Open science at UiT

The Munin archive

Munin Open Research Archive is UiT’s open research archive. Munin was launched in 2006 as an open archive for making scientific works available to employees and students. It is operated by the University Library. 

The Munin archive contains master’s and PhD theses, as well as published journal articles, books, book chapters, reports, conference papers, etc.. UiT’s goal is to make as many academic and research documents produced by UiT’s researchers and master’s/PhD students openly accessible as possible. Both published and unpublished works can be made available in Munin.

Munin is based on self-archiving, and the authors themselves are responsible for depositing a full-text version of their work to make it available. Read more about self-archiving.

Master's theses and doctoral dissertations shall be submitted for assessment via the submission portal in Munin. After the thesis / dissertation has been approved, it can become accessible in Munin. The student has the option of limiting or deferring accessibility of the thesis / dissertation in Munin; the university library always takes such wishes into account, as well as any limitations imposed by publishers about the accessibility of published articles, etc.

Doctoral dissertations must be openly available no later than five years after the dissertation. As a general rule, published parts of the dissertation must be openly available either in a journal with open access or in Munin. See Regulations for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD) at the University of Tromsø - Norwegian Arctic University (requires login).

Journal articles, reports, book chapters and other publications may be uploaded via the Cristin post for the article/document. Rule of thumb: if you have published open access, upload the published version of the article/document. Otherwise, upload a PDF of the final, peer-reviewed, manuscript version of the article/document. This is the last version after peer review, but without the magazine's layout, logo, page numbers, page layout, etc. The library will check what is permitted before the publication is made accessible in Munin.

Questions? 

Contact munin@ub.uit.no

Updated: 27.01.2026, updated by: Lars Nordmo