Research and publishing

NVA will replace Cristin as the research information system for academic publications, and Brage as NMBU's digital research repository. The repository contains academic articles, doctoral theses, master's theses, and other materials produced by students and employees at NMBU. Material from NVA can be retrieved via search engines such as Google and NMBU Oria. 

• Search Brage
• Search or log in to NVA (find option to change to English at the bottom of the page)
• Connect ORCID to your profile

About copyright and the contents of the information repository

Publication in the information repository is regulated by the Norwegian Act relating to copyright in literary, scientific and artistic works, etc. (The Copyright Act), and entails no limitation on the author’s exclusive right to dispose of a literary, scientific or artistic work by producing permanent or temporary copies thereof and by making it available to the public. Publication in NVA therefore requires the author's consent.

Copyright is the author’s right to their work as well as the right to decide how the work is used. The author has both financial and moral rights. The financial rights entitle the author to make decisions over the work, while the moral rights include the right to be named as the author and protection against reproduction of the work in a manner or in a context prejudicial to the author.

As regards the content of the information repository, this means that the author retains copyright to the publication, but permits users to copy and quote from the work as well as to communicate it to others. It is a condition that the author(s) and the publisher are named. Commercial use of the work is not permitted except by written agreement with the author. In this context, commercial use is understood to mean cases in which a third party wishes to exploit the material commercially. The work may not be altered in any way.

These conditions are described in more detail at Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

All NMBU master's students must submit the electronic version (PDF) of their master’s theses in WISEflow. All approved master’s theses will be made available in the information repository (NVA) as soon as they have been released for publication.

About copyright and publishing of Master’s theses in NVA

The author has full copyright under the copyright-act.

The university has decided that master’s theses will be published in NVA. Once the thesis has been published in NVA, it is securely saved and will be available to yourself and others in future via a permanent internet address. This makes it easy for you to include links to your thesis in applications and references.

When deciding whether to publish your thesis in the repository, please consider the following:

• If you choose to not publish the thesis, the title, author and synopsis will still be published in the repository.
• If you choose to postpone publication (embargo), only the title and author will be published after the deadline for appeal has expired. The thesis and the synopsis are published when the embargo period has elapsed.  
• If you choose to both refuse publication, and subject the thesis to embargo, the synopsis will be published after the embargo period has elapsed. Meanwhile, the thesis will remain unpublished indefinitely. However, you can still request access to the thesis in the P360 digital archive, if it does not contain sensitive personal information.  
• Please note that master's theses are in principle public. If the thesis is not subject to restriction required by law or the embargo period has expired, access to master's theses that are in the university's ordinary archive (currently Public 360) will be granted even if the thesis has not been published in the NVA science archive.

Publication of previously approved theses

NVA is also open for registration and publication of previously approved theses. Contact the University Library for help with this.

Useful websites (information from the Department of Academic Affairs (Studieavdelingen))

• Degree thesis at NMBU
• Applications, agreements and templates for students
• Confidentiality agreement for thesis restriction required by law or postponing publication

See also information from the NMBU University library

• The Norwegian Research Information Repository (NVA) - information for masters students

The final dissertation file (with cover) that is sent for printing must also be uploaded to NVA before the doctoral defence. The candidate must also make sure that the faculty receives a copy of the file.

Procedures and information about doctoral theses are described under Completion.

About copyright and doctoral theses in NVA

Monographs - the author has full copyright under the Copyright Act and is free to grant permission for publication of the thesis in NVA.

Article-based – comprises a number of articles and a summary section. The author has full copyright to the latter and is free to permit it to be published in NVA. For the articles, the same limitations apply as for filing of own articles. Permission must be obtained from publishing companies (and co-authors, if relevant) before articles can be published in NVA.

It is our impression that publishing companies are generally more accommodating in the conditions they stipulate when an article is part of a thesis than in the case of isolated articles.

• Search or log in to NVA (find option to change to English at the bottom of the page)
• Guide to registering results in NVA

Self-archiving of articles (and other publications) means that you, as the author of a scientific work, publish a version of it in the information repository (NVA). Authors at Norwegian institutions must self-archive scientific articles in the Norwegian Research Information Repository (NVA).

The publisher's version/version-of-record (VoR) can be self-archived if the article is published open access with a CC-license. If the article has not been published openly, the last accepted version after peer review of the article must be archived. This version of the article is also known as post-print.

The document (PDF) must be uploaded in NVA at the same time as you register the article there.

• Guide to registering results in NVA
• Guide to registering projects in NVA
• Check the publishing company’s self-archiving conditions in the Open Policy Finder
• NMBU’s guidelines for open access (in Norwegian)
• NMBU’s rights retention strategy for open publishing (RRS)
• RCN's research policy and strategy: Open access to publications (The Research Council of Norway)

Retain the right to self-archiving when you sign the contract with the publisher

The contract is made with the publisher after the article is accepted for publication. When signing the contract, the author must ensure that he/she retains the right to self-archiving the article. Many publishers have already made provision for this and include it in their standard contract. If the publisher's standard contract does not give you the right to make your own archival copy, you can use the text below.

Procedure:
You can cross out the section of the text which does not apply and insert the following:

• Norwegian version:
  • I tillegg til de rettigheter forfatter beholder gjennom signert avtale med forlag, beholder forfatter også rettigheten til å:
  • Egenarkivere en akseptert versjon av verket i Nasjonalt vitenarkiv (NVA), hvor dokumentet umiddelbart vil gjøres tilgjengelig på nett i fulltekst.
• English version:
  • In addition to any rights retained by the author in signing an agreement with a publisher, the author retains:
  • The right to self-archive an accepted version of the work in the Norwegian Research Information Repository (NVA), through which the copy will be available electronically. The work is made available in the repository without embargo.

You may also use the SPARC (Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition) author addendum.

For questions about self-archiving, contact the University library.

Definitions

Pre-print is the version of a scholarly document before it has been sent to specialists in that particular field for evaluation. This version can be revised after comments from a specialist.

Post-print is the final version of a scholarly document, and includes revisions after any comments from the specialists, or without comments, if the original document has been accepted.

Publisher's version or Version-of-Record (VoR)  is the final published version with the publisher's or journal's logo, layout and page numbers.

Self-archiving: Depositing an article in full text or submitting a thesis in NVA. 

Norwegian Research Information Repository (NVA) is a joint national solution for research information and knowledge repositories. The service provides an overview of Norwegian research, makes publications openly available and facilitates the reuse of metadata. The service is a tool for researchers and research communities in Norway to register and to profile publications (academic and other), projects and competence profiles.

The deadline for registering all scientific works published in 2025 is 31 January 2026.

• Register results in NVA
• Register project in NVA
• Log in to NVA
• Connect ORCID to your NVA profile

Publications and publication points

All academic publications and dissemination of research results at NMBU e.g. articles, monographs and anthologies (books), book chapter, conference proceedings and conference papers must be registered in NVA. NVA also forms the basis for the reporting of publication points, which in turn determines part of the national budget.

Other publications, lectures e.g. popular scientific publications, presentations, chronicles and more may be registered in NVA, however, these will not be credited with publishing points.

Registering (self-archiving) academic publications in NVA

NMBU supports the government's goal that all Norwegian academic articles funded by public funds should be openly accessible. Employees and students who have published scientific work must therefore ensure that full-text versions of all articles are self-archived in NVA.

Employees and students that have published academic works must see to that:

• Publications for the previous year must be registered in NVA by January 31st.
• The Research Council of Norway (RCN) requires that their project codes are registered in NVA.
• Project codes for European Commission (EU) and other projects funders are registered.

NOTE: Approximately 60% of publications are automatically imported into NVA from the Scopus database. However, please check that all your publications for the current year are in NVA. Publications that are not automatically imported must be registered manually.

Self-archiving/uploading publications in NVA:

• How to register the result in NVA
• For academic publications that are not open access, the post-print must be self-archived. This is the latest approved version after peer review (without the publisher's layout and logo).
• For academic publications that are open access, it is the publisher's version/ version-of-record (VoR) that must be self-archived.

Registering projects in NVA

Employees at NMBU must register research projects that are funded by the Research Council of Norway, EU or others.

• Register project in NVA

Author addresses

• "Norges miljø- og biovitenskapelige universitet" or "Norwegian University of Life Sciences" and the name of the faculty at NMBU ("Faculty of …") is to be used as the author’s address when the author has completed work in the capacity of employee or student at NMBU.  Institute name ("Department of...") may be used where necessary.
• NMBU receives no point rewards for publications for which the researcher has not entered NMBU as the author’s address. Names of the section, department or centre are NOT a sufficient address.
• If the author of a given publication is entered with two addresses, both addresses MUST BE registered in the NVA post. Both addresses are displayed behind the name of the person in the list of contributors.

Guidelines for the use of authors' addresses at NMBU

Deadlines

• January 31: Registration of publications for the preceding year
• November 30: Suggest new publication channels at Level 1

Useful websites

Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers (Kanalregisteret)

Norwegian Research Information Repository (NVA)

What do faculty contacts do?

Superusers (curators in NVA) are researchers' first line of support. They are responsible for helping researchers with their registrations, managing content in NVA for their faculty, and carrying out NVI reporting on behalf of their faculty. NVI means academic publications are checked and approved before they are reported and given publishing points in the publication indicator system ("tellekantsystemet").

Contacts at the faculties:

• Anna Karina Schmidt (BIOVIT)
• Anna Mazzarella (BIOVIT)
• Heidi Rudi (KBM)
• Kaija Hovland (KBM)
• Josie Teurlings (LANDSAM)
• Ellen Opsahl Mæhle (REALTEK)
• Iren Øvre Abrahamsen (MINA)
• Hans Christoffer Tyldum (MINA)
• Erica Maremonti (MINA)
• Kirsti Pettersen (HH)
• Tove Merete Husby (VET)

What does the University library do?

The University Library manages the Norwegian Research Information Repository on behalf of NMBU and has the administrator and editor roles. The University Library checks embargo, rights and manuscript version on all scientific works uploaded to the NVA before they are published on the internet.

Please contact the NMBU University Library if you have any questions about:

• Registering new publications or projects
• Reporting publications (NVI reporting)
• Files, licenses and embargoes
• RRS strategy
• Student papers published in NVA

Student theses and WISEflow

Questions regarding the submission of student theses to WISEflow, in addition to the placing of an embargo period or delayed publication, and to restrictions required by law on to theses can be directed to The Department of Academic Affairs (Studieavdelingen).

See this page for more information: Degree thesis at NMBU

Publication of previous theses

Students who have left NMBU can contact the NMBU University Library for the publication of previously approved theses.

Access to student theses

Please note that master's theses are in principle public. If the thesis is not subject to restriction required by law or the embargo period has expired, access to master's theses that are in the university's ordinary archive (currently Public 360) will be granted even if the thesis has not been published in the NVA science archive.

Requests for access can be directed to NMBUs Dokumentsenter.

Useful resources

• User guides for researchers
• Webinar recordings (Norwegian only)