Criteria for new journals

Do you want to start a new journal on FRITT? Or do you wish to move an existing journal to the FRITT-platform?

FRITT is a publication service for researchers and groups at UiO who want to establish a new scholarly Open Access journal or to convert an existing journal to Open Access. The University Library manages the FRITT service, but the journals are responsible for the daily administration and editorial processes. Technical maintenance is managed by the UiO IT-department. 

There are some criteria for using the FRITT-service:

  • The journal must be Open Access:
    • Access should be free.
    • The journal should not make use of access barriers such as logins or IP address filtering.
  • 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.
  • Rights - as a minimum the journal accepts: 
    • Authors publishing in a FRITT journal retains 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/hers website or in a repository without having to request permission from the journal. The journal should be credited as publisher.
  • The journal should have an affiliation with the University of Oslo. Editors, journal managers or other members of the editorial team should either be employed by or a student at the University.
  • The journal must have a realistic publishing policy and should publish at least six articles or other types of peer reviewed material each year.
  • The journal must lisence the content published with a Creative Commons license.
  • DIFI's requirements for Universal Accessibility should be followed as far as possible. For example, image pdfs should not be used.
  • If these criteria are not adhered to, the University Library have the right to remove the journal from FRITT.

Is your journal compliant with the criteria? If so, please contact the FRITT team and we will help you get started using the service. 

What services does UB provide?

  • 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.