Transcript RoMEO, JULIET and OpenDOAR: A Tale with a Happy Ending! Slides courtesy of the SHERPA Team http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/

RoMEO, JULIET and OpenDOAR: A
Tale with a Happy Ending!
Slides courtesy of the SHERPA Team
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/
Overview
• SHERPA/RoMEO
– Database of publishers’ copyright policies
• JULIET
– Database of funders’ open access policies
• OpenDOAR
– Directory of Open Access Repositories
• SHERPA is a project from the University of Nottingham,
UK, which aims to:
– Set up & expand the UK repository network
– Promote usage of OA repositories
– Databases & tools to support administrators
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/
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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
• ~66% of publishers allow some form of self-archiving.
• 90 - 95% of journals
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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
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Funders and Open Access
• Open Access to research
– Benefits for funders and researchers
– Opens new readers and uses
– Assists information management
• Funders have recognised:
– the benefits of OA for their work
– their position allows them to gain those
benefits by working with researchers
– released policies which need action
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/
JULIET
• JULIET lists funding bodies policies on
open access through archiving, publication
and data exposure
A companion to RoMEO . . .
• JULIET tells you what funders require you
to do with your research . . .
• RoMEO tells you which journals will let
you do it.
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/
JULIET
• http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/
• Open access policies for 37 research funders
• Policies and Notes on Publications Archiving
• Policies and Notes on Open Access Journals
• Policies and Notes on Open Access Data
Archiving
• Conditions & web links
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/
JULIET
• Publications Archiving policies summarises
– 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
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/
JULIET – Example Full Record
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/
JULIET - Summary Screen
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/
OpenDOAR
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http://www.opendoar.org/
Directory of Open Access Repositories
Lists over 1250 repositories worldwide
Sites visited, quality-checked & analysed
– Open access, full texts, functioning
• Excludes:
– Gated access, metadata-only, broken, Open
Access Journals
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/
Repositories by Continent
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 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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Using SHERPA’s Tools
• The SHERPA site provides a rich set of tools to
manage repositories
• Use OpenDOAR to set good policies for your
new repositories
• Use JULIET to check if your authors are
required to deposit
• Use RoMEO to check that authors are allowed
to deposit their papers
– Remember – the majority of journals
allow deposit – copyright concerns are
not a barrier to open access!
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Thanks to the SHERPA Team
Especially:
• Bill Hubbard, SHERPA Manager,
• Peter Millington, Technical Development Officer
• Jane Smith, Services Development Officer
for the slides
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