• Publish in open journals to make your publications accessible to anyone who might be interested in them.
• You can publish openly either by publishing research results in open journals or by uploading and making research works available in open repositories.
• In the Norwegian Register (Kanalregisteret), you can check whether a journal or publisher allows open publishing. Open publishing channels are marked as indexed in DOAJ and Sherpa Romeo.

• The applicant must be the corresponding author and affiliated with the University of South-Eastern Norway. The author must credit USN in the article (Read more under Author affiliation above).
• An overview of publishing agreements is available in the Norwegian register (Kanalregisteret).
• An overview of the agreements available at USN can be found on our website.

The rights policy, also known as the Rights Retention Strategy (RRS) at USN, ensures that you can self-archive articles from non-open journals in the research repository.

• The University of South-Eastern Norway (in Norwegian or English) must be stated as the author affiliation. It is not sufficient to only include the name of the department or research center.
• The institution's name must be listed as the author affiliation in the publication itself for the institutional affiliation to be registered in the corresponding entry in NVA.
• See the Guidelines for Crediting Scientific Publications to Institutions (recommended by UHR, 2011 - translated by OsloMet).
  • An institution should be listed as an affiliation in a publication if it has made a necessary and significant contribution to or provided the basis for an author's involvement in the published work.
  • The same author should also list other institutions' affiliations if these, in each case, also meet the requirements in point 1.
  • An employment relationship or a supervisory agreement may be considered grounds for crediting an institution if the requirement in point 1 is met.

• The corresponding author is the one responsible for submitting and following up on the article throughout the publication process.
• The corresponding author can apply for publication support through USN's publication fund.
  • Key criteria for receiving financial support:
    • The corresponding author must be affiliated with the University of South-Eastern Norway through employment or as a student.
    • The author must credit USN in the article.
    • Applications for support should be submitted using the designated application form to publiseringsfond@usn.no.

• ORCID is a unique researcher ID. It is used when submitting publications to easily identify your research outputs.
• ORCID is international, and you will use it throughout your research career.
• Read more about ORCID and how to create one under Make your research visible.

Log in to min.usn and click on "My Profile" to update your employee profile to automatically retrieve your research outputs from NVA.

• You can link your research output to a research group in NVA. You do this by searching for the research group when registering the article. 
• Alternatively, you can do this afterward by going to "My Page" and "Result Registrations." Click on the edit pencil for the result you want to link to the project/research group.
• A full guide can be found on Sikt's website.

If the project is funded by the Research Council of Norway, NVA can retrieve some information from the Research Council's project database. You can do this by searching for either the project leader or the project name.

• Use ORCID when submitting articles to ensure that your publications are clearly attributed to you.
• In your ORCID profile, you can list publications, other types of work, funding, participation in peer review, memberships in professional organizations, invitations, and awards – the visibility of each section can be controlled. The profile does not display publication statistics.
• You may (or may be required to) provide your ORCID when applying for funding or publishing.

Please note that you should not create a new ORCID profile if you have forgotten your password. ​​​​​Click on "Forgot your password" or "ORCID ID". Contact ORCID if you are registered with an old email address. 

• Open access increases visibility. When a publication is freely available for reading, it has the potential to reach many more readers than research literature published behind a paywall. Publications requiring payment are only accessible to individuals or institutions with a subscription.
• Choosing open access is also mandatory. All publications from USN must be stored in USN Open to ensure open access.
• Projects funded by the Research Council of Norway and the EU: All research results funded by Norwegian or EU funds must be published openly. This can be done by publishing in open access journals or uploading the AAM version of your article to NVA.

• USN's institutional rights policy ensures that all scientific articles authored by USN employees can be made openly available from the time of publication with a Creative Commons license.
• Read more under Where should you publish?