Kristiania University College’s Institutional Rights Retention Strategy

The institutional rights retention strategy ensures that researchers retain rights over their own work while meeting open publishing requirements from authorities and research funders. A similar strategy has been implemented at universities and colleges in Norway and internationally.

• Kristiania University College has a non-exclusive right to make all scientific articles authored by staff and students affiliated with the institution available under a Creative Commons license.
• Employees and students affiliated with Kristiania University College must, when publishing in a closed journal, deposit their author’s accepted manuscript (AAM/“postprint”) immediately in NVA. The library ensures that licensing and everything is in order before the file is made public. 
• The accepted manuscript version is normally made available under a CC BY 4.0 license. Articles published in open journals with an open license are made available under the same license used by the publisher.
• Employees and students who wish to opt out of the rights retention strategy may do so for individual articles. Applications for exemption do not need to be justified.
• Kristiania University College, by the rector, is legally responsible for the management and interpretation of the rights retention strategy.

Employees and students can apply via the following form in order to opt out individual articles form the rights retention strategy. No reasoning is required. In the same form, authors can request that the accepted manuscript version be made available under a different Creative Commons license than CC BY, provided it complies with the requirements of the research funder. The application must be submitted before the accepted manuscript version is uploaded to Cristin.

For questions, contact the library at biblioteket@kristiania.no

Below you will find often asked questions about Kristiania University College’s Institutional Rights Retention Strategy.