Systematically gather citations by KU faculty and approach those faculty for permission to deposit on their behalf articles published in journals which permit archiving in institutional repositories like KU ScholarWorks RoMEO Green at the University of Kansas: An experiment to encourage interest, participation and momentum among faculty and jumpstart populating the KU ScholarWorks Repository Help faculty identify published articles suitable for posting in digital repositories such as KU ScholarWorks Work with faculty to request permission from publishers in cases where it is required Offer scanning, conversion to PDF Use contact with faculty as a method to converse about preservation, stewardship, copyright issues Use project findings to inform development of new faculty services 65 publishers representing 7779 journal titles 4022 articles authored by 529 current KU faculty Have requested 1062 articles from 165 faculty to date Submitted 32 articles to date into the following communities: o Anthropology o Applied Behavioral Sciences o Biological Sciences o Chemistry o Mechanical Engineering o Pharmaceutical Chemistry o Philosophy o Physics and Astronomy o Political Science o Sociology Faculty responses to RoMEO Green have generally been positive: o “I am happy to supply you with a pdf file of each of the articles below that you are requesting.” (Psychology Professor) o “I also have three other publications since I have been at KU (listed below). Do you want any of these[?]” (Biological Sciences Professor) o “Thank you so much for your interest in our published articles.” (Physics and Astronomy Research Associate) Assess the effectiveness of the project in meeting goals o cost effectiveness in time and dollars o analysis of faculty attitudes through survey Assessment is ongoing; project to end by December 2005 With the creation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge central to their mission, institutions of higher education must work to create systems that will provide affordable access to all relevant published scholarship across all disciplines for researchers, teachers, and the broader public. Scholarly journal articles should be treated as public goods. Since they represent both the findings of scholars and the building blocks for future discoveries, their widespread dissemination benefits society. The growth of knowledge will progress more rapidly as more scholars have access to those building blocks. David Shulenburger Provost, University of Kansas Add content to KU ScholarWorks Explore services to support faculty Create interest in and demand for KU ScholarWorks Assess project impact Method Used RoMEO self archiving by publisher titles list from Project RoMEO Used Green, Yellow and Blue publishers from Sherpa Project Thus, RoMEO Green. Also drew on work done at University of Glasgow Why RoMEO Green?

RoMEO Green at the University of Kansas: An experiment to encourage interest, participation and momentum among faculty and jumpstart populating the KU ScholarWorks Repository Method Ada Emmett Chemistry & Molecular Biosciences Librarian University of Kansas Holly Mercer Coordinator of Digital Content Development University of Kansas