Transcript The library as a virtual research environment

SHERPA
Jackie Wickham
RSP Project Coordinator
Centre for Research Communications
University of Nottingham
Background
 Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research
Preservation and Access (SHERPA Project)
 Original project 2003-Jan 2006 - funded by JISC and
CURL
 SHERPA Plus
 OpenDOAR
 RoMEO and JULIET
 Repositories Support Project
SHERPA aims
 Establish institutionally-based eprint repositories
 7 Partners plus 7 Associate Partners
– actually 21 partner institutions, plus affiliates
 Experience
– in consortia, maintenance, population
 Advice
– technical, organisational, IPR, preservation
 Advocacy
– strategies, events, materials
SHERPA partners & repositories
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Birkbeck
Birmingham
Bristol
British Library
Cambridge
Durham
Edinburgh
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Glasgow
Imperial
Leeds
LSE
Kings College
Newcastle
Nottingham
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Oxford
Royal Holloway
Sheffield
SOAS
UCL
York
AHDS
Achievements
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Network of OAI-PMH compliant repositories
Populated with research outputs and metadata
Body of knowledge and understanding accumulated
Advocacy strategies developed
Better understanding of copyright law – and its
complexity!
 Understanding of authors’ conceptions and
misconceptions
 Gained a respected profile in international OA
movement
SHERPA Project Evaluation, 2005, CERLIM
SHERPA Plus
 2 year project to July 2007, for national support
 advocacy strategies and material for the further
population of existing repositories
 resources, information and advice for all institutions
wanting to establish repositories
 support for repository-level, institutional and national
policy development
 review and analysis of extending repository holdings
with datasets, multimedia, grey literature, learning
objects and other content types
OpenDOAR
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18 month project to August 2006
survey of Open Access Repositories
registry of Open Access Repositories
for third party service providers . . .
for end users . . .
Still here!
Copyright and self-archiving
 RoMEO http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
 Contains publishers' general policies on selfarchiving of journal articles and certain conference
series
 Each entry provides a summary of the publisher's
policy, including what version of an article can be
deposited, where it can be deposited, and any
conditions that are attached to that deposit
RoMEO functions
 Interpretation and clarification of publisher policies
 Dialogue with stakeholders, particularly publishers
and funders
 ‘Honest broker’ role
 Human and machine-readable interfaces
JULIET
 List of funder OA
requirements
 Links to policies
 Sorting under
various headings
Funders
Centre for Research
Communications
 Founded in April 2009 as a University research
centre
 SHERPA services – RoMEO, JULIET, OpenDOAR
 Includes projects – DRIVER, OpenAIRE,
NECOBELAC
 ..and RSP