Editorial

It is now two years since all ReCALL papers became entirely open access (OA).For ReCALL, going OA after nearly four decades marks an important step towards adapting to the evolving landscape of scholarly communication.ReCALL authors do not pay APCs (article processing charges), with publishing fees covered either by transformative agreements across countries and authors' institutions or by a waiver agreement.OA plays a crucial role in democratising scientific knowledge by making research freely available to everyone, regardless of financial barriers.Freely accessible research also encourages interdisciplinary collaboration and supports transparency and open science practices.In an era that is marked by the opacity of large language models (LLMs), OA enables researchers, students and the general public to engage with rigorous findings in technology and language learning and teaching, strengthening public understanding and education.In 2025, ReCALL published 24 research papers across three issues, with eight of those papers forming the special issue Migrants' and refugees' digital literacies in life and language learning.All 24 research articles are free to read and download, which is exciting news in a context where OA is expected to transform science into a shared global resource that drives innovation and, perhaps more importantly, equity.The 2024 impact factor for ReCALL increased again, this time to 5.7.This is calculated from citations in 2024 to articles published in ReCALL in 2022 and 2023, which received on average about 5.7 citations that year.This increase has been possible thanks to the authors who decided to share their excellent research in our journal and the work of our Associate Editors and reviewers.ReCALL now ranks 4th, out of 303, and 15th, out of 756, in Linguistics and Education & Educational Research, respectively.While these rankings are encouraging and are a testimony to the wide reach of the research published in the journal, we should not forget that our core values should remain the same, irrespective of our ranking.ReCALL has embodied for almost four decades, and we hope it will continue to embody, the values of innovation, inclusivity, and scholarly rigour by promoting technology-enhanced language learning through empirical and theoretical research in computer-assisted language learning (CALL) and related disciplines.Cambridge University Press (CUP) funds a prize for the "best paper" published in ReCALL in the three most recent issues (36.3, 37.1, and 37.2) leading up to the Editorial Board meeting at the EUROCALL conference, held this year in Milan.This year's prize was awarded to Müge Satar,