To communicate research
- Plan your communication from the start and start early to consider your target audiences and how to best reach them.
- Share information about you and your research on your personal page on umu.se as a way of expanding your network and attracting other researchers to collaborate with you.
- You should also describe your research project or doctoral project on umu.se.
- If your research is conducted as part of a research group, research area or profile area, you should also present it on umu.se to make it more visible.
- Participate in science outreach events to disseminate your research to the public.
To prepare to publish research
- Before submitting your manuscript, make sure the publisher offers copyright and licensing options that align with your wishes and any requirements from your funding bodies.
- Check whether the project’s collaboration agreements give the partner the right to review the publication to ensure it does not include information that could be classified as secret. Read more about secrecy for research collaborations.
- Remove any information classified as secret from your publication.
- If you intend to apply for a patent on an invention, your invention must not be revealed before the patent application has been filed. As such, you need to wait to publish your findings until you have decided necessary means of protecting your invention.
- Read about your options, the University’s recommendations, and your funding body’s requirements for open access publishing.
- When it comes to publishing, you should choose your publishing channel carefully. It should be of good quality, reach your target audiences, and meet other requirements and wishes you have, such as being included in the Norwegian Register.
- Register all your research publications in DiVA, including conference contributions, artistic projects and popular science contributions.
To make your research data accessible
- Umeå University recommends that you make the research data accessible using the FAIR principles and so others can find them.
- Before making research data accessible, you need to assess whether you are allowed to disclose the data. To determine this, conduct a secrecy examination. If the project’s research data contains information classified as secret or personal data, you may not publish them. You are, however, allowed to publish a description of the research data.
- To make data available, you need to choose a suitable repository and review the terms of the repository to ensure that you are not restricted in how you can use the data in new projects.
