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RoMEO Service & Developments
Peter Millington & Jane H SmithCentre for Research Communications
University of Nottingham
JISC Conference 2010
RoMEO: An online database of open access self-archiving rights.
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Why RoMEO?
• Constraints on access to scholarly publications– Subscribers only– Copyright controls on re-use – even by the author
• Which is bad because…– Limiting the extent of dissemination– Slowing the speed of dissemination– Cost issues– Sense of moral injustice
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Solutions
• Open access publication– In open access journals – DOAJ – http://www.doaj.org/– ‘Author pays’ open access in established journals
• Self-archiving by authors in open access repositories– Institutional repositories – e.g. Nottingham ePrints– Subject-based repositories – e.g. ArXiV, Pubmed Central
• Mandatory open access– By research funders as condition of grant– By institutions (REF implications)
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RoMEO – Behind the Scenes
• Each Publisher– Copyright Transfer Agreements/ Policies– Communication – Interpretation
• Journal information, courtesy of:– British Library Zetoc Database– DOAJ, Lund University– Entrez (Abbreviations)– NCBI (National Centre for
Biotechnology Information)
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RoMEO Featureshttp://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/search.php?id=25&fIDnum=|
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Who uses RoMEO, and what for?
• Research funding agencies– Checking publishers who comply with mandates– Recommending or black listing journals
• Academic authors– Checking that journals comply with mandates– Checking self-archiving rights prior to deposit
• Repository administrators & Librarians– Checking archiving rights when acting as agents
• Publishers & Societies– Checking best practice – what others do
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Demo Overview
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• Journal Search• Publisher Search• Browse Features• Research Funders’ Compliance• Special Pages
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Application Programmers’ Interface
• REST-ful queries– Same query options as for interactive RoMEO
• Returning XML output– Structured RoMEO data– German output option• Other languages to follow
• Local processing of RoMEO data– Notably language translation
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API Output for ISSN 0340-2398
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API Example Application
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Future Improvements
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Journal Level Rights - Variation
• Publishers’ policies may differ by journal– General policy insufficient
• Multiple or joint publishers– e.g. “Published by … on behalf of …”– If policies differ, whose take priority?
• Journal listed in two or more sources– Problems of equating name variations– Which do we trust?
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RoMEO’s Journal Level Plan
• Compiling our own journal database– Harvested directly from publishers’ websites– Our ‘most trusted’ journal-publisher look-up table
• Hierarchical list of all publishers– Statuses: parent, imprint, copyright holder, etc.– Rules and guidance on precedence– Warnings on assumptions
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Journal Level Rights - Prototype
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Journal Level Rights - Prototype
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Improving Standardisation
• Current phrases– Variations reflect publishers policies– Need for greater clarity– Obstacle for translation into other languages
• Planned improvements– Simpler clearer terminology– More structured data – pick lists, checkboxes, etc
• Potential for a Publishers Policy Tool
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Internationalisation
• Current non-English versions of RoMEO– Germany, Spain, France, Japan– Foreign language interface but data in English– Would like data in local languages
• Two-way partnership– Sharing data on local publishers– Handling translations to and from English
• Other potential partners in the pipeline– Australia, Norway, Portugal, France.
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Any Questions?RoMEO: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo API: http://www/sherpa/ac/uk/romeo/api
Blog: http://romeoblog.jiscinvolve.orgE-mail: [email protected] Twitter: @SHERPAServices
Jane H Smith: 0115 95 14341Peter Millington: 0115 84 68481