send the translation to oasis [at] oasis-database [dot] org along with the link to the original summary. We will upload it and link the various versions of the same summary.

If you are translating someone else’s summary

1. Please, look in the list below if a template is already available in your language. If yes, please use it to write your translation on. If no, please translate your own headers. We will add them to the list for other people to use.
2. Have your translation checked. The checker needs to be someone who can assess the language, the faithful translation, and the original publication if necessary. They preferably have a PhD or relevant research experience. Please, send them your translation along with the original summary and the original paper.
3. Send the final version of the translation to oasis [at] oasis-database [dot] org along with the link to the original summary. We will upload it and link the various versions of the same summary. Please, also send us the name of the translator and checker, which we will add on the website.

We follow APA guidelines for citing translations. Example:

Brekelmans, G. (2022). 外国語の音を聞き分けを学ぶとき、さまざまな人の声を聞くことは有効か？(H. Saito, Trans.) 

Templates and headings

Arabic template

Arabic template (headings-only)

Catalan template (headings-only)

Chinese template

Chinese template (headings-only)

Dutch template (headings-only)

French template

French template (headings-only)

German template

German template (headings-only)

Hebrew template

Italian template (headings-only)

Japanese template (headings-only)

Korean template (headings-only)

Spanish template (headings-only)

Turkish template (headings-only)

Vietnamese template (headings-only)

Coming soon!

OASIS currently has 17 collaborating journals (see the full list), four of which require all their authors to write an OASIS summary of their accepted article. Other journals encourage their authors to do so as well.

OASIS invites other peer-reviewed journals on the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI), Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI), or the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) to join us in making research findings in language studies more accessible. Our current selection of journals is skewed towards applied linguistics, but OASIS’ intended scope is wide and includes the field of language studies broadly interpreted, including topics such as language acquisition, language use, language policy, neuroscience, and multilingualism.

For more information on the process and how to present the initiative to an editorial board see the materials for editors.

If you would like your journal to join OASIS or if you have any queries, then please contact us at oasis[at]oasis-database[dot]org.