Information Session and Launch ‘How to publish your GREATLEAP COST Action research with Open Research Europe’

We warmly invite you to join us for the launch and information session of the new Open Research Europe Special Collection “Multidisciplinary approaches to historical health inequalities, 1800–2022”.

Registration link: Register here

What this Collection is about

Health inequalities have persisted across time, shaped by structural, socioeconomic, environmental, and demographic factors. The GREATLEAP network brings together historians, demographers, epidemiologists, data scientists, and public health experts to explore how cause-specific mortality data can shed light on the origins, dynamics, and transformations of these disparities from 1800 to 2022. The network is committed to creating comparable individual-level historical cause-of-death datasets, designing analytical tools, and generating evidence that bridges past findings with present health policy challenges.

This Special Collection welcomes contributions that engage with the broad theme of historical health inequalities, and is organized into three thematic subcollections:

1. Coding and Classifying Historical Causes-of-Death — methodological work around standardization, classification, and coding of historical mortality data.

2. Approaches and Tools for Individual-level Cause-specific Mortality Data — analytical methods, software, or computational tools tailored to individual-level cause-specific mortality records.

3. Comparisons between Space and Time using Individual-level Cause-of-Death Data — comparative research that spans regions and periods; to qualify, submissions must involve authors from at least two countries.

Accepted article types include research articles, case studies, open letters, essays, reviews, data notes, methodological articles, software tool presentations, and brief reports (depending on subcollection) — as long as they align with the thematic goals of the Collection.

Open Research Europe

Open Research Europe is an open access publishing platform for the publication of research stemming from European Commission funding across all subject areas. The platform makes it easy for European Commission beneficiaries to comply with the open access terms of their funding and offers researchers a publishing venue to share their results and insights rapidly and facilitate open, constructive research discussion. Open Research Europe operates under a continuous publication schedule. A key benefit of publishing in Open Research Europe is that publication fees are fully covered for all GREATLEAP members, meaning you can publish free of charge. In addition, all articles undergo open peer review, where reviewer reports and author responses are published alongside the article, ensuring transparency and constructive engagement. See their FAQ here. 

What will happen at the session

• Presentation of the Collection’s goals, scope, and structure
• Walkthrough of the submission process and author guidelines at Open Research Europe
• Q&A to address any questions from prospective contributors

This session is ideal for anyone working at the intersection of history, epidemiology, demography, data science, public health, or allied disciplines who is interested in contributing to or learning more about the long-term study of health inequality.