1. RoMEO Service & Developments Peter Millington & Jane H Smith Centre for Research Communications University of Nottingham JISC Conference 2010 RoMEO: An online database of open access self-archiving rights.

2. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ Why RoMEO? Constraints on access to scholarly publications – Subscribers only – Copyright controls on re-use – even by the author Which is bad because… – Limiting the extent of dissemination – Slowing the speed of dissemination – Cost issues – Sense of moral injustice

3. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ Solutions Open access publication – In open access journals – DOAJ – http://www.doaj.org/http://www.doaj.org/ – Author pays open access in established journals Self-archiving by authors in open access repositories – Institutional repositories – e.g. Nottingham ePrints – Subject-based repositories – e.g. ArXiV, Pubmed Central Mandatory open access – By research funders as condition of grant – By institutions (REF implications)

4. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ RoMEO – Behind the Scenes Each Publisher – Copyright Transfer Agreements/ Policies – Communication – Interpretation Journal information, courtesy of: – British Library Zetoc Database – DOAJ, Lund University – Entrez (Abbreviations)– NCBI (National Centre for Biotechnology Information)

5. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ RoMEO Features http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/search.php?id=25&fIDnum=|

6. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/

7. Who uses RoMEO, and what for? Research funding agencies – Checking publishers who comply with mandates – Recommending or black listing journals Academic authors – Checking that journals comply with mandates – Checking self-archiving rights prior to deposit Repository administrators & Librarians – Checking archiving rights when acting as agents Publishers & Societies – Checking best practice – what others do

8. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ Demo Overview http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo Journal Search Publisher Search Browse Features Research Funders Compliance Special Pages

9. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/

13. Application Programmers Interface REST-ful queries – Same query options as for interactive RoMEO Returning XML output – Structured RoMEO data – German output option Other languages to follow Local processing of RoMEO data – Notably language translation

14. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ API Output for ISSN 0340-2398

15. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ API Example Application

16. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ Future Improvements

17. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ Journal Level Rights - Variation Publishers policies may differ by journal – General policy insufficient Multiple or joint publishers – e.g. Published by … on behalf of … – If policies differ, whose take priority? Journal listed in two or more sources – Problems of equating name variations – Which do we trust?

18. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ RoMEOs Journal Level Plan Compiling our own journal database – Harvested directly from publishers websites – Our most trusted journal-publisher look-up table Hierarchical list of all publishers – Statuses: parent, imprint, copyright holder, etc. – Rules and guidance on precedence – Warnings on assumptions

19. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ Journal Level Rights - Prototype

20. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ Journal Level Rights - Prototype

21. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ Improving Standardisation Current phrases – Variations reflect publishers policies – Need for greater clarity – Obstacle for translation into other languages Planned improvements – Simpler clearer terminology – More structured data – pick lists, checkboxes, etc Potential for a Publishers Policy Tool

22. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ Internationalisation Current non-English versions of RoMEO – Germany, Spain, France, Japan – Foreign language interface but data in English – Would like data in local languages Two-way partnership – Sharing data on local publishers – Handling translations to and from English Other potential partners in the pipeline – Australia, Norway, Portugal, France.

23. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/

24. Any Questions? RoMEO:http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeohttp://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo API:http://www/sherpa/ac/uk/romeo/apihttp://www/sherpa/ac/uk/romeo/api Blog:http://romeoblog.jiscinvolve.orghttp://romeoblog.jiscinvolve.org E-mail:romeo@sherpa.ac.ukromeo@sherpa.ac.uk Twitter:@SHERPAServices Jane H Smith:0115 95 14341 Peter Millington:0115 84 68481