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Sherpa/Romeo Aditya Tripathi, Ph.D. Department of Library & Information Science Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi [email protected] A SHERP ● A consortium with 34 members ● Stands for Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access ● Addresses the issues of scholarly communication globally through Open Access movement ● Advocates establishing Institutional repositories ● Hosted and lead by Centre for Research Communications (CRC) at the University of Nottingham A detailed account is available: https://www.sherpa.ac.uk/about.html?service-identifier=sherpa 2 20/04/20 SHERPA: services RoMEO JULIET Publisher's copyright & archiving policies Research funders archiving mandates and OpenDOAR guidelines Worldwide Directory of Open Access SHERPA Search Repositories Simple full-text search of UK repositories 3 20/04/20 del O: mo RoME Publisher's policies regarding the self- archiving of journal RoMEO searchable articles on the Web and (Database of journals) in Open Access repositories 4 20/04/20 d o: nee RoMe ● Enabling authors to know about the publishing policies of journal ● Enabling authors to choose best suited journal for his/her research for a wider visibility and citations evidences show that citations to articles made openly accessible attracts more citations ● Some funding agencies require open access archiving of research publications they funded 5 20/04/20 RoMEO database contains ● Name of journal ● Name of publisher ● Publication policies ● Color code as per the publication policy 6 20/04/20 RoMEO: an entry 7 20/04/20 Coverage ● Covers over 22,000 journals ● Peer-reviewed journals and serials ● Journal titles are gathered from publishers' websites and supplemented with by feeds from the British Library's Zetoc service, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and Entrez ● Also searches the Zetoc, DOAJ, and Entrez databases for additional journals 8 20/04/20 Coverage ● 2562 publishers “ http://sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/statistics.php ” 9 20/04/20 Publishers’ Policy ● Provides summaries of publisher's copyright transfer agreements, open access policies, and other publisher documents that are available online ● Standardises these policies using SHERPA terms for ease of comparison between publishers 10 20/04/20 The Color codes ROMEO colour Archiving policy green can archive pre-print and post-print or publisher's version/PDF blue can archive post-print (ie final draft post-refereeing) or publisher's version/PDF yellow can archive pre-print (ie pre-refereeing) white archiving not formally supported Soucce: http://sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/definitions.php?la=en&fIDnum=|&mode=simple&version=#colours 11 20/04/20 Pre-print and Post-print ● Pre-prints: the version of the paper before peer review ● Post-prints: the version of the paper after peer-review, with revisions having been made 12 20/04/20 Pre-print Post-print 13 20/04/20 Mandated Open Access ● The research paper should follow the policy “ guidelines laid by the funding agency ● Funding agency insists that the copy of the paper is to be published in Open Access Repository ” 14 20/04/20 Paid Open Access ● Publishers allow free to view (open access) after the payment of a substantial additional “ fee ” 15 20/04/20 Search Goto search 16 20/04/20 An Entry 17 20/04/20 Searching Goto search 18 20/04/20 RoMEO and JULIET ● Database for Open Access policies of funding agencies ● RoMEO uses JULIET to provide simple data on journals' compliance with funders' open access policies 19 20/04/20 Juliet Search Goto Juliet 20 20/04/20 RoMEO and FACT ● There is a service called SHERPA/FACT (Funders and Authors Compliance Tools) ● The tools helps the authors to understand the complaince of their funding agency and the journal choose for publication ● RoMEO feeds FACT with information on journals' policies on self-archiving 21 20/04/20 SHERPA/FACT Goto SHERPA/FACT Service 22 20/04/20 OpenDOAR ● Global Directory of Open Access Repositories ● List repositories that provide free, open access to academic outputs and resources ● Supports in framing the Policy statement for Repositories – Minimal Policy and Optimal Policy ● Provides multiple statistics about the global repositories registered in OpenDOAR 23 20/04/20 OpenDOAR: Search 24 20/04/20 Goto search Resources ● Sherpa. https://www.sherpa.ac.uk/ ● RoMEO. https: www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/index.php ● JULIET. https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/ ● OpenDOAR. https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/opendoar/ 25 20/04/20 .