Starting a new journal
What services does UB provide?
UB manages the FRITT service and offers support to its users. Here is an overview of what users can expect:
- Access to use the FRITT platform, a publishing tool which in addition to publishing features, also includes administrative tools for peer-review, editing etc.
- Help and advice when establishing a new journal or with transferring an existing journal to FRITT
- User and technical support
- Help to improve the journals' impact. Ascertaining that the journals are indexed and registered in relevant online databases, catalogues etc.
- UB covers expenses for persistent identifiers. Currently the DOI system is being used.
The journals are expected to handle daily administration and editorial processes themselves. Technical maintenance is managed by USIT.
Criteria for using the service
- The journal follows standard procedures for peer-review and will be compliant with academic requirements for level 1 journals (in Norwegian), according to the Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers.
- The journal must be Open Access:
- The journal should have no financial barriers to reading or publishing.
- The journal should not make use of access barriers such as logins or IP address filtering.
- The journal must license the content published with a Creative Commons license and this should be clearly stated on the journal website.
- Authors publishing in a FRITT journal retain the copyright for his/her article but gives the journal the right to be the first publisher.
- When an article is published, the author is free to share the published version of the article on his/her website or in a repository without having to request permission from the journal. The journal should be credited as publisher.
- The journal must be affiliated with the University of Oslo. For instance, by having an editor, journal manager, or the journal's administrative staff be employed by UiO. It is understood that there may be periods when the journal lacks affiliation with UiO, for example during a change of editors or similar circumstances. If there is a continued lack of UiO-affiliation, we encourage dialog about whether FRITT is the best place for the journal to be hosted.
- The journal must have a realistic publishing policy and publish at least six articles or other types of peer reviewed material each year.
- The journal should aspire to be indexed in Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). See the DOAJ-criteria for more information.
- DIFI's requirements for Universal Accessibility should be followed. See FRITT’s webpage on accessible content for more information.
- The journal can be funded through various means, such as support from institutes, associations, grants, support from NÅHST and similar arrangements.
- The journal should use DOI for its publications. The university library covers the DOI costs.
- The editor(s) is responsible for all content in the journal. Editorial responsibility also includes proofreading, editing, peer review, etc.
- If these criteria are not adhered to, the University Library can remove the journal from FRITT.
- If changes are made to the criteria, the University Library is obliged to inform the editors.
Is your journal compliant with the criteria? If so, please contact the FRITT team and we will help you get started using the service.
FRITT user support
This section contains resources for editors, journal managers and others who are responsible for a FRITT journal.
- Open Access policies
- Digital Object Identifier (DOI) guidelines
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Find Open Access journals
- Overview of the FRITT journals
- Find other Open Access journals in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)