Application procedures
Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills adds new publication channels (journals, series and publishers) to the Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers, based on suggestions from scholars and others in the research community.
Treatment
Suggestions to new scientific publication channels (level 1) should be suggested to The Directorate through the application form.
We collect information about the suggestions from The International ISSN Register, websites, library systems and sometimes by direct contact with editors. Based on available information, The Directorate makes a recommendation for each submission. The Directorate presents the recommendations for the National Board of Scholarly Publishing. The latter has the final approval authority of publication channels that shall count in the Norwegian financial system. The National Board of Scholarly Publishing disapprove or approves the recommendations from the Directorate.
The nomination for level 2 is carried out by the National Board of Scholarly Publishing and the strategic academic units (scientific panels) in a separate process. The list is scrutinized yearly. See About the register and NPI for more information about level 2.
Who can submit
Suggestions for new publication channels (level 1) cannot come from commercial publishers/the publisher itself, but may only come from:
- Scholars affiliated with Norwegian, Swedish and Danish universities and other Norwegian, Swedish an Danish independent research organizations.
- Journal editors affiliated with Norwegian, Swedish and Danish universities and other Norwegian, Swedish and Danish independent research organizations.
- Librarians affiliated with Norwegian, Swedish and Danish universities and other Norwegian, Swedish and Danish independent research organizations.
- Members of scholarly association affiliated with Norwegian, Swedish and Danish universities and other Norwegian, Swedish and Danish independent research organizations.
Note that the submitter must be a person, not the journal/series/publisher or an organization.
If you do not fit one of the categories above, you may consider submitting to ERIH PLUS if the publication channel fits the scope and criteria of ERIH PLUS.
The Application Form
To suggest a publication channel, go to Submit publication channel. You must create a user/log in to be able to submit.
In the application form, you must register the following information:
- The publication channels title
- ISSN for journals and series
- ISBN-prefix for publishers
- Type of publication channel (journal/series or publisher)
- The website for the publication channel
- Scientific field for journals/series
You may write a comment for why it should be level 1.
In the application form, you must document that the criteria for level 1 are fulfilled, by uploading a PDF with descriptions or provide a URL with descriptions of the following:
- Scientific editorial board: names and affiliations of the members
- Scientific publishing program for publishers
- Peer review: the publication channels routines for peer review
- Authorship: the publication channels last two years of published issues with the authors names and affiliations
You as author of the application form are responsible for providing adequate information. If the information provided is insufficient, we will not approve the suggestion. You can follow the status of your suggestion from “My page”.
30. November – the final deadline for the current year
To be able to prepare the reporting of scientific publication, you must register new suggestions by the final deadline, 30. November. We will not consider publication channels suggested after this date in regards of publication points for the current publication year.
Final status for the register is settled in January.
For more information, see:
