Before publishing, you should always check whether the publishing channel is level 1 or 2 in the scientific publishing channel register. The register also has information about:

• National open publishing agreements. (Overview of NTNUs agreements for publishing Open Access).
• Open access journals retrieved from DOAJ – Directory of Open Access Journals.

NTNUs requirements

To meet the requirements for open access at NTNU, you must:

• Publish with open access
• Archive in The Norwegian Research Information Repository (self-archiving)

External funding? 

Does your research have funding from the Norwegian Research Council, the EU or another Plan S financier? Then, you have to use the Journal Checker Tool to check if the publishing channel is compatible with plan S requirements. 

Other external financiers may have different requirements. Check your project contract for terms. 

Open access requirements and guidelines

• National goals and guidelines for open access to scientific articles
• Research Council of Norway - Plan S and open access
• EU guidelines - publication and research data

Employees are free to manage their copyright to non-fiction publications themselves, but NTNU recommends that employees try to retain copyright.

Recommended licenses

To retain copyright, NTNU recommends the license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). This license allows reuse of scientific publications, while crediting the author.

See NTNU's open science guidelines and recommended licenses.

When signing a publishing contract with a publisher, researchers should be aware of what rights they retain and what rights they assign to the publisher.

When registering your publications in The Norwegian Research Information Repository, it is important that you register the same address that you provide in the publication.

• How to write your NTNU address correctly

Secure your research identity

ORCID - Open Researcher and Contributor ID is an international standard for unique identification of researchers and contributors to research.

An ORCID identifier is associated with research activities and can be used throughout your academic career. With ORCID, research results are associated  with the same researcher, even if there are changes in the name, place of residence or place of work/research institution (in Norway or in the rest of the world).

• Watch a video on how ORCID works.

Self-archiving means that a full-text version of a research work is uploaded to an open, institutional knowledge archive. For NTNU, this is The Norwegian Research Information Repository.

Archive publication

As an author, you are obliged to upload your scientific publications to The Norwegian Research Information Repository (NVA) as soon as possible after publication to ensure open access, regardless of the journal/platform in which the research is published. See How to self-archive scientific articles.

Archive your doctoral thesis in full text version

Register and publish your doctoral thesis

Archive research data

If you have data you want to publish, you can use NTNU's archive for research data, NTNU Open Research Data.
 
For more information, see archiving research data.

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