Journal articles and other publications issued by NILU shall follow the Open Access principles on free access to scientific publications, in accordance with Government guidelines and requirements of the EU and the Research Council of Norway. By this is meant that:
NILU encourages all employees to choose publishing channels that give the public free access to what they publish. When choosing between publication channels of equal academic quality, researchers must choose publication channels that offer open access to the publication, either by open access publishing or by allowing open access through a repository.
All employees at NILU are obliged to deposit a full text version of scientific articles produced in connection with the employment relationship into NILU’s open institutional repository, NILU Brage. This must take place as soon as possible after the article has been accepted and at the latest at the time of publication. This is in line with the requirements from the Research Council of Norway and the EU (Plan S).
- If the article is published with open access with the publisher (gold open access), the publisher’s PDF (Published version, Version of Record) must be deposited.
- If the article is published in a closed channel (subscription journal) that does not allow self-archiving of the publisher’s PDF, the latest peer-reviewed manuscript version (accepted manuscript, Author’s Accepted Manuscript, postprint) must be deposited.
Making the scientific publications openly available will happen within the framework of the publishing contract and the publisher’s principles for self-archiving. The NILU library will offer help in copyright clearance issues.
Adopted December 2017, revised December 2022.