For editors
Tidsskrift.dk is the Royal Danish Library’s portal for the publication of professional, scientific and cultural journals in digital full text. Read on to find out what is worth to know as a journal editor.
Content
1. What are the advantages of publishing a journal at tidsskrift.dk?
2. Can I publish my journal at tidsskrift.dk?
3. The software behind tidsskrift.dk and the editorial workflow
5. Indexing in various databases
1. What are the advantages of publishing a journal at tidsskrift.dk?
- Publication of a journal at tidsskrift.dk is free of charge for the editorial team. The journal and the Royal Danish Library will sign a contract, describing the service in regards of establishing, operation, and support of the journal.
- Tidsskrift.dk supports the whole editorial workflow from call-for-paper, to submission of manuscripts, peer review, and publication. In other words, tidsskrift.dk enable you to perform all the editorial work in one place.
- The Royal Danish Library will help establish the journal's site at tidsskrift.dk in collaboration with the editorial team. Editorial teams are offered a thorough introduction to the setup and use of the publication software behind tidsskrift.dk, Open Journal Systems (OJS). Read more in the section 3. The software behind tidsskrift.dk and the editorial workflow.
- The journals on tidsskrift.dk can be published as Open Access. Open Access means that readers can access the journal's content without login or payment. If you choose to oublish your journal Open Access, it can reach more people - both other researchers and scientists as well as the general public.
- The Royal Danish Library can help set up a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for the journal articles as well as offer guidance on how to get the journal indexed in Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). These measures enhance the visibility, impact, and credibility of the journal. Read more in section 5. Indexing in various databases.
2. Can I publish my journal at tidsskrift.dk?
To ensure high standards among the journals published at tidsskrift.dk, the individual journal must meet at number of specific requirements, which are described below. However, we include journals based on an overall assessment, so a given journal may not have to meet all the criteria in order to be included.
The journal must basically have a scientific objective. The editorial team must take a scientific approach to the editorial work, and the published articles must be peer-reviewed or quality assured in some way.
At least one of the journal editors must be affiliated to one (or more) of the following institutions based in Denmark, Greenland or the Faroe Islands:
- University
- A Research programme at a research institution
- An institution under the Ministry of Culture Denmark, e.g. a museum
- Scientific society or association with editorial affiliation to a Danish University
- University college
Below, further criteria will be outlined.
Student journals
Student journals that publish edited versions of students’ assignments or independent articles can be published at tidsskrift.dk.
These journals are seen as an education in academic practice, as they give students an insight into and training in writing, evaluating and publishing articles. However, in order to ensure sufficiently high standards, the journals must be linked to one the above mentioned institutions, and they must have an advisory board.
Cultural journals
Journals associated with a state-recognised museum or other institution under the Ministry of Culture Denmark, often have a broader target audience, and therefore they may resemble popular science publications. However, the content of these journals must have a scientific basis.
Open Access or delayed access
We encourage all editors at tidsskrift.dk to publish their journals Open Access, which means readers have access to the content without delay, login, or payment.
However, we do accept subscription journals, but in this case, all published content must be freely available no longer than six months after publication for journals from health and natural science, and no longer than 12 months after publication for journals from social sciences and humanities.
ISSN
Journals must have a Danish or Nordic-registered ISSN when applying for inclusion. If the journal does not have this, it must without a doubt be regarded as a Danish publication.
New journals can only apply for an ISSN after the first issue has been published, and therefore they are not required to submit a Danish/Nordic ISSN at the time of inclusion.
Danish ISSNs are provided by the Royal Danish Library, and you can Danske ISSN numre tildeles af Det Kgl. Bibliotek, og du kan visit this site to apply for one.
Responsibilities of the editorial team
The individual editorial team is responsible for ensuring that copyright is not infringed, and that it does not share sensitive personal information.
The editors are responsible for updating the information on their own site at tidsskrift.dk. The individual editorial teams may cooperate with external companies about typesetting, layout, website design etc. However, major changes to the website design may only take place after the editorial team has consulted the team behind tidsskrift.dk.
Pre-existing journals and earlier versions
If a journal which has been included at tidsskrift.dk has previously been published in a different version, for example under a different name, these versions can also be included at tidsskrift.dk.
Going forward, the new journal issues must be published at tidsskrift.dk. If the journal decides to maintain its own website beside the site at tidsskrift.dk, it must link from this website to the articles’ so-called landing pages at tidsskrift.dk. An article's landing page is the page, where all information about the specific article can be found together with a link to the article pdf file.
Termination
If a journal in the future decides to move their publication to another server, i.e. future journal issue will no longer be published at tidsskrift.dk, all previously published articles must remain available at tidsskrift.dk.
Changing criteria
Tidsskrift.dk has existed since 2007, and the publication criteria have been revised at regular intervals. However, new criteria only apply to those journals which have subsequently applied for publication.
Each editor can be confident that the terms to which they are agreeing will not be changed at a later date, since this could prevent them from publishing on tidsskrift.dk going forward.
It will therefore be possible to find a few journals at tidsskrift.dk which do not meet the current requirements in relation to the embargo period.
Interested?
Send an e-mail to tidsskrift.dk@kb.dk if you are interested in publishing your journal at tidsskrift.dk.
3. The software behind tidsskrift.dk and the editorial workflow
Tidsskrift.dk is based in the software Open Journal Systems (OJS). This software supports the editorial work, as the publication of a journal issue can be done in one workflow from submission of the manuscripts, to peer review, copyediting, and publishing. Layout of the manuscripts must be done outside the software and are required to live up to web accessibility requirements.
You also have the opportunity to only use tidsskrift.dk as a platform to publish your journal, and instead keep the editorial work seperate. e.g via e-mail. The finished journal issues with articles and metadata can then be uploaded for publication on tidsskrift.dk through the software.
When an article is published, the software allow search engines such as Google Scholar to harvest and share information about the article. The software can handle persistent identifiers such as DOI and ORCID. Data can also be exported to reference management tools.
OJS is developed by Public Knowledge Project (PKP). PKP also develops software for publication of e-books and preprints as well as software to harvest metadata online. At the moment, around 25,000 journals and yearbooks are published annually. The software is open source, and the development is coordinated by PKP in a close dialog between PKP and the users in a well-developed community.
We give every new journal at tidsskrift.dk a course, where we help you get started using the software. To get a better understanding of the editorial workflow in the software, we recommend all new editors to read PKP's really good explanation of this thoroughly.
Tidsskrift.dk runs their own journal, OJS på dansk (OJS in Danish), where we continuously publish user guides and inform about new tools and setup options and more.
4. Open Science
Open Access to scientific publications is a significant part of Open Science, and the Royal Danish Library offers tidsskrift.dk as a publication platform for journals wishing to publish Open Access.
Besides supporting the journals in the use of the platform, the Royal Danish Library offers support in Open Access publication practice, including choice of Creative Commons licenses, and indexing in Sherpa Romeo and DOAJ and more - read more in the following section.
5. Indexing in various databases
To increase the visibility of the journals at tidsskrift.dk, we recommend being indexed in various databases. When the journal's articles are harvested to a database, you will help readers in the whole world discover them. The number of people your journal will reach, will increase with the number of databases, the journal is indexed in.
Journals at tidsskrift.dk are indexed in Discovery (Primo), which is the Royal Danish Library's library search engine, as well as WorldCat, which is the world's largest database of library resources.
When an article is harvested, we always recommend this happens to the article's landing page at tidsskrift.dk (the page with information about the article together with a link to the article pdf file) or via a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), instead of directly to the article pdf file.
We offer the journals a DOI through Crossref to every single article in the journal. To get DOI's, the journal and the articles must meet some requirements, which we will send you, if you write to us requesting DOI's. When the articles have received a DOI, they will be indexed in Crossref's database.
We also offer, upon agreement with the specific journal, support to become indexed in other databases. Every database have specific requirements that the journal must fullfill to become indexed in it.
DOAJ is a database of Open Access journals in all languages. You can find more information about DOAJ as well as the criteria to get indexed on this site.
Sherpa Romeo is a database of journals' Open Access (OA) policies and be registering your journal here, you help create transparency about your journal's OA policy. Read about the criteria to be indexed here.
Below, you can see a list of different databases' requirements that a journal needs to meet to become indexed in it:
We recommend journals at tidsskrift.dk to follow COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics)’s guidelines for the editorial practice. COPE works for a cultural change in the publication industry through education and support to have ethical practices become a natural part of the editorial practice.