Establishing an open access journal

BOAP is built on Open Journal Systems, an open source platform for scholarly publishing.

• Open Journal Systems (pkp.sfu.ca)
• Learning OJS 3.3: A Visual Guide to Open Journal Systems – user guide
• PKP School – instructional videos
• PKP support forum – questions

All journals published by BOAP must have an ISSN. The ISSN is an international system for identifying periodical publications.

How do you get an ISSN?

Before publication, the editorial team should send an application to ISSN Norway:

• Apply for an ISSN (nb.no)
• Read more about the ISSN (nb.no)

In book series, each monograph must also have an ISBN (International Standard Book Number). Read more about the ISBN (nb.no).

For publications in the journal to be eligible for NVI reporting, the journal must be registered as an academic publication channel. Journals are approved according to certain criteria, which in brief require that the journal must:

• be identifiable by an ISSN
• have an academic editorial board
• have peer review routines
• have a national or international range of authors, meaning that at most two-thirds of the authors may belong to the same institution

Read more about the criteria for approving publication channels (hkdir.no) and submit the proposal form for academic channels.

Norwegian websites are required to meet universal design standards, and this also applies to content published in digital journals. See the website of the Norwegian Authority for Universal Design of ICT (UUtilsynet) for more information:

• Universal design (uutilsynet.no)

BOAP has an agreement with Crossref on the use of DOIs for BOAP. DOI is a standard for identifying electronic objects such as journals, articles and books. A DOI provides a stable and permanent link to the object.

It is up to each editorial team whether they want to use this service. The University Library covers the cost of using DOIs, sets up Open Journal Systems (OJS) to handle DOIs, and transfers the necessary metadata to Crossref. As far as possible, the journals commit to ensuring that all references contain a DOI.