Publikationssammanhang

Publikationssammanhang is a Swedish term used in bibliographic metadata and research management to describe the contextual information surrounding a publication. It covers the circumstances in which a work was produced and disseminated, including its relation to research projects, funding, institutional affiliations, and the channels through which it is shared. The concept helps readers and evaluators understand the provenance, scope, and accessibility of a publication beyond its bibliographic identifiers.

Typical components of publikationssammanhang include: publication venue and date (journal, book, conference proceedings, or digital platform); edition, volume, issue, and series information; authorship and author affiliations; funding sources and project identifiers; editors, translators, and reviewing bodies; language; identifiers such as DOI, ISBN, or ISSN; licensing and access conditions (for example open access or embargo status); and the version of the work (preprint, accepted manuscript, publisher's version).

In practice, publikationssammanhang is used by librarians, researchers, and institutions to interpret the significance of a publication, to support research assessment and reporting, and to manage scholarly output in repositories.

It is often encoded in metadata schemas (for example Dublin Core, MODS) and linked to catalogues or institutional repositories such as LIBRIS or DiVA.