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Register research in NVA

Register research in NVA

Norwegian Research Information Repository (NVA) is the national solution for registering, reporting and making research results available.
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About NVA

The Norwegian Research Information Repository (NVA) is the national system for registering and reporting research activities for institutions in the higher education, institute and health sectors in Norway. NVA supports the standardized and quality-assured reporting of research activities and contributes to increasing the visibility, accessibility, and dissemination of research conducted across the Norwegian research sector.

NVA is used to report data on scholarly publications to the national authorities through the annual Norwegian Scientific Index (NVI) reporting. In this context, the term scientific refers to the publication categories defined by the NVI reporting framework. It does not imply that other forms of research or research outputs are considered non-scientific.

Annual deadlines

The deadline for registering scientific publications in NVA is 31 January of the year following publication.

The deadline for submitting proposals for new level 1 publication channels to the Norwegian Registry for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers (kanalregister.hkdir.no) for the current publication year is 30 November.

Access to NVA

Employees at OsloMet can log in to NVA (nva.sikt.no) with Feide ID. It is also possible to log in with ID-porten. In order to register new publications and projects, and edit existing ones, you must be logged in.

Researcher profile in NVA

My page in NVA (sikt.no).

All OsloMet employees have a public researcher profile in NVA that is searchable by other users. It is important to keep this profile up to date as the information stored in the public researcher profile is imported to the employee profile page on OsloMet.

Your public researcher profile continues to exist even if you end your employment at OsloMet. You can continue to update your profile by logging in to NVA using ID-porten.

You are encouraged to set up an ORCID profile and connect it to your public researcher profile in NVA. This facilitates the import of research outputs into NVA and helps improve the quality and accuracy of your research data.

Connect ORCID to your own profile (sikt.no)

Registration of research results in NVA

What should be registered in NVA?

It is mandatory to register results in the following categories:

  • Academic article
  • Academic review article
  • Academic monograph
  • Academic commentary
  • Academic chapter

All academic staff are encouraged to register all research outputs, dissemination activities, and artistic research and development activities (KUF) in NVA. This is important to increase the visibility and impact of individual researchers’ work as well as OsloMet’s overall research activity. Results registered in NVA will be displayed on both your researcher profile in NVA ("My page") and the employee profile on OsloMet's website.

Publications can be registered in NVA in two ways: through automatic import or by manual registration. A substantial number of scientific articles are imported automatically from Scopus, while publications that are not available through import must be registered manually. 

Researchers are responsible for ensuring that all their publications are correctly registered in NVA.

Register results in NVA (sikt.no).

Projects and research groups

Projects hosted by OsloMet and funded by the Research Council of Norway (NFR), the European Union (EU), or other external sources must be registered in NVA. Project leaders are encouraged to create the project record in NVA and ensure that project participants and related publications are correctly linked to the project. 

For projects funded by the Research Council of Norway, the project number must be entered in the "Project affiliation" field. This enables automatic transfer of relevant data to the NFR project database (Prosjektbanken).

Register a project in NVA (sikt.no).

Help with registration in NVA

Faculties and centres at OsloMet have superusers/NVA curators who guide researchers in how to register projects and results in NVA.

All user guides (sikt.no).

Self-archiving and licenses

To comply with institutional and national guidelines, as well as open access requirements from funders such as the Research Council of Norway (NFR) and the European Union (EU), peer-reviewed articles must be made openly available through NVA. This requirement also applies to articles published in journals and by publishers that do not provide open access. 

OsloMet has adopted a rights retention policy that safeguards researchers' right to make their publications openly available in NVA, regardless of publisher restrictions. For publications that are not openly accessible, this means that the latest version of the accepted manuscript (AAM) must be uploaded to NVA. For publications that are already openly available, the publisher's version may be uploaded. 

Files uploaded to NVA should be assigned an open standard licence. OsloMet recommends the Creative Commons licence CC BY 4.0.

Contact

Questions about NVA? Contact The University Library. E-mail: ub.forskningsstotte@oslomet.no

Addressing and author affiliation

  • Author affiliation for OsloMet employees

    Employees at OsloMet should use the author affiliation "OsloMet – storbyuniversitetet" or "OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University" when a publication is based on work carried out as part of their position at OsloMet. The names of relevant sub-units, such as faculties, departments, centres, or similar organisational units, may also be included if it is desirable to make the affiliation more specific.

  • Author affiliation for employees with part-time positions

    Employees at OsloMet who hold a part-time position at another institution may credit the part-time employer in addition to OsloMet if the publication is based on work carried out as part of that position. 

    Employees who hold a part-time position at OsloMet should include OsloMet as an author affiliation if the publication is based on work carried out in their OsloMet position. OsloMet may be listed together with the employee's main employer when relevant. 

    The institution where the author holds their primary position should be listed first.

  • Author affiliation for candidates in OsloMet's PhD programmes

    PhD candidates employed by OsloMet must, like other academic employees, include OsloMet as an author affiliation when the publication is based on work carried out as part of their position at OsloMet. 

    Externally employed PhD candidates should include OsloMet as an author affiliation when OsloMet has made a necessary and substantial contribution to, or provided an essential basis for, the published work. Active and substantial involvement from an OsloMet supervisor in the publication process is considered a sufficient contribution.

  • Author affiliation for externally funded researchers with connections to OsloMet

    Individual units are encouraged to inform externally funded researchers with connections to OsloMet about the importance of including "OsloMet – storbyuniversitetet" as an author affiliation, in accordance with good practice for acknowledging institutional contributions and collaborations. 

    Guidelines for crediting scientific publications to institutions (PDF in Norwegian, npi.hkdir.no).