Allocation of NMR time and related user fees are partially subject to interdepartmental agreements at UiO as detailed below. Fees will be determined by funding (internal / external), as well as research category (supported / contract).
Users from UiO, industrial companies and hospitals with approved technical competence as determined by the NMR Center Leader may be granted personal access to instruments. Users depending on technical operator assistance will be subject to additional fees.
The NMR Center Leader will allocate access time among users and instruments based on a fair and reasonable consideration of available capacity and scientific need.
Data Archiving
It is the responsibility of each individual to maintain an archive of her/his own NMR data. New data is regularly (every 20 min.) copied to nmr-server02.uio.no. It is unclear if USIT is making a secondary copy of the data on the server. Your data is very important to you. A spectrometer hard disk crash or server crash could wipe out all of your data and can happen at any time. It is YOUR JOB to maintain and archive your own data.
Externally funded contribution research projects at University departments.
Academic staff and students affiliated with a university or a research institution participating in an externally financed project (e.g. RCN, EU, NSF and NIH) can be charged a flat yearly fee to avoid an extremely high cost. For short projects an academic price of 200 NOK/hour + VAT is applied. If you book a normal working day you will also be charged for the coming night and billed for 24 hours. The NMR fee should be included and specified in the project budget.
Due to the large span in required data acquisition time from small organic molecules to large biomolecules, fees will vary. The NMR Center Manager will settle the fee level in dialogue with the Project Leader based on estimated acquisition time and extent of use. The following fee levels are indicated for combined access to 2 x 400 MHz, 500 MHz and 600 MHz instruments:
Low – Mid MW organic molecules PhD student NOK 75.000,- /year
Low – Mid MW organic molecules Post Doc NOK 100.000,- /year
High MW biomolecules or other extensive use PhD student/Post Doc NOK 150.000,- /year
If the user is not from UiO 25 % VAT must be added.
Externally funded contribution research projects (bidragsprisprosjekter), originating at University hospitals (AHUS, OUS, St. Olavs Hospital, Haukeland Hospital and so forth, mainly NMR-metabolomics projects) performed at 800 MHz with cryo probe or at a 600 MHz instrument with cryo probe are paying:
Hourly instrument rate in non collaborative projects on regular working days between 08.00 and 17.00: 250 NOK + 25 %VAT.
Hourly instrument rate in collaborative projects (common publications with NMR-personnel) on regular working days between 08.00 and 17.00: 200 NOK without VAT.
Hourly instrument rate in non collaborative projects during weekends from 17.00 Friday to 09.00 Monday: 250 NOK + 25 % VAT. This applies to National Holidays as well.
Hourly instrument rate in collaborative projects (common publications with NMR-staff) in weekends from 17.00 Friday to 09.00 Monday: 200 NOK without VAT. This applies to 24 hours on National Holidays as well.
If no other nmr-science can be run at night-time by other users - between several days booked by you, you will regretfully be charged for the night time between successive days. Research groups are encouraged to have enough personnel available for the instrument(s) to be be used without interruption during night-time and weekends.
Technical and scientific assistance in non collaborative projects costs 1000 NOK + 25 % VAT pr hour pr individual.
Technical and scientific assistance in collaborative projects (common publications with NMR-staff) is free of charge.
Industrial and commercial contract research.
Depending upon available capacity, the NMR Centre offer commercial NMR services with companies. Approved users are granted personal access as determined by the NMR Centre Leader to instruments in the 400 MHz - 600 MHz range. Technical operator assistance is mandatory for manual use of 500 MHz, 600 MHz and 800 MHz instruments. When the 600 MHz and 800 MHz instruments is running in automatic mode (ICONNMR) operator assistance is not needed.
Approved customers will be granted online access to their data from our server.
Fees are differentiated according to field strength and probe type as detailed below.
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400 MHz |
Instrument fee: NOK 400 / hour * Operator optional |
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500 MHz |
Instrument fee: NOK 600 / hour* Operator mandatory |
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600 (with room temperature probe or cryo- probe) and 800 MHz (cryo probe) |
Instrument fee: NOK 1000 / hour* Operator mostly mandatory |
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Technical assistance |
Operator fee: NOK 1000 / hour* |
Internally funded academic staff and students covered by cost sharing agreements
In the absence of external funding, academic users covered by cost sharing agreements (e.g. Departments of Pharmacy and Chemistry at UiO) will be granted free access to the NMR instruments within capacity limitations.
Academic staff not covered by cost sharing agreements.
Academic staff and students not covered by cost sharing agreements are offered access to instruments in the 400 MHz - 800 MHz range. For short projects an academic price of 200 NOK/hour + VAT is applied. If you book a normal working day for manual acquisitions you will also be charged for the coming night and billed for 24 hours. The stated fee will be subject to additional 25% VAT if the user is not from UiO.
Due to the large span in required data acquisition time from small organic molecules to large biomolecules, fees will vary. The NMR Center Manager will settle the fee level in dialogue with the Project Leader based on estimated acquisition time and extent of use. The following fee levels are indicated:
Low – Mid MW organic molecules PhD student NOK 75.000,- /year
Low – Mid MW organic molecules Post Doc NOK 100.000,- /year
High MW biomolecules or other extensive use PhD student/Post Doc NOK 150.000,-/year
If the user is not from UiO 25 % VAT must be added.
Documentation of adequate knowledge to access NMR spectrometers.
Users must document adequate knowledge of NMR to access the spectrometers. Advanced user courses in NMR are required to run any of the nmr spectrometers in manual mode. Nevertheless, lower requirements are set to use the spectrometers when they are in automatic mode, e.g. ICONNMR on AVneo400, AVIIIHD400, AVI600, AVII600 and AVneo800. Users who do not have the required knowledge will not be allowed to use any spectrometer without supervision. All users are required to participate in a HSE course for NMR lab.
Mandatory Acknowledgment for use of all NMR instruments - 400 MHz - 800 MHz.
All users must acknowledge the University of Oslo NMR Center and also acknowledge the Research Council of Norway for financial contributions in connection with the use of all NMR instruments - in all publications, patents, books, meeting presentations and similar.
Mandatory Acknowledgment for use of AVneo400 and AVneo800 NMR instruments.
"This work was partly supported by the Research Council of Norway through the Norwegian NMR Platform, NNP (226244 and 322373)."