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The Norwegian Research Information Repository (NVA) - Information for master’s students

All student's theses submissions must be submitted to WISEflow only. There will be an automatic integration of the master’s theses to NVA. The theses will be available in NVA after the censorship and the appeal deadline, unless there is a confidentiality agreement or publication has been postponed (embargoed).

About publishing in NVA

The university by the Department of Academic Affairs (Studieavdelingen) has decided that approved master's theses will be published in NVA, so that all content will be openly available in full text on the internet, unless the theses are restricted by law.

Students must ensure that the thesis does not contain material that violates confidentiality agreements, privacy concerns, or copyright.

When deciding whether to publish your thesis in the repository, please consider the following:

  • If you choose to not publish the thesis, the title, author and synopsis will still be published in the repository.
  • If you choose to postpone publication (embargo), only the title and author will be published after the deadline for appeal has expired. The thesis and the synopsis are published when the embargo period has elapsed. 
  • If you choose to both refuse publication, and subject the thesis to embargo, the synopsis will be published after the embargo period has elapsed. Meanwhile, the thesis will remain unpublished indefinitely. However, you can still request access to the thesis in the P360 digital archive, if it does not contain sensitive personal information. 
  • Please note that master's theses are in principle public. If the thesis is not subject to restriction required by law or the embargo period has expired, access to master's theses that are in the university's ordinary archive (currently Public 360) will be granted even if the thesis has not been published in the NVA science archive.

Information from the Department of Academic Affairs (Studieavdelingen)

Degree thesis at NMBU

Overview of applications, agreements and templates for students

See also the NMBU University Library's website regarding the Norwegian Research Information Repository (NVA) about copyright and the content of the National Archives of Science.

  • Publication in NVA in brief
    • The University will publish the thesis in NVA so that the full content will be openly available in full-text version on the internet. (If your thesis is confidential: select Thesis - Confidential thesis or Postponed publication).
    • Your thesis will be stored in NVVA, NMBU’s electronic research repository, and will always be accessible via a permanent internet address.
    • You will retain the copyright to your thesis, while NMBU is permitted to publish it in NVA.
    • NVA is indexed by Google Scholar.
    • NVA observes the international OAI (Open Archives Initiative) standard for exchange of metadata, and your thesis is therefore retrievable via national and international information services such as OAIster.
    • The online publication is also a way of marketing your master’s thesis to a wider audience.
  • Publication agreement for student's theses in NVA

    1 Permission to make material available in NVA

    1.1 The author hereby grants NMBU a free, non-exclusive right to make the submitted electronic material, hereinafter called the material, available in electronic form via NVA.

    1.2 The author grants NVA users the right to freely copy and distribute the material on non-commercial terms. Commercial use of the material is only permitted by special agreement with the author or a party representing the author.

    2 NMBU's obligations and responsibilities

    2.1 NMBU shall provide access to the material in the form in which it was submitted to NMBU, including text, tables, graphics, images, multimedia content etc., but subject to such technical adaptations as are deemed necessary for publication.

    2.2 NMBU shall protect the material from being changed by unauthorised persons/third parties insofar as this is possible given the technical solutions used.

    2.3 NMBU shall not have any rights to the material over and above the rights explicitly set out in this agreement.

    2.4 NMBU is not liable for the content of material published via NVA or for any other actions on the part of the author. NMBU shall not be liable for any damage or loss that arises in connection with this agreement, unless the damage or loss was caused willfully or by gross negligence on the part of NMBU or a party for which NMBU is responsible. Such liability shall not cover indirect damage or loss.

    3 The author's obligations and responsibilities

    3.1 The author shall comply with NMBU’s guidelines for publication in NVA.

    3.2 When entering into agreements with journals, publishing companies etc. for the publication of material covered by this agreement, the author shall endeavour to safeguard NMBU’s rights under this agreement in the best possible way.

    3.3 It is up to the author to clarify which consequences publication of the material in NVA will have in relation to publishing companies, journals or other copyright holders. The author guarantees that he/she is the author of the submitted material and has complete freedom to dispose of it. If any other parties have rights that rule out publication in electronic form via NVA without permission from a third party, the author must obtain the necessary consent. If the material has more than one author, the author who has submitted the material guarantees that he/she has obtained the necessary consent from the other authors. If the material or parts thereof has previously been published in a journal or by a publishing company, or if there are plans to publish the material or parts thereof in a journal or through a publishing company, the author guarantees that he/she has obtained the necessary consent from the journal/publishing company.

    3.4 The author guarantees that the material neither contains material that can be deemed to come into conflict with applicable Norwegian law nor contains links to any such material.

    3.5 If NMBU should become liable in damages in relation to a third party because the author has not fulfilled his/her obligations under this agreement, the author shall indemnify NMBU. 

    4 Transfer and termination of the agreement

    4.1 NMBU can only transfer its rights and/or obligations under this agreement to a third party on the condition that the author’s interests under the agreement are safeguarded in the transfer agreement.

    4.2 NMBU has an unlimited right to suspend access to the material.