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

Birkbeck Birmingham Bristol British Library Cambridge Durham Edinburgh

Glasgow Imperial Leeds LSE Kings College Newcastle Nottingham

Oxford Royal Holloway Sheffield SOAS UCL York AHDS

Achievements

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

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 self-archiving

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

66% of publis

hers allow self a

rchiving

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