Publication resources
There are many resources that support open scholarly publication. This page highlights some key resources for Swedish researchers.
Publicera
The national platform for Swedish scholarly open access journals
Publicera is Sweden’s national digital platform for open access scholarly journals, administered by the National Library of Sweden (KB). The work on the platform is based on a government mandate assigning KB responsibility for its management and development, and since August 2022, this mandate has been included in KB’s official instructions.
The platform provides a common interface for the entire publishing process – from manuscript submission and peer review to open publication of full texts and metadata – including supplementary services that support journals in meeting the requirements of research funders and indexing databases.
Kriterium
A national platform for peer review and publication of scholarly books
Kriterium is a national platform for the peer review and publication of scholarly books in the humanities and social sciences. Through a coordinated review process, it ensures academic quality and open access to research results. Kriterium is a collaboration between Swedish universities, publishers, and the National Library of Sweden, supported by the Swedish Research Council and Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. The platform provides a model for open, peer-reviewed publishing that strengthens the role of the scholarly book within the open science system and contributes to the development of sustainable infrastructure for open science in Sweden.
Open Research Europe (ORE)
Publication platform for researchers with EU grants
Open Research Europe (ORE) is an open publishing platform for researchers with project funding from the European Commission (for example, through Horizon Europe). The platform enables researchers to meet open access publishing requirements without paying author fees. ORE allows for rapid publication through early posting (preprints), followed by an open peer review process that promotes transparency and supports reproducibility. The platform accepts different article types, encourages the publication of both positive and negative results, and adheres to open research data requirements and the FAIR principles. As an integral part of the process, each article is deposited in Zenodo, ensuring long-term preservation, traceability, and reusability.