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. 

• Access to Brage
• Search or log in to NVA (find option to change to English at the bottom of the page)

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.

About copyright in connection with filing of own articles in NVA

The filing of one’s own articles means that you, as the author of a scientific article, can publish a copy of the article in NVA.

For articles published by a publishing company, the company's consent must be obtained before parallel publication in NVA. Most publishers usually require the authors of scientific articles to transfer the rights to the article to them. In other words, the author may lose their financial rights to their own work and have to request permission to distribute or reproduce the article etc.

As a result of the increasing focus on free access to institutions’ own research, most publishing companies now permit parallel publication in institutional archives, where the author personally files their article. However, the conditions vary between publishing companies. You should therefore check ’your’ publishing company’s conditions in the Sherpa/Romeo list.

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

Please find more information and a checklist here.

More information for Master's students.

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.

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

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

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.

Articles published in scientific journals must be self-archived in the information repository. This also applies if, as an author, you transfer rights to a publisher in connection with the publication of an article. Most publishers allow such archiving.. The publisher's version/final version of the article can be archived if the article is published openly (Open Access). 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.

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

1) 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/PDFis the final published version with the publisher's or journal's logo, layout and page numbers. In most cases this version is not allowed to be included in a thesis .

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

(NVA) is a joint national solution for research information and knowledge archives. 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 profile publications (scientific 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

Academic publications and publication points

All scientific publications and dissemination of research results at NMBU like scientific 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 etc.

Popular scientific publications, presentations, chronicles and more may be registered in NVA, however, these will not be credited with publishing points.

Registering academic publications 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 Norwegian Research Council requires that their project codes are registered in NVA (from 01.10.2017).
• 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.

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

What do faculty contacts do?

Check and approve academic publications before they are reported and given publishing points in the publication indicator system ("tellekantsystemet").

What does the University library do?

Checks embargo, rights and manuscript version on all scientific works uploaded to NVA before they are published on the internet.

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

Contacts at the faculties

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

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)