The 'Golden Road' to Open Access in the Humanities - University of Amsterdam

"What is the future of scholarly publishing like? More and more scientific institutions go about Open Access publishing, but it also provides additional benefits such major challenges. In what ways can we follow the Golden Road to Open Access? A workshop for PhD students, research staff of schools and other interested parties. With Prof. . Dr. Patricia Pisters (UvA), Jeroen Sondervan (AUP), Prof. Thomas Vaessens (UvA), Eelco Ferwerda (OAPEN)..; Annemarie Bos (NWO); Wilma Wezenbeek (TU Delft). NWO has put a new step in their Open Access policy. According to a news item from October 2014 NWO will now ask to publish all research funded by NWO fully Open Access (Golden Road). Over the past three years, NWO, the creation of open access journals stimulated with a start. Using partner institutions include NECSUS European Journal of Media Studiesand the Journal of English Literaturearise therefrom. Several publishers, nationally and internationally to Open Access publication opportunity. Also Amsterdam University Press, the publisher of NECSUS, has an active Open Access policy. Now that the initial subsidy has stopped is the persistence of such  journals  precarious. APCs (Article Processing Charges) are still not everywhere feasible alternative funding has proved difficult to find. The benefits of open access are evident. But the problems and even chaos surrounding this new form of publishing is nonetheless the same. [1]  The main problems seem to be that the APC model does not necessarily benefit the quality of publications (who pays Publishing) and that the costs also come disproportionately on the board of scientists and universities are (often in favor of large commercial publishers). In the Humanities and Social (HSS) Science comes to that the problem that within the research budgets little to no money available to publish in such manner. Alternatives are there? With NECSUS as a case study, this workshop will the much broader problem of scholarly publishing raise in the future. In what ways can we follow the Golden Road to Open Access? How to keep the costs under control and the quality and access to scientific publishing and scientific publications is guaranteed?"