Open Access publishing
Rights Retention Strategy
VID’s board has adopted an Institutional Rights Retention Policy that grants researchers at the institution the right to make their scholarly articles openly available in the Norwegian Research Information Repository (NVA), regardless of where they are published. Since 2022, several Norwegian universities and colleges have joined this strategy. The policy takes effect from November 2025.
Purpose of the Rights Retention Policy
- Ensure open access to VID’s research in line with national and international requirements and expectations.
- Give researchers greater control over their own publications.
- Enable publishing in hybrid or closed journals while complying with open access requirements from national and international funders.
What does this mean for you as a researcher at VID?
- You upload the Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) to NVA and may provide open access without delay or embargo.
- You retain enhanced rights to your own publications.
What do you do in NVA?
- You must upload the AAM when registering articles.
- You may exempt an article from VID’s rights retention policy without providing a reason. This is done using a reservation form after registering and uploading the AAM
Policy for open access to scholarly articles
The rights retention policy is adopted by VID’s board and takes effect on November 1, 2025.
Open access articles with a Creative Commons license will be made available under the same license.
Articles without open access must be made available as AAMs under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY). After being made available in NVA, researchers may freely share the AAM.
Individual articles may be exempted from the policy. Application does not require justification. The AAM must still be uploaded to NVA.
It is not necessary to inform publishers about VID’s rights retention policy. The information on this webpage serves as prior notice. VID holds the legal responsibility towards publishers and handles any disputes.
The library provides support and follows up on licenses and publishing in NVA. Please contact the library at openaccess@vid.no if you have questions.
Open access agreements
VID has open access agreements with several publishers. Such agreements are also known as "publish and read" (PAR) agreements.
- The agreements apply to free publication in hybrid journals.
- The agreements apply to peer-reviewed articles in approved publishing channels, accepted for publication during the agreement period.
- The first author or corresponding author must be affiliated with VID.
- Authors must name VID as affiliation and use VID email address through the publication process.
In Kanalregisteret (Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers) you can check which publishers and which agreements a journal belongs to.
Several agreements give at discount on the author publication fee (APC) in open access journals (gold open access). In these cases, you must apply for support from the publication fund (see below).
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
This agreement applies to free publishing in CUP's hybrid and gold open access journals.
More information about this agreement (openscience.no, in Norwegian)
Elsevier
This agreement applies to free publication in hybrid journals and Cell Press journals.
The agreement gives a discount of 15% on the publication fee (APC) in gold open access journals.
More information about this agreement, including title lists for publishing and reading (openscience.no)
Sage
This agreement applies to free publication in hybrid journals.
The agreement gives a discount of 20% on the publication fee (APC) in gold open access journals
More information about this agreement, including title lists for publishing and reading (openscience.no)
Springer
This agreement applies to free publication in hybrid open access journals without extra charges.
The agreement gives a discount of 10% on the publication fee (APC) in gold open access journals from Springer and BMC (Palgrave and Nature not included).
More information about the agreement, including title lists for publishing and reading (openscience.no, in Norwegian)
Taylor & Francis
This agreement applies to free publication in hybrid open access journals without extra charges.
More information about this agreement (openscience.no)
Publication fund
In order to publish Open Access, an article processing charge (APC) must be paid. This is covered by either the author of the article or a credited institution. Academic staff at VID can apply for financial support to publish Open Access from VID’s publication fund.
Free publication in a hybrid journal via PAR agreements should be considered before an application is submitted to the publication fund.
- Support is only provided for publication in approved publication channels and the application must be academically justified.
- Support can be applied for for the publication of scientific articles, chapters, anthologies and monographs.
- The first author, corresponding author or editor must be affiliated with VID.
Send your questions to openaccess@vid.no.
Guidelines for Open Access at VID
Approved by the Vice-Rector for Research on 29.11.2018, revised on 20.01.2022 and 25.01.2024
Open Access contributes to making scientific publications freely available, either through open publishing channels (Gold OA) or by depositing research results in open institutional research archives (Green OA).
VID’s guidelines support the national goals and guidelines for open access to scientific articles from the Ministry of Education and Research and the Research Council of Norway.
The goal is that all articles from the research these actors finance will be published with open access from 2024. Thus, researchers, industry, and the public gain access to the latest research and can quickly put it to use.
- Researchers have academic freedom and decide for themselves which journals they want to publish in.
- Researchers should explore the possibilities of publishing their articles in open access journals, preferably gold or diamond.
- Such publishing routes are chosen where this is academically justifiable. When publishing in hybrid journals, which are included in a publishing agreement, you do not need to apply to VID’s Open Access fund to be granted support. Such publishing routes are chosen where this is academically justifiable.
- If two or more journals are considered equivalent and one of them is a gold or diamond open access journal, this should be chosen.
- Upon publishing, researchers register their scientific works in NVA, and upload the articles to NVA for archiving.
- If an article is published with an open license, the published version should be uploaded to NVA and made available there.
- If researchers affiliated with VID publish in a closed subscription journal, the accepted version (author’s accepted manuscript – AAM) should be uploaded to NVA and made available there.
- All peer-reviewed, scientific journal articles where VID is credited, should be deposited in NVA no later than the time of publication.
- Theses are delivered electronically for archiving in the research archive, cf. Guidelines and supplementary provisions for the Ph.D. programs at VID Scientific College Chap. 4 Publication of the dissertation, item d
- Employees are encouraged to make their scientific monographs and anthology chapters available in NVA.
- The library is responsible for information and administrative support to the academic communities,
- The library is responsible for making publications available in NVA.
- The library checks the publisher’s guidelines for self-archiving and assesses which version can possibly be archived in NVA.
- The library administers VID’s Open Access fund (the publishing fund).
Guidelines for Open Access publishing support
Approved by the Vice-Rector for Research on 29.11.2018, revised on 20.01.2022 and 25.01.2024.
- Support for article publication is provided only in approved journals, preferably in recognized international journals (level 2).
- Applicants must provide a scholarly justification for their choice of journal when applying for support from the OA fund.
- VID notes that publishing in a hybrid journal through “Publish and Read” (PAR) agreements must be considered before applying for coverage of publication costs from VID’s publishing fund.
- Articles
- Support is granted only for publishing in OA journals.
- OA publishing in hybrid journals is not covered through this arrangement.
- Articles are normally supported up to NOK 30,000.
- Support is granted once the article has been accepted for publication.
- First authors may receive coverage for up to three articles per year.
- Support does not cover additional fees (colours, pages, etc.).
- Books
- Scientific anthologies will be assessed individually. Applications for support for such publications must be submitted the calendar year before support is paid out.
- Support is not provided for textbooks.
- Support for scientific books is considered based on VID’s author shares.
- It is primarily the author/corresponding author who can apply for support from the OA fund.
- The first author must be affiliated with VID through employment, and grants are preferably given based on author share.
- Any rejections of applications can be appealed to the vice-rector. The vice-rector’s decisions are final and cannot be appealed.
The guidelines may change without notice, without retroactive effect for applications that have already been processed.
Read about open access and publishing at openscience.no.
Copyright and licenses
When you publish a scientific work openly, you need to use an open license. It's most common to use a Creative Commons (CC) license for this purpose. Read more about CC licenses on the Plan S website.
Read access via the agreements
Agreements that include open publishing
You can see all journals that the university has reading access to on openscience.no.
Oria
Articles and journals in the agreements are searchable in Oria.
BrowZine
In BrowZine, you can browse the journals, create your personal journal shelf and be notified about new issues.