Registration in DiVA is mandatory
DiVA is a digital archive and repository for research publications produced at Umeå University. As an employee, you are required to register in DiVA all publications that you produce while employed at the University.
Open access policy for scientific publishing at Umeå University
Your publications are used in evaluations
DiVA-registered scientific publications are used for bibliometric evaluations, visualisations, and analyses of scientific output at Umeå University. This makes it particularly important that all your publications are registered there.
LÄNK: The impact of your research
Publish open access in DiVA
You can use DiVA to make your publications freely available. By uploading a PDF of your publication (known as self-archiving), you ensure that everyone can read it and also fulfil Umeå University’s expectations for open access.
If you do not have permission from the publisher to self-archive, your publication must still be archived according to standard rules. In DiVA, you can choose whether to publish a full text as open access or merely archive it. The latter means that the full text is not visible to the outside world.
Check what the publisher permits
Sometimes, the publisher may have restrictive conditions on how you can share your publication. Check the publication agreement or on the publisher’s website for details and at the same time check whether the publisher has requirements for, for example, an embargo (delayed publication) or a cover page.
The Open Policy Finder database (formerly Sherpa Romeo) allows you to search for journals and publishers to see if a publisher permits the dissemination of your publication. However, you should also read the terms and conditions provided by the publisher.
If you cannot find any information about how you may share your publication, you can contact the publisher and ask for permission.
Visibility through DiVA
When you register your publications to DiVA, they automatically become searchable through other channels, such as Google, Google Scholar and SwePub. Publications with free full texts are also indexed in the European portal OpenAIRE.
All publications in DiVA are automatically assigned a uniform resource number (URN), which is a unique and permanent identifier. At the same time, a permanent link to the publication is also created.
Your publications are visible on your profile
Publications in DiVA linked to your UMU ID are visible on your personal page at umu.se and in other publication lists on the University’s website. You can customise which publications are displayed on your page.
Importing and exporting data
DiVA has an open API, which allows you to retrieve data both automatically and manually. You can create lists of publications to download data, such as for performing your own analyses. It is also easy to import from external databases into DiVA and export publications to your ORCID profile.
LÄNK: Manuals for DiVA
Your publications are accessible in the DiVA portal
Several Swedish universities and other organisations in Sweden use DiVA as a publication database. Each organisation has a local version of DiVA, but there is also a central portal, which retrieves data from the local databases.
