Ennen ja nyt: Historian tietosanomat (translated as Before and Now: History journal) was founded in 2001 as a non-profit history journal that publishes papers of high scholarly merit in three categories: research papers, reflections and essays, and reviews. The official languages of the publication are Finnish and English, but other languages are taken into consideration as well. The publication follows new and emerging research themes in the field of history and neighboring fields.

The publication is fully open access, meaning that both publishing and reading of articles is completely free - there are no article processing charges or submission charges.  Re-publishing of articles is allowed. In Publication forum, the Finnish publication ranking system, Ennen ja nyt is ranked in category 1 which is considered as the basic level of refereed scientific journals. Most of the journals fall into this category. More info here: http://www.julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/evaluations

The fully open access Ennen ja nyt publications are under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). The journal follows the peer review standards set by the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies (TSV), and it is indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). 

Ennen ja nyt is supported by four societies in the field of history and its study: Agricola -Suomen humanistiverkkoHistoriallinen Yhdistys rySuomen Historiallinen Seura ry and Turun Historiallinen Yhdistys ry