Research Catalogue is a platform for documenting, publishing and sharing artistic research and activities. NTNU employees have access to extended functionality for use in teaching and peer review. On this page you will find information about what you can use the platform for and how to get started.

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What is Research Catalogue?

Research Catalogue (RC) is a non-commercial, multimedia platform for artistic research and activities. With more than 30,000 registered users and 35 institutional partners, the RC is currently the most widely used digital platform for this purpose. RC supports integrated presentations of audio, images, video and text, and facilitates sharing and collaboration. The platform also has peer-review functionality, which means that the platform can be used for journals, applications, student submissions and more.

• Results and publications in NTNU's public portal in RC.
• Overview of other institutional portals in the RC.
• Journals using the RC.

Portals and administrators at NTNU

RC enables institutions to set up their own portals with publicly accessible content, as well as internal portals with access control. At NTNU, the public portal is used primarily to document and showcase artistic research, whilst the internal portals are used for teaching and student submissions within the departments.

• Norwegian University of Science and Technology - Anja Johansen (RC coordinator at NTNU, University Library), Stine Thordarson Moltubakk, University Library (UB), Iris Aasen Brecke, Faculty of humanities (HF), Marko Kovacevic and Sunita Prugsamatz Ofstad, Faculty of Architecture and Design (AD)
• Trondheim Academy of Fine Arts - Diana Lindbjerg Jørgensen
• Department of Music - Anders Kristiansen
• Department of Teacher Education - Elisabeth Kathleen Ofstad

Guidelines for the use of NTNUs RC-portals (in Norwegian, access for students and staff at NTNU).

Create a user and log in

Employees and students at NTNU use Feide login when creating a user and logging in to RC. If you have previously created a user, switch to Feide login from now on.

Log in to Research Catalogue

How to create a new user

1. Go to researchcatalogue.net
2. Click on "Log in" at the top right of the page.
3. Select log in with Feide and log in as usual.

Having trouble logging in or creating a user? Please contact us via NTNU Hjelp.

Using Research catalogue

Please familiarise yourself with the terms of use for RC and NTNU’s guidelines for using NTNU’s RC portals. To post your own content on RC, you must log in via Feide and accept the terms of use from your profile page.

• Search for artistic research and work by others
• Create a media repository
• Create expositions showcasing your own work
• Collaborate and share with others
• Publish artistic research and work:
  
  • Publish in NTNUs portal (guidelines will come soon)
  • Publish in journals using the RC as a platform
  • Self publishing
• Document and archive artistic work. Se more information about research data repositories.

PhD in artistic research

Candidates admitted to the PhD programme in artistic research (PHkunst) may use RC to submit documentation and a critical final reflection. They must follow the submission procedure in RC for PhD candidates (more info will come). See also the information page on doctoral degrees at NTNU and general information about the PHkunst programme.

Teaching and projects

Are you looking for a solution for secure sharing, submission and archiving of multimedial student work? Or do you have a project where you want to collect and share documentation online? As a portal partner in RC, we at NTNU can set up dedicated portals for submission, publication and display of multimedia work. Several departments at NTNU already use internal portals for sharing, submitting and archiving student work. See more information on what a portal is and how it works.

Please contact us via NTNU Hjelp if you wish to use RC in a course, for a project, or for other purposes.

Documentation

If you have received funding for projects and productions from NTNU’s programme for artistic development work (2026–27), you must submit documentation via RC. To meet the requirement for documentation in RC as set out in the call for proposals, you may do one of the following:

1. Submit and have your exposition accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal that uses RC. After publication, you must contact the research adviser at your faculty to link the exposition to NTNU’s portal. If your exposition is not published, you must follow option 2.

2. Submit the exposition for a formal review to NTNU’s public RC portal. See the criteria for the documentation, the pre-submission checklist and the submission procedure (information will be available soon).

Courses and webinars

Do you need help getting started? RC offers an extensive user guide and video tutorials.

Artistic Research Norway and Society for Artistic Research (SAR) offer a number of webinars every semester. Most of these RC-webinars are free and open to all, but they require registration. More details and registration below:

Webinars organised by Artistic Research Norway

• 20 January 10.00–12.00: Research Catalogue Part 2
• 19 February 12.00–14.00: Get to know the Research Catalogue
• 13 April 12.00–14.00: Get to know the Research Catalogue
• 24 April 10.00–12.00: Research Catalogue Part 2

Webinars organised by Society of Artistic Research

• 30 January 15.00-17.00: Intro Webinar for New Users of the RC.
• 23 February 10.30-12.00: RC for Teaching and Learning Purposes – BA and MA-level (NTNU staff and students only).
• 5 March 15.00-17.00: Exposition Creation: Consideration on Design and Structure.
• 26 March 10.30-12.30: Advanced Creation of Expositions Webinar.
• 21 April 10.30-12.00: RC for Teaching and Learning Purposes – PhD-level (NTNU staff and students only).

See recordings of previous webinars by SAR (click on "Open exposition").

Credit bearing courses

The Faculty of Art, Music and Design at the University of Bergen offers credit-bearing courses in the use of RC for PhD candidates in artistic research in Norway, both for beginners and advanced users. Contact phd.kmd@uib.no for more information.

Ownership and data storage

The platform is owned and operated by the Society for Artistic Research (SAR) and uses open source. Content stored on RC is managed by KTH's IT department in Stockholm, which also ensures regular backups. Read more about Research Catalogue.

• Service agreement (NTNU)
• Data handling agreement (NTNU)

Contact us

Contact us via NTNU Hjelp for questions about login/registration, use and training.