About the Journal

Founded in 1994, Elore is very likely Finland’s oldest open access journal. The journal is published by the Finnish Folklore Society / Suomen Kansantietouden Tutkijain Seura ry. and contains scholarly articles within the fields of folkloristics and related disciplines (e.g. anthropology, ethnology, life history and gender studies). Elore is a biannual journal that publishes peer reviewed articles, review articles, book reviews, and academic news. The publication languages are Finnish and Swedish, but occassionally, in rare cases, also articles in English are published.

Peer Review and Ethical Commitment

We use the peer review label of the The Federation of Finnish Learned Societies, (TSV). We are committed to complying with the conditions for using the label, the peer review guidelines of the Finnish Association for Scholarly Publishing and the principles of the Guidelines of the Finnish Advisory Board on Research Integrity. Elore requires its authors to follow good scientific practice, including reporting any use of artificial intelligence. Elore undertakes to treat all texts submitted to the journal confidentially and in accordance with the principles of the TSV and the Finnish National Board on Research Integrity TENK.

Publication Transparency, Licensing and Self-archiving

The journal follows Diamond OA publishing model: the journal does not charge authors and published texts are immediately available on the Journal.fi service for scientific journals. By submitting an article for publication on Elore, the author agrees, as of September 2024, that the work will be published under a CC BY 4.0 licence. Under the licence, others may copy, transmit, distribute and display the copyrighted work and any modified versions of the work based on it only if they attribute the licence, the original publication (link or reference) and the author as the original author. Any modifications made must be acknowledged.

Copyright of the texts remains with the authors, and self-archiving (Green OA) of the published version is allowed. This also applies to texts published before September 2024. The publication must include Elore's publication details.

The metadata for published articles is licensed under Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.

The self-archiving principles of Elore have been recorded at the SHERPA/RoMEO database.