USING SHERPA SERVICES Bournemouth University 26 th October 2011 Making Your Research Open Access: Willow Fuchs Centre for Research Communications University of Nottingham
Outline RoMEO What is RoMEO? Brief history Characteristics Key features Demo JULIET What is JULIET? Key features Demo OpenDOAR What is OpenDOAR? Key features Demo
The “gold route” Publish articles in an open-access journal or Publish in a “hybrid” journal that offers an open- access publishing option alongside traditional methods
OA repositories: the “green” route Institutional, subject-based, or national repositories Bournemouth University Research Online (BURO) arXiv, UKPMC HAL (Hyper Article on Line) Authors deposit pre-print, post-print, or publisher’s pdf As well as, not instead of, traditional journal publishing
Will academics deposit in a repository? 1. Yes, if technically simple 2. Yes, if they and their immediate environment gain from it 3. Yes, if it causes no legal problems 4. Yes, if their funder requires it Source: Kurt Mehlhorn, Berlin 8 RoMEO and JULIET address 3 and 4
RoMEO then
RoMEO now
RoMEO characteristics Interpretation and clarification of publisher policies Dialogue with stakeholders, particularly publishers and funders ‘Honest broker’ role Human and machine-readable interfaces
Features Growing Database Publishers (Sept 2011) Colours (4 colours April 2004) Publisher search (April 2004) Journal search (Nov 2005) Web interface and API (April 2006) Funder compliance indicators (Nov 2006) Use of publisher PDF’s (Aug 2008) Paid-for OA options (Sep 2008) Major Upgrade - expanded features (Oct 2009) Upgrade - improved journal coverage (Aug 2011)
Growing database – 1029 publishers
Features Growing Database Publishers (Sept 2011) Colours (4 colours April 2004) Publisher search (April 2004) Journal search (Nov 2005) Web interface and API (April 2006) Funder compliance indicators (Nov 2006) Use of publisher PDF’s (Aug 2008) Paid-for OA options (Sep 2008) Major Upgrade - expanded features (Oct 2009) Upgrade - improved journal coverage (Aug 2011)
RoMEO Colours RoMEO ColourArchiving PolicyPublishers% Green Can archive pre-print and post print Blue Can archive post-print (i.e. final draft post refereeing) Yellow Can archive pre-print (i.e. pre refereeing) 848 White Archiving not formally supported 37036
RoMEO Colours
Features Growing Database Publishers (Sept 2011) Colours (4 colours April 2004) Publisher search (April 2004) Journal search (Nov 2005) Web interface and API (April 2006) Funder compliance indicators (Nov 2006) Use of publisher PDF’s (Aug 2008) Paid-for OA options (Sep 2008) Major Upgrade - expanded features (Oct 2009) Upgrade - improved journal coverage (Aug 2011)
Publisher Search Publisher data 1029 publishers Locally recorded and maintained
Features Growing Database Publishers (Sept 2011) Colours (4 colours April 2004) Publisher search (April 2004) Journal search (Nov 2005) Web interface and API (April 2006) Funder compliance indicators (Nov 2006) Use of publisher PDF’s (Aug 2008) Paid-for OA options (Sep 2008) Major Upgrade - expanded features (Oct 2009) Upgrade - improved journal coverage (Aug 2011)
Journal Search Journal data ZETOC, British Library DOAJ, Lund University Entrez (journal title abbreviations), NCBI Local ‘exceptions’ database
Features Growing Database Publishers (Sept 2011) Colours (4 colours April 2004) Publisher search (April 2004) Journal search (Nov 2005) Web interface and API (April 2006) Funder compliance indicators (Nov 2006) Use of publisher PDF’s (Aug 2008) Paid-for OA options (Sep 2008) Major Upgrade - expanded features (Oct 2009) Upgrade - improved journal coverage (Aug 2011)
Features Growing Database Publishers (Sept 2011) Colours (4 colours April 2004) Publisher search (April 2004) Journal search (Nov 2005) Web interface and API (April 2006) Funder compliance indicators (Nov 2006) Use of publisher PDF’s (Aug 2008) Paid-for OA options (Sep 2008) Major Upgrade - expanded features (Oct 2009) Upgrade - improved journal coverage (Aug 2011)
Funder compliance indicators
Features Growing Database Publishers (Sept 2011) Colours (4 colours April 2004) Publisher search (April 2004) Journal search (Nov 2005) Web interface and API (April 2006) Funder compliance indicators (Nov 2006) Use of publisher PDF’s (Aug 2008) Paid-for OA options (Sep 2008) Major Upgrade - expanded features (Oct 2009) Upgrade - improved journal coverage (Aug 2011)
Use of Publishers’ PDFs
Features Growing Database Publishers (Sept 2011) Colours (4 colours April 2004) Publisher search (April 2004) Journal search (Nov 2005) Web interface and API (April 2006) Funder compliance indicators (Nov 2006) Use of publisher PDF’s (Aug 2008) Paid-for OA options (Sep 2008) Major Upgrade - expanded features (Oct 2009) Upgrade - improved journal coverage (Aug 2011)
Features Growing Database Publishers (Sept 2011) Colours (4 colours April 2004) Publisher search (April 2004) Journal search (Nov 2005) Web interface and API (April 2006) Funder compliance indicators (Nov 2006) Use of publisher PDF’s (Aug 2008) Paid-for OA options (Sep 2008) Major Upgrade - expanded features (Oct 2009) Upgrade - improved journal coverage (Aug 2011)
RoMEO DEMO /
JULIET List of funder OA requirements Links to policies Sorting under various headings Launched in June 2006 Potential for expansion /
OpenDOAR Directory of Open Access Repositories About 1800 repositories listed List repositories Search repositories Search repository content
Questions? Willow Fuchs - Open Access Adviser Centre for Research Communications