Find information about open access, journals, and the publication fund at USN.
Where you choose to publish is often crucial for whether your research is discovered, read, and hopefully cited. There are many factors to consider, such as language, genre, target audience, and open access.
Please note! The research support pages have been redesigned in preparation for the transition to the new National Research Information Archive (NVA). The transition has been postponed until 19 August, so not all information on these pages will be accurate until the system is in use.
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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 publication fund provides support to cover publication fees for peer-reviewed articles in 'gold' open access journals. The fund can also provide support for open publishing of books and book chapters.
If you have published or plan to publish scientifically, you must check whether the publisher or journal is included in the lists of approved scientific publication channels. If the publisher or journal is not on the lists, you must submit it for evaluation. On the Norwegian Register's (Kanalregisteret) website, you can read more about how to proceed.
It is important to avoid predatory journals and fake conferences to protect your academic integrity and research quality. You can read more about how to identify (un)reliable publications in the Norwegian Register (Kanalregisteret) and find useful tips on Think. Check. Submit. and PhD on Track.
Creative Commons licenses are a copyright tool for sharing your research with open access. CC licenses provide a simple, standardized way to share your research on your terms. With a CC license, you retain your copyright while providing clear conditions for how your work can be reused.
You can read more about CC licenses on the Openscience.no website or on the Creativecommons.org website.
Wondering which license to choose? Using Creative Commons' license selector, you can find the license that best suits your research.
Keep information about yourself, your research, and your projects up to date. Even if your research is of high quality, it won’t be read if others can’t find and access it. Visibility is therefore essential.
Information from NVA contributes to visibility in multiple places.
Log in to min.usn and click on "My Profile" to update your employee profile to automatically retrieve your research outputs from NVA.
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.
ORCID is a platform-independent, non-profit organization. It is used by many publishers, funding agencies, and commercial services as a cross-platform ID.
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.
USN deadline for registering scientific publications and uploading to NVA.
USN has a set deadline for registering scientific publications and uploading them to the Norwegian Research Information Repository (NVA). It is important that researchers meet this deadline to ensure accurate reporting and accessibility of research results. You can read more about how to register publications in NVA on our pages.
National deadline for proposing new publication channels at Level 1.
If you have published or plan to publish scientifically, you must check whether the publisher or journal is included in the lists of approved scientific publication channels. If the publisher or journal is not on the lists, you must submit it for evaluation. On the Norwegian register's (Kanalregisteret) website, you can read more about how to proceed.