Norway has policies for open access to research articles and research data in place. Read more under the heading Open Science Policy.

Work is in progress for a national research repository to replace the current landscape of institutional repositories in Norway. The new repository will be closely linked to, and in some cases merge with, the national CRIS-system Cristin. Both the national repository and Cristin is run by Unit. Unit is also the national Open Access coordinator and hosts the national repository aggregator NORA.

The Norwegian Research Council signed cOAlition S’ Plan S in 2018, requesting that publications on the results from research funded by NCR from 2021 onward be made fully open at the time of publication.

To support both the national policy and NRC’s Plan S, the Norwegian consortium for licence agreements hosted by Unit has been tasked by Universities Norway to negotiate both transformative agreements and agreements with OA-publishers. The agreements are all registered in the ESAC Registry.