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Publishing your student thesis

By publishing your thesis in Norwegian Research Information Repository (NVA), it will be accessible in Google Scholar and other search engines. The thesis is not currently searchable in Oria.
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Why publish your student thesis?

As a researcher or student, you rely on access to the work of other scholars – such as master’s theses, academic articles, and other research outputs. This access is made possible through the spirit of solidarity within the research community, and providing access to your own results. Therefore OsloMet encourages students to deposit their work in open digital repositories like NVA (nva.sikt.no). About OsloMet's Open Access policy (ansatt.oslomet.no).

OsloMet encourages its students to publish all bachelor's and master's theses. All theses that have been approved following examination can be published. The thesis must be submitted in PDF format and follow the requirements for universal design. Make your Word documents accessible (microsoft.com).

Exemptions from publication

When submitting your bachelor's or master's thesis in WISEflow, you decide whether you want it published. As an author, you can decide for yourself whether your bachelor's or master's thesis should be publicly available or whether restrictions should be placed on the thesis.

You cannot choose to publish your thesis if it contains information that is subject to confidentiality or that affects financial interests. A thesis that is subject to statutory confidentiality (§ 13 of the Public Administration Act) shall not be made available in NVA.

You can choose to postpone publication in NVA for up to 10 years. You can choose this when you submit your thesis in Wiseflow. This may, for example, be relevant if you are going to publish an article based on your master's thesis.

Data privacy in bachelor’s and master’s theses.

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 delay 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 master´s 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.

If none of these options are suitable, please choose the one that suits you best and then contact the University Library by email for withdrawal or deletion: ub.forskningsstotte@oslomet.no.

Publication agreement

The publication agreement can be found when you submit the thesis in WISEflow. By accepting this agreement, you as the author grant the University Library, on behalf of OsloMet – the Metropolitan University, the right to make the submitted document available in a repository free of charge. As the author, you may choose not to publish.

  • This agreement does not prevent the author from publishing the document in paper form or electronically elsewhere in an identical or modified version.
  • The author shall submit the document in a machine-readable format specified by OsloMet.
  • The author guarantees that he or she has copyright to the work, or permission from the copyright holders to publish the text on the internet.
  • OsloMet does not have access to commercial exploitation of the document.
  • The work may be used, i.e. referenced, linked to, quoted from, printed and downloaded within the framework of the Copyright Act of 15 June 2018 (the Copyright Act, lovdata.no) as amended.

Please note that master's theses are in principle public. If the thesis is not subject to a clause or the embargo period has expired, access to master's theses that are in the university's archive (currently Public 360) will be granted even if the thesis has not been published in NVA.

How to get your thesis published in NVA

You submit your student thesis digitally in the submission portal.

If you have questions related to unpublished previous master's theses, you must contact your study administration.

For other questions, please send an email to ub.forskningsstotte@oslomet.no.