Rights retention policy
The rights retention policy ensures that researchers at the University of Inland Norway can make a version of their scientific articles openly available immediately (upon the publisher's publication) in the Norwegian Research Information Repository (NVA).
INN's rights retention policy
The board of the University of Inland Norway (INN) held a meeting on 26 September 2024 and adopted the following rights policy applicable to scientific articles, effective from 1 October 2024:
- INN staff are free to choose where to publish their scientific articles.
- INN has a non-exclusive right to make all scientific articles authored by students and employees affiliated with the institution available under a Creative Commons license in the Norwegian Research Information Repository (NVA).
- Researchers can exempt individual articles from this rights retention policy.
- INN is legally responsible for managing and interpreting the rights retention policy.
General information
The legal responsibility lies with the institution, not the individual researcher. The institution is legally responsible for interpreting the policy, implementing it, resolving any disputes regarding its interpretation and application, and handling requests for exceptions to the rights retention policy for individual articles.
The rights retention policy ensures that INN staff retain the rights to share and use their accepted manuscript versions (AAM) of scientific articles.
The policy aligns with rights retention policies at most other Norwegian universities and colleges, as well as the rights strategy outlined by Plan S.
The library handles uploads from NVA and makes them available, as well as managing exceptions for individual articles.
What does the rights policy mean for employees at INN?
The rights retention policy ensures that you can make the accepted manuscript version of your scientific articles available immediately (upon the publisher's publication, i.e. without delay/embargo) in NVA. This allows you to meet requirements and policies for open access to articles, regardless of the journal in which they were published.
- If you have co-authored an article that is published as open access on the journal's website with an open license, you should upload the published version, the version of record.
- If you have co-authored a non-open access article (without an open license) in a subscription-based journal, you can upload the accepted manuscript version of the article. This version is peer-reviewed but without the publisher’s formatting, proof, copy-editing, layout, etc.
- You do not need to inform publishers about the rights retention policy. The information on this website serves as prior notice. After the accepted manuscript version is made available in Brage, you are free to share it further under the same license.
How to make articles open by archiving in NVA
Exceptions
Staff may request that individual articles be exempted from the rights policy by notifying us.
In the same form, it is possible to request that the accepted manuscript version be made available under a different Creative Commons license than CC BY. Please submit your request before uploading the article in NVA.
For questions, contact the library at publisering@inn.no.
Background
It is a research policy goal—and part of the university's research strategy—that the results of research should be open access. There is also an expectation that all parts of the research process should be opened up and made accessible.
INN's strategy (2021–2026) states that the university practices open research and that publications and research data from the institution should be openly accessible — with the guiding principle of 'as open as possible, as closed as necessary'.