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RoMEO, JULIET & OpenDOAR
Services that can enhance your repository
JISC Repositories & Preservation Programme
Meeting, Bristol, 28th November 2007
Peter Millington
SHERPA Technical Development Officer
University of Nottingham
[email protected]
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/
Overview
• What is SHERPA?
• SHERPA/RoMEO
– Database of publishers’ copyright policies
• JULIET
– Database of funders’ open access policies
• OpenDOAR
– Directory of Open Access Repositories
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/
What is SHERPA?
• http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/
• Acronym
Securing a
Hybrid
Environment for
Research
Preservation and
Access
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/
What is SHERPA?
• University of Nottingham - 6 staff
• Aims
– Set up & expand the UK repository network
– Promote usage of OA repositories
– Databases & tools to support administrators
• Non-aims
– OA journals – see DOAJ
• Current & Allied Projects
– RSP, DRIVER, Intute RS , Depot, UKCoRR
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/
SHERPA/RoMEO
• http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php
• Database of publishers’ copyright policies
– Self-archiving by authors - pre-prints & post-prints
– Paid Open Access options
– Compliance with research funders’ mandates
• Purpose
– To help determine archiving rights
• Sources
– Publishers’ information & correspondence
– Users’ suggestions
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/
Growth of SHERPA/RoMEO
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SHERPA/RoMEO Sample Record
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/
SHERPA/RoMEO Fields
• Publisher’s name – linked to home page
• Archiving permissions
– For Pre-prints and Post-prints
– Any restrictions – that may prevent archiving
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Conditions – which don’t prevent archiving
Compliance with funders’ OA mandates
Paid Open Access options
Links to publishers’ policy web pages
RoMEO colour
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SHERPA/RoMEO Colours
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/
Archiving Permissions by Publisher
• ~70% of publishers allow some form of self-archiving.
• 90 - 95% of journals
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/
RoMEO Redevelopment Ideas
• Additional publisher fields
– e.g. Policy re publisher’s PDF
• Better handling of journals
– e.g. Extra lookup tables, Abbreviations, etc.
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Multilingual data & interfaces
Franchise operation
Application Programmers’ Interface (API)
Improved reliability
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/
JULIET
• http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/
• Open access policies for 28 research funders
• Policies
– Whether to archive
• Requiring open access deposition
– What to archive
• Author’s final version or publisher’s PDF
– When to archive
• When accepted for publication? Embargoes
– Where to archive
• Conditions & web links
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JULIET – Example Full Record
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/
OpenDOAR
• http://www.opendoar.org/
• Directory of Open Access Repositories
• Lists over 1000 repositories worldwide
– 112 for the UK (Nov.2007)
• Sites visited, quality-checked & analysed
– Open access, full texts, functioning
• Excludes:
– Gated access, metadata-only, broken, OAJs
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/
Repositories by Continent
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/
European Repositories
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/
OpenDOAR Facilities
• Country-based List
– http://www.opendoar.org/countrylist.php
• Find Repositories
– http://www.opendoar.org/find.php
• Search Repository Contents
– http://www.opendoar.org/search.php
• Tools for Repository Administrators
– http://www.opendoar.org/tools/
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OpenDOAR Tools
• OpenDOAR Charts
– Include OpenDOAR charts in your website
• Application Programmers' Interface (API)
– Get OD data as XML for your applications
– Display data or use to control harvesting
• Email Distribution Service
– Appropriate messages to administrators
• Policies Tool
– Define & display your repository’s policies
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/
OpenDOAR Policies Tool
• Background
– 75% of repositories lack visible policies
– Need for clarity and guidance on good practice
• What Policies?
– Re-use of data, Content, Submission & Preservation
• The Tool
– Radio buttons, checkboxes, pick lists, pop-up boxes
• Recommendations
– From minimum OA compliance to best practice
• Output Options
– Plain text, HTML source code, etc
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SHERPA’s Future Plans
• Continuing growth of the databases
– OpenDOAR, SHERPA/RoMEO & JULIET
• Network of national/language franchises
– To gather local data & create special versions
• Enhance JULIET
– Add policies for archiving source data
• Redevelopment of SHERPA/RoMEO
– Subject to funding
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Any questions?
Peter Millington
[email protected]
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/
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