Publish a new publication

FHS publishes reports, dissertations and books in two publication series. Here you will find guidance, regulations and templates to help you prepare a new publication.

Contact: publikationer@fhs.se

Publish publication step by step

Quality assurance
Make sure that the publication undergoes internal quality assurance in accordance with the procedures established by your department or centre.
Transfer your text to the appropriate template (see below)
Complete the publication form
Specify how you would like the book to be published and distributed, for example in print or only via DiVA, and whether it should be distributed locally or made available for sale.
» Publication form
Publication agreement
Once the form has been completed, ALB will prepare a publication agreement. The agreement must be signed by all authors in Signport. The publication will then be assigned an ISBN, a series number and a DOI.
ALB takes it from here
If required, we will typeset the manuscript, produce the cover, obtain a printing quote, create the purchase order and handle communication with the printer.
The publication is published!
Once all steps have been completed and we have received your approval, we will publish the book and order the number of printed copies you requested. The publication will be made available digitally and, where applicable, distributed to booksellers.

Templates

Templates are available for the report series and dissertation series:

More information

Rules for FHS internal publications

Rules for internal publishing (Ö 181/2023) are summarised briefly below.

All internal publications are published in one of two series: the dissertation series or the report series. Internal publications must not be published outside these series.

All internal publications must be made openly available in DiVA. For dissertations, this requirement applies at a minimum to the introductory summary.

All publications must follow the templates adopted by FHS and include bibliographic information such as ISBN, ISSN, DOI and copyright information. The templates are provided by ALB.

Internal quality assurance of the scholarly content must be carried out by the relevant academic discipline, centre or department.

The following applies to publications published internally by FHS:

The author retains copyright.
The author grants FHS a non-exclusive right to publish and distribute the work.
By publishing the work, the author agrees that it will be made openly available through DiVA.
The author is responsible for ensuring that all material may legally be published and does not infringe the copyright of others.

We recommend choosing a Creative Commons (CC) licence to clearly specify the terms under which the work may be reused. The specific licence can be stated in the publication form and in the publication template. If no licence is selected, the work will be made available under DiVA's terms of publication.

Printing publications

Publications must be printed by the contracted printing service, Publit. Publications can be distributed through the FHS bookshop as well as major online and physical bookshops.

The printer uses print-on-demand technology, meaning that books are printed when ordered. This reduces storage costs while enabling wider distribution.

Legal deposit copies

For printed books, the printer is responsible for distributing legal deposit copies in accordance with the Swedish Legal Deposit Act. In addition, eight copies of each published work must be provided to FHS.

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