Transcript SHERPA/RoMEO Forthcoming Developments and the API

Developing SHERPA/RoMEO's
role in improving open access
Peter Millington
Centre for Research Communications
University of Nottingham
Mötesplats Open Access 2012
Norrköping, 14 Mars 2012
SHERPA Services
• RoMEO
– Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving
– http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
• JULIET
– Research funders' open access policies
– http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/
• OpenDOAR
– Directory of Open Access Repositories
– http://www.opendoar.org/
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
Scandinavian Repositories
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
JULIET – Funders’ OA Policies
• 98 Funders’ policies (2012-03-08), including:
• Sverige
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Formas
Forskningsrådet för Arbetsliv och Socialvetenskap (FAS)
Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ)
Vetenskapsrådet
• Norge/Noreg
– Forskningsrådet
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
Usage of Interactive RoMEO
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
Daily usage of interactive RoMEO
8000
7000
Number of Page Views
6000
5000
4000
9
3000
2000
1000
0
2010-01-01
2011-01-01
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
2012-01-01
Our biggest users see data like this…
Daily usage of the RoMEO API
1400000
1200000
Number of Requests
1000000
800000
600000
400000
200000
0
01/01/2010
01/01/2011
01/01/2012
Who? What?
• CRIS databases
• All the institution/organisation’s publications
• Archiving rights checked against RoMEO (&
updated)
• Links to full texts, where available
• Otherwise prompt author to deposit full text
• Ease of use increases the uptake of OA
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Bowens, A.; McDonald, R.; Ayres, P.; Robinson, M.(2001)., "The processes and costs
of local guidelines development: experiences from the Path.Finder NHS
consortium",
British Journal of Clinical Governance, Vol.6(3), pp.165-167.
Full text: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/14664100110400688,
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Brabazon, P.; MacCarthy, B.(2010)., "On Markovian approximations for virtual-buildto-order systems",
Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol.61 (10), pp 1471-1484.
You may archive the submitted version of this article – RoMEO
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Deposit Now >>
Brabazon, P.; MacCarthy, B.(2006)., "Fundamental Behaviour of Virtual-Build-toOrder systems",
International Journal of Production Economics, Vol.104 (2), pp. 514-524.
Full text: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/526/
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Brabazon, P.; MacCarthy, B.; Woodcock, A.; Howkins, A.(2010)., "Mass Customization
in the automotive industry: comparing inter-dealing trading and reconfiguration
flexibility in open fulfilment",
Production and Operations Management, Vol.19 (5), pp 489-502.
Contact the publisher about archiving this article - RoMEO
CRIS Suppliers using RoMEO
• Atira, Ålborg, Denmark
– PURE
– http://www.atira.dk/en/pure/
• Avedas AG, Germany
– Converis
– http://www.avedas.com/en/converis.html
• Symplectic Ltd, UK
– Symplectic Elements
– http://symplectic.co.uk/products/publications
Improvements to RoMEO
The RoMEO Journals Database
All journals have the same policy
Clients may have different policies
Some journals are special cases
Compiling our own journal database
• Harvested directly from publishers’ websites
– Greater accuracy and timeliness
– Better mapping of journals to publishers
• Extra data
– Titles and publishers covered by Zetoc or DOAJ
– Fewer journals without policies in RoMEO
• Extra fields
– ESSN, Alternative titles, Selective availability of Paid OA
• Overcoming Zetoc problems
– ‘Trust’ order: RoMEO  DOAJ  Zetoc
RoMEO Journals by Country
Spain, 282
Egypt, 285
Number of Journals
[Other], 2277
France, 453
Netherlands,
457 India, 527
United States,
6632
Germany,
2979
United
Kingdom,
5605
~19,700 journals from 1,006 publishers
New RoMEO home page
EGU is a client of
Copernicus, so EGU
policies apply
Exceptions to the policy
Special policy
Internationalising SHERPA/RoMEO
• Translating RoMEO
– RoMEO interface
• Portuguese, Spanish & Hungarian
– RoMEO data
• German, Portuguese, Spanish & Hungarian
– Planned future interface translation
• German
– Translation wish list
• French, Japanese, Russian, etc.
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
Hungarian RoMEO
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
RoMEO data partners
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Blimunda Project, Portugal
DINI, Germany
HUNOR, University of Debrecen, Hungary
Norsk RoMEO, Norway
Nereus, Netherlands
RECOLECTA, Spain
McGill & Concordia Universities, Canada
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
RoMEO Publishers by Country
Number of RoMEO Publishers
[51 Others],
214
United States,
387
India, 22
France, 27
Australia, 27
Norway, 40
Canada, 44
Germany, 46
Portugal, 105
United
Kingdom, 166
Alternatives to RoMEO colours
RoMEO Colours by Journal
(2012-03-09)
13%
Green
50%
27%
Blue
Yellow
White
10%
Best version that can be archived
immediately with no embargo
13%
16%
Publisher's version
Accepted version
Submitted version
27%
No version
44%
Best version after embargo with no
further restrictions
9%
19%
11%
Publisher's version
Accepted version
Submitted version
No version
61%
Best version after embargo and
restrictions
1% 5%
23%
Publisher's version
Accepted version
Submitted version
No version
71%
Any Questions?
RoMEO:
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo
JULIET:
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet
OpenDOAR: http://www.opendoar.org/
Blog:
E-mail:
Twitter:
http://romeoblog.jiscinvolve.org/
[email protected]
@SHERPAServices
Peter Millington:
[email protected]
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/