Historical Life Course Studies

Accomplishments, current state of affairs, aims, targets and challenges

Presentation prepared for the steering committee meeting of the European Historical Population Sample Network (EHPS-Net),

Amsterdam, October 18th 2013

Koen Matthijs & Paul Puschmann

Composition of the editorial board and the working groupEditorial Board Working group Koen Matthijs, Editor Koen Matthijs, chairPaul Puschmann, Associate editor Marko LambergAnja Heylen, Managing editor Michel OrisGeorge Alter Lionel KesztenbaumJoshua Goldstein Paul Puschmann*

Lionel Kesztenbaum Mikolaj SzoltysekMarko LambergKees Mandemakers Michel OrisMikolaj Szoltysek

Recent changes: Mikolaj Szoltysek joined both the editorial board and the working group

Joshua Goldstein left the working group, but stays as a member of the editorial board

*Proposal: Paul Puschmann officially joins the working group

Anja Heylen has been appointed as managing editor

Accomplishments since Budapest Meeting, September 2012 (I)

• Decision on the name of the journal: Historical Life Course Studies

• Website of Historical Life Course Studies: http://www.ehps-net.eu/journal

• Online administration system of the journal

• Installment of the scientific advisory board

• Advertisement for the journal

Accomplishments since Budapest Meeting, September 2012 (II)

• Formulation of the mission statement

• Creation of editorial statute

• Work flow

• Guidelines for authors

• Development of online submission procedure

Compostion of the Scientific Advisory Board• Tommy Bengtsson, Lund University (Sweden)

• Ioan Bolovan, Babeş-Bolyai University (Romania)

• Alexander Buczynski, Croatian Insitute of History (Croatia)

• Erik Buyst, KU Leuven (Belgium)

• Nanna Floor Clausen, Danish Data Archives (Denmark)

• Renzo Derosas, Ca’Foscari University Venice (Italy)

• Isabelle Devos, Ghent University (Belgium)

• Martin Dribe, Lund University (Sweden)

• Sören Edvinsson, Umeå University (Sweden)

• Theo Engelen, Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands)

• Per-Olof Grönberg, Umeå University (Sweden)

• Siegfried Gruber, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Germany)

• Myron Gutmann, University of Michigan (USA)

• Antti Häkkinen, University of Helsinki (Finland)

• Angelique Janssens, Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands)

• Jan Kok, Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands)/KU Leuven (Belgium)

• Satomi Kurosu, Reitaku University (Japan)

• Susan Hautaniemi Leonard, University of Michigan (USA)

• Marco van Leeuwen, Utrecht University, IISH (The Netherlands)

• Leo Lucassen, Leiden University (The Netherlands)

• Kate Lynch, Carnegie Mellon University (USA)

• Ineke Maas, Utrecht University/VU University Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

• Geert Molenberghs, UHasselt/KU Leuven (Belgium)

• Richard Paping, University of Groningen (The Netherlands)

• Steven Ruggles, University of Minnesota (USA)

• Reto Schumacher, Statistique Vaud/University of Fribourg (Switzerland)

• Maria Stanfors, Lund University (Sweden)

• Peter Teibenbacher, Karl-Franzens-University Graz (Austria)

• Gunnar Thorvaldsen, University of Tromsø (Norway)

• Jan Van Bavel, KU Leuven, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)

• Bart Van de Putte, University of Ghent (Belgium)

• Lotta Vikström, Umeå University (Sweden)

Mission Statement• No-Fee Open Access journal of EHPS-Net• Aim: Publishing studies based on data from large historical

databases, as well as methodology including programming, database management and computer sciences in that specific field of research

• Two types of articles: o Research articleso Methodological contributions

• Peer-reviewed, internally and externally

Workflow (short version)

layout and language

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external review

internal review

Pre-selection two external reviewers managing editor

Current State of Affairs• Some submissions have been received

• Ideas on a special issues for 2014 o By Gunnar Thorvaldsen & Ólöf Garðarsdóttir

• First articles will appear online soon

• More publicity necessary: booths and meetings on conferences

Call for papers!

We are urgently in want of submissions.

We ask all EHPS-members to submit papers to Historical Life Course Studies and to encourage colleagues to do the same.