National Research Archive (NVA) Now Available for OUS Researchers

Former Cristin users
Former Cristin users can log in via the ID portal and retain the same affiliation with OUS as before.
You may be prompted to register an ORCID. This is strongly recommended but not mandatory.

New authors/users: Registering yourself in NVA
If have a Cristin user account, you are also a user in NVA. If not, you can register in NVA using the ID portal/Bank-ID.
See the attached guide.
You will then become a user in the system, but you will not be able to register or edit anything.

To gain access to these functions, you must obtain the status of registrator.
Send an email to NVA-administrator@ous-hf.no including the following information:

• Full name
• Date of birth
• Position and percentage of employment
• Division (clinic), department, section
• You will receive confirmation from the administrator that you have been affiliated with OUS.

Editing articles where you are a co-author, including registration of Research Council project codes before reporting
Once you have been granted registrator status, you can edit entries (articles) where you are listed as a co-author.
You can, among other things, add Research Council project codes to ensure the article is included in automatic reporting.
User guides are available here: User Guides NVA

Editing articles where you are not a co-author – contact a curator
You can only edit articles where you are listed as an author.
If you are tasked with editing entries for others, you must be a curator.
Each clinic has at least one curator (formerly superuser), and many departments have their own.
When logged into NVA, click the OUS building icon (temple icon) in the top menu, then the “Curators” button in the left menu to see who the curator is for your clinic/department.
Note: If you have an affiliation in the higher education (HE) sector with Feide login, you may automatically be assigned to that affiliation and only see curators for that institution (e.g., UiO).
To access the OUS affiliation, you must log in again and ask the system to “forget” the HE account to log in with your OUS affiliation.

Archiving files in NVA is possible, but they will not be openly accessible until a file curator has reviewed the formalities
A significant improvement with NVA for OUS authors without HE sector affiliation is the ability to upload files linked to registered entries—especially for green open access to a version of the article that can be published outside a paywall, typically the author accepted manuscript (AAM).
Initially, the file will only be accessible to authors with NVA affiliation and curators.
A few curators will have file curator status and, after assessing the formal basis for publication, can “publish” the file/manuscript—making it openly available to all.
The assessment of the formal basis includes checking whether, upon submission, it was indicated that AAM access should be granted (if possible in the journal’s portal), whether a separate agreement for such publication exists (applies to OUS), or whether it is covered by a rights policy that allows publication (e.g., UiO).
Note: Institutions in the HE sector often have established routines for publication and may have already published the file.
For OUS, this is new, and it may take some time if we are the ones conducting the assessment.

Uploading your own reports and other file types that should have a DOI (Digital Object Identifier)
If someone at OUS has produced a report that should be archived and publicly available via NVA, this is possible.
However, OUS does not yet have access to assign DOIs, which is important.
Similarly, it is possible to upload other files—both hidden files and files to share with others, such as datasets.
It is currently unclear whether there are size limitations for such files and whether NVA is the best/recommended platform for such data sharing.