Reporting usage through Cristin

Projects granted access to the national e-infrastructure facilities must provide a list of publications from using these resources.

The reported publications are presented to the Sigma2 Board and used by the Resource Allocation Committee (RFK) before allocating resources. Therefore, submission of such publications is compulsory for all projects granted access to the national e-infrastructure. Projects that have received allocations for three years or more must register at least one publication at Cristin-level 1, 2, book or part of a book to receive further allocations.

Reporting e-infrastructure resources is straightforward and must be done through the Cristin publication registry. Most projects, which receive partial funding from the Research Council, are already familiar with this process. The allocation of Sigma2 resources, primarily funded by RCN, should be considered an alternate funding body and consequently added to the list of funding sources for all relevant publications.

The registration of e-infrastructure resources is performed by linking the project number(s) of the allocation(s) to the Cristin publications. The project number format is NN...K and NS...K for compute and storage allocations.

How to report through Cristin?

To expand an existing publication with Sigma2 tags in Cristin, we recommend the procedure:

• Log into Cristin from your home institution portal (if applicable), with your home institution credentials.
• Search your publications.
• For every publication that applies, press the "+ Add funding" under the headline "Funding".
• Search for and select "Sigma2" in the field for a funding source, then add your project number (NN / NS) in the field for "Reference".

It is sufficient that one author tags a publication.

It is the duty of each project responsible to ensure that relevant publications are reported to the Cristin system and tagged with the correct funding source (Sigma2) as described above.

Please note that you can register both software (on GitHub or similar distribution channels) and submit publications, including preprints, in Cristin.

No access to Cristin?

In case you do not have access to Cristin, please send us the below information for each publication by email to contact@sigma2.no, and we will update our database accordingly.

Publication report elements:

• Title of work
• Publisher information with standard codes for authority registers for journal, publisher, series and published books
• Identification elements like volume, year of publication, page references, and ISBN for published books
• All authors and their institutions. Listed in the same order as in the publication
• Specific marking of those authors who list the reporting institution as the author address
• Form of publication:
  • Academic monographs: The publication has a title with an ISBN. It may have one or more authors, and the names are listed in connection with the title
  • Academic articles in anthologies: The publication does not have its own number, but it is associated with a title that has an ISBN. It may have one or more authors, and the names are listed in connection with each publication
  • Academic articles in periodicals, series and web pages (ISSN titles): The publication does not have its own number, but it is associated with a title that has an ISSN. It may have one or more authors, and the names are listed in connection with each publication

Guide for the old Cristin web interface

Please note that this guide applies to the older web interface of Cristin.

To expand an existing publication with Sigma2 tags in Cristin, we recommend this procedure:

• Log into Cristin from your home institution portal (if applicable), with your home institution credentials.
• Search your publications.
• For every publication that applies, press the "Edit" button.
• On the edits, go to the submeny "Project code", and select funding source "Sigma2" (The old code "Notur/Norstore has been changed).

• Hit the "v" arrow to the right to expand the list.
• Keep the cursor in the list and rapidly type the three letters "not".
• When the "Sigma2" funding source is successfully selected, enter applicable project numbers as a comma-separated list in the input field above the funding source pulldown.
• Finish the publication update by pressing "Add".

Acknowledging the use of the Sigma2 e-infrastructure

Projects are required to acknowledge (cite) the use of the national e-infrastructure resources in dissemination and scientific publications.