1. SHERPAs work on Institutional Repositories Bill Hubbard SHERPA Project Manager University of Nottingham

2. SHERPA Project Partner Institutions –Nottingham, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Durham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Newcastle, Oxford, Sheffield, York, University of London - Birkbeck, Imperial, Kings, LSE, Royal Holloway, SOAS, UCL –British Library, AHDS Funding from JISC and CURL Nov 02 - Oct 05

3. SHERPA aims and outcomes Establish institutionally-based eprint repositories Advice - setting up, IPR, deposit, preservation Advocacy - awareness, promotion, change

4. Eprint archiving Increased dissemination, access, impact Cultural barriers to adoption Authors are willing to use repositories Requiring deposition is key

5. Copyright Many publishers - most journals - are Green SHERPA/RoMEO list gives summaries Need clarity and consistency Copyright retention

6. Repository basis Institutional repositories combined with national or subject-based search services Practical reasons –use institutional infrastructure –integration into work-flows and systems –support is close to academic users and contributors OAI-PMH allows a single gateway to search and access many repositories –subject-based portals or views

7. Setting up institutional repositories Technically straightforward Low cost Advocacy & population addressed in-house Many institutional repositories are already in place

8. Supporting eprint repositories Deposition as a condition of grant Copyright retention by authors Institutional repositories with subject-based search services

9. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk bill.hubbard@nottingham.ac.uk