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Open Access in Historical Demography

Open Access in Historical Demography . - Presentation at the Open Access Week - Brussels, Paleis der Academi ën 22 October 2012 Paul Puschmann & Koen Matthijs Family and Population Studies ( FaPOS ) KU Leuven, Belgium. Personal Background. Ph.D. Student in Historical Demography

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Open Access in Historical Demography

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  1. Open Access in Historical Demography - Presentation at the Open Access Week - Brussels, Paleis der Academiën 22 October 2012 Paul Puschmann & KoenMatthijs Family and Population Studies (FaPOS) KU Leuven, Belgium

  2. Personal Background • Ph.D. Student in Historical Demography • External Specialist of the European Historical Population Samples Network (EHPS) • Involved in the establishment of an Open Access Journal in Historical Demography • Open Access Ambassador at KU Leuven • Promoting Green Route of Open Access at the Faculty of Social Sciences

  3. New Opportunities • Making data, research results, extraction programs, scripts, documentation, etc. freely available for everybody • Increases visibility and citation chances. • Enlarges transparency of research and makes results better verifiable. • Decreases inequality in access to research results around the world. • Decreases dependency of scholars of commercial publishing houses.

  4. Getting Established is not Easy Some of the Challenges and Questions • Getting an overview of costs involved in the establishment and functioning of the journal. • Raising durable funding for the journal. • Who takes up the work publishing houses previously took care of, e.g. lay-out, language check, proof reading, etc.? • Finding people willing to publish in a newly established Journal of which the future is uncertain.

  5. Risks in the Transition to Open Access • Moving from restricted access to journal publications to restricted possibilities to publish. • reader-paid model is more and more replaced by an author-paid model • Longevity of journals might decrease, as funding might become less sustainable. • New peer-reviewed journals might be harder to establish, because of the costs involved. A trend away from peer-reviewed (and away from quality control) might be the outcome

  6. What is Necessary • More financial and practical support from universities and funding agencies, like FWO and ESF. • More guidance regarding the different pathways to establish and maintain Open Access journals in practice. • More institutional promotion, also financially, of Open Access. • More collaboration between initiators and editors of different Open Access Journals.

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