Publish your research in NVA
Norwegian Research Information Repository (NVA) is the national system for registering and reporting research activities, as well as for making research activities openly available. NVA, which in early Fall 2025 replaces the information system Cristin and the institutional repository HVL Open, includes publications by our students and researchers. The main goal is to make research at HVL visible and accessible to all.
For employees
In accordance with HVL's Open Access policy, all academic articles (journal articles) written by HVL researchers must be made openly accessible. You contribute to this goal by uploading your journal articles to NVA.
As an employee, your can archive your own publications after registering in NVA. Publications in Open Access journals should be uploaded in the version produced by the publisher, whereas for publications in subscription journals you should normally upload the accepted manuscript file. Before publishing, the library checks what is allowed by the publisher. Read more about such self-archiving on our Open Access website ("Ways to Open Access").
Reports and papers published in HVL's publishing series are also stored in NVA.
Self-archiving of PhD dissertations
PhD dissertations submitted at HVL must be archived in NVA. This applies for all article-based dissertations, and monographs when possible, cf. our Open Access Policy. NVA makes the dissertation findable through services like Oria, and openly available to researchers, students and a wider readership.
This is how you self-archive your dissertation:
- Log in to NVA and find or register your dissertation
- Upload your dissertaion file (preferrably in Pdf format), see Register results in NVA ("4. Files and licences") for instructions.
- The dissertation is sent to the library, who will clear it for archiving. Articles that have not been published open access will in some cases not be publishable as part of the dissertation, but most publishers will accept archiving of the accepted manuscript version, in which case the library will make sure access is postponed until any embargo period has passed.
The agreement with the publisher, and their web pages, will usually clarify whether the manuscript or the Version of Record can be archived as part of the dissertation. Many publishers also use Copyright Clerance Center for easy copyright clearance, available through a link called “Reprints and permissions” or similar on the article’s web page.
Monographs can normally be archived in their entirety, but if you want to publish it as a book, you should check with your publisher whether they accept open archiving of the original, submitted dissertation, that is an earlier version of the book manuscript, or whether they want an embargo to come into effect later.
For students
All master theses are published in HVL Open. Bachelor theses graded A or B are also published. You consent to the publication of your thesis when submitting it. Read more on the website Publication of assignments.