Abstract

The move toward full and immediate open access has become irreversible. However, our academic publishing practices are not keeping pace with the rapid advances in how science is conducted, openly disseminated and used. At the same time, barriers to proceeding with publication of research results are sometimes high, partly because of the clogging of access to some journals, accompanied by the lengthy duration of review procedures and the long wait until publication.
These developments force all of us, and especially university libraries that purchase publication services on behalf of their researchers, to rethink how to support the dissemination of research in a responsible, equitable and sustainable manner.

The faculty of law and criminology, supported by the open science team at Ghent University has developed an international open access journal that efficiently and fairly disseminates high-quality research. During our presentation we will share our experiences as journal managers in developing the journal, what sort of support structure is needed to manage the journal and how exactly we support researchers to adopt good open science and publication practices.