Revised Open Access Policy

Umeå University promotes making all published research outputs free of all restrictions on access as far as possible. DiVA is a national collaboration and a part of the Open Access initiative according to the Berlin Declaration from 2003. Umeå University supports the declaration, just like the Swedish Research Council and many other research funding bodies do.

The University Library is responsible for the system DiVA and imports about 75 per cent of the university's scholarly publications from Web of Science and other databases. The other 25 per cent is added manually by researchers and administrators. Now, the university's Open Access Policy has been revised.

The primary amendments are:

• Umeå University's researchers no longer need to deposit a full text copy of all scholarly publications in DiVA. Still, all research publications need to be registered. All reports and scholarly publications published by Umeå University should still be registered and deposited as previous.
• Umeå University's researchers are recommended to still continue to publish their research outputs with Open Access as far as possible. If this is not done, it is valuable if a full text copy is published openly accessible in DiVA as well, so-called parallel publication.
• When it comes to full text publications of undergraduate theses, the faculty or department must first get the author's approval.

Read the Open Access Policy

For more information, please contact:

Publishing and Scholarly Services
Umeå University Library