Submit a manuscript
Are you looking to publish your research? SKS is Finland’s largest publisher of open access scholarly books in the field of humanities. We publish peer-reviewed scholarly books in the fields of literature, cultural studies, history, and the Finnish language.
We are happy to receive interesting proposals and manuscripts. Read below on how to publish with us!
Our scholarly books are published both in print and as open access e-books that reach a wide audience online.
Frequently asked questions on publishing with us
If you want to offer a book proposal or a manuscript for our Studia Fennica series in English, download the book proposal form (docx), fill it in carefully and send it, along with any finished manuscript, to the editor-in-chief of the sub-series corresponding to the discipline of the book. See here for the Studia Fennica editors-in-chief.
Click here to read more about our peer review process.
Once a book has been accepted into the SKS publishing programme, the publications coordinator will send the authors a publishing agreement and instructions on how to proceed.
Each manuscript is unique. Details of the process and technical editing, as well as the publishing schedule are decided on in a meeting with the book’s assigned publishing editor.
We plan the marketing material of each book in cooperation with the author. We ask the authors to write a short blurb, which will be used in the books’ marketing. The best marketing methods for the book are always discussed in a meeting with the author(s).
Our scholarly volumes have their own, distinctive appearance created by a graphic designer. All our new titles are published in print through Books on Demand and in open access under the Creative Commons licence CC BY-NC-ND.
We guarantee long-term availability for our printed books. Books published in open access reach a wide audience around the globe.
Each spring, we publish a book catalogue presenting the books accepted into our publication programme for the current year as well as the books published at the end of the previous year. The catalogue is distributed to the media, bookstores and libraries.
All new books are announced on the SKS social media channels, and discipline-specific media are contacted. Because of high-quality metadata, our open access books are also highly visible in various international academic databases (e.g. OAPEN and DOAB).
Our publications are also visible at various events in their disciplines, such as seminars and conferences.
Effective dissemination and good visibility of published research is the shared goal of both the publisher and the author. The marketing of each book is planned in a meeting together with the author(s).
Our books can be bought from several online stores (including Amazon) and well-stocked bookstores. We have our own online bookstore. Our publishers’ store is bookstore Tiedekirja in Helsinki.
We publish in open access
The books in our scholarly series are published both in print and as open access e-books. Open access publishing gives researchers visibility, and readers free access to the latest research. We charge a fee for open access publishing from those researchers and research projects that have funding earmarked for it. Individual researchers are never charged, and funding does not affect our publication decisions.
Our open access e-books are published on the Ubiquity Partner Network publishing platform. The experts at our library produce relevant metadata for the books, which we export to OAPEN, DOAB and other international academic databases. Therefore, our publications find their readers efficiently, and especially our English-language books are read all over the world. The book’s reading and download statistics can be monitored through our publishing platform.
The SKS scholarly books can be downloaded and read in EPUB and PDF formats on our own publishing platform at oa.finlit.fi. The books are published under the Creative Commons licence CC BY-NC-ND, which allows for non-commercial use of the work on condition that the author is mentioned but prohibits any modification of the work. Read more about the terms of the licence on the Creative Commons website. Each book is also given a permanent DOI identifier suitable for scholarly referencing.
New types of material, such as audio or moving image, can also be attached to the e-book. For example, you can refer to online sources directly from the e-book by a link. We are happy to inform prospective authors about the possibilities of open access publishing.
