About the Journal
Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications
About
Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications (short: DHNB Publications) is a diamond open-access publication outlet for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences conferences, workshops, and other academic events mainly from, but not limited to, the Nordic and Baltic regions.
The series DHNB Publications is published at the University of Oslo Library, Norway, and edited by Annika Rockenberger (University of Oslo) and Eetu Mäkelä (University of Helsinki).
The Board of the Association for Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries serves as the Editorial Board and ensures regional and international anchoring.
Individual DHNB Publications also regularly have guest editors, as the respective conference organisers edit and publish each proceedings. The publication editors oversee the publication process.
DHNB Publications does not charge any fees for publishing articles. Accessing, reading, and downloading articles is free of charge as well.
Submission and Review Process
DHNB Publications publishes proceedings from conferences and workshops that employ a rigorous peer-review process. The requirements for this process are
1) the use of an external pool of peer reviewers,
2) multiple peer reviews per paper, and
3) at least a three-step process where submissions are filtered based on review results, and authors must further amend their work based on the peer reviewers' comments.
All papers must be formatted according to the DHNBPub template. You can use the DHNBPub template on Overleaf, the easy-to-use, collaborative, online LaTeX editor. Submissions are made as PDF files.
Language Requirements
All our publications are in English. We do not pose limitations to languages in your source materials, data, citations, or references.
History of DHNB and its Conference Proceedings
Ensuing from the DHN and DHNB conference proceedings published with HumanIT and CEUR workshop series, DHNB Publications were established in 2023 to provide a sustainable, openly accessible, well-indexed, and findable platform for full paper publications of presentations and posters from DHNB’s annual conferences and similar academic events from the region.
Early Years
In 2015, the Association for Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries DHN was founded in Oslo by representatives from all Nordic Countries: Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark. The first conference was held in 2016 in Oslo; no proceedings were published from the inaugural conference.
In 2017, the DHN held its second conference in Gothenburg, Sweden, and a selection of long paper presentations was published in the open-access journal HumanIT as a themed issue in 2018 “Nordic Digital Resources and Practices”. It contained five papers and a guest editorial by the conference organisers.
Conference Proceedings
In 2017, a selection of revised presentations was published in the open-access journal Human IT https://humanit.hb.se/issue/view/91.
From 2018 to 2020, DHN published three proceedings with CEUR workshop series, the free open-access proceedings for computer science workshops. The conference organisers edited the volumes containing peer-reviewed full-paper versions of presentations and posters.
DHN2018 in Helsinki http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2084/
DHN2019 in Copenhagen http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2364/
DHN2020 in Riga http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2612/ had to be postponed and moved online during the COVID-19 pandemic. The organisers and the DHN Board decided to publish pre- and post-conference proceedings http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2865/, allowing additional submissions of peer-reviewed full papers of presentations and posters.
In 2022, DHN officially changed its name to Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries, crediting the many contributions and strong representation from the Baltic countries.
DHNB2022 in Uppsala was the last conference to publish its proceedings with CEUR workshop series http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3232/.
The following workshops, organised and co-located with DHNB conferences, have additionally published their proceedings:
Twin Talks Workshop (colocated at DHN2019) https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2365/.
Twin Talks: Understanding and Facilitating Collaboration in Digital Humanities 2020 (colocated at DHN2020 and DH2020) https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2717/.
Digital Parliamentary Data in Action 2022 (colocated at DHNB2022), https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3133/.
Establishing DHNB Publications
The organisers of DHNB2023 and the DHNB Board addressed the need for a more sustainable publication outlet for the annual conferences and other academic events, like workshops, within the expanding field of Digital Humanities and Social Sciences in the Nordic and Baltic regions.
They decided to establish a diamond open access serial publication under the auspice of the DHNB Board, hosted and maintained at the University of Oslo Library and edited by the conference and workshop organisers together with an editorial board.
This step will secure future conferences’ proceedings and strengthen the community by providing a platform for publishing Digital Humanities research that is openly accessible and findable.
Terms of Use
DHNB Publications embraces Open Science and Open Humanities. Therefore, each proceeding and all individual papers are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License. You can read the complete license deed on the Creative Commons website]. In short:
You are free to:
Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
Under the following terms:
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
Publishing Your Digital Humanities Proceedings with DHNB Publications
DHNB Publications welcomes publication inquiries by organisers from any conference or workshop from the field of Digital Humanities and Social Sciences, also beyond the Nordic and Baltic regions. Contact the publication managers via email at journal-manager@dhnb.eu.
