Publicera is the national digital platform for Swedish scholarly open access journals. Everything published on Publicera is available for everyone to read, free of charge.

Publicera offers infrastructural support to help Swedish scholarly journals transition to an open access publishing system. It provides a common platform for the journals, aiming to enhance their visibility and accessibility.

How Publicera works

Each journal on Publicera has its own website.

Publicera is built on Open Journal Systems (OJS) External link, opens in new window., a standardised, open-source system that supports editorial teams throughout the entire publishing process – from manuscript submission and peer review to the publication of articles and metadata. OJS is used by more than 50,000 journals worldwide.

To help journals make the most of the platform, the National Library of Sweden (Kungliga biblioteket, KB) offers several complementary services.

Read more about the services included at publicera.kb.se. External link, opens in new window.

There is no cost for journals to be hosted on Publicera.

Requirements for joining

To join Publicera, journals must meet a set of requirements, including:

• Publishing content with immediate open access, under a Creative Commons license.
• Publishing at least 15 peer-reviewed articles over a three-year period.
• Assigning DOI numbers to published content.

These requirements help ensure that journals on the platform meet recognised scholarly publishing standards and comply with guidelines from funders, indexes and databases.

Read about all the requirements at publicera.kb.se External link, opens in new window..

The journals

The number of journals on Publicera continues to grow. They cover a wide range of research fields, including archaeology, literature, medicine and law. In addition to peer-reviewed articles, the journals publish other types of content, such as essays, reviews, and opinion pieces.