1. SHERPA Jackie Wickham RSP Project Coordinator
Centre for Research Communications
University of Nottingham
Bill Hubbard, SHERPA July 2005
JISC DigiRep Programme Meeting

2. Background
Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access (SHERPA Project)
Original project 2003-Jan funded by JISC and CURL
SHERPA Plus
OpenDOAR
RoMEO and JULIET
Repositories Support Project

3. SHERPA aims Establish institutionally-based eprint repositories
7 Partners plus 7 Associate Partners
actually 21 partner institutions, plus affiliates
Experience
in consortia, maintenance, population
Advice
technical, organisational, IPR, preservation
Advocacy
strategies, events, materials
Bill Hubbard, SHERPA July 2005
JISC DigiRep Programme Meeting

4. SHERPA partners & repositories
Birkbeck
Birmingham
Bristol
British Library
Cambridge
Durham
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Imperial
Leeds
LSE
Kings College
Newcastle
Nottingham
Oxford
Royal Holloway
Sheffield
SOAS
UCL
York
AHDS
Bill Hubbard, SHERPA July 2005
JISC DigiRep Programme Meeting

5. Achievements Network of OAI-PMH compliant repositories
Populated with research outputs and metadata
Body of knowledge and understanding accumulated
Advocacy strategies developed
Better understanding of copyright law – and its complexity!
Understanding of authors’ conceptions and misconceptions
Gained a respected profile in international OA movement
SHERPA Project Evaluation, 2005, CERLIM

7. SHERPA Plus 2 year project to July 2007, for national support
advocacy strategies and material for the further population of existing repositories
resources, information and advice for all institutions wanting to establish repositories
support for repository-level, institutional and national policy development
review and analysis of extending repository holdings with datasets, multimedia, grey literature, learning objects and other content types
Bill Hubbard, SHERPA July 2005
JISC DigiRep Programme Meeting

8. OpenDOAR 18 month project to August 2006
survey of Open Access Repositories
registry of Open Access Repositories
for third party service providers . . .
for end users . . .
Still here!
Bill Hubbard, SHERPA July 2005
JISC DigiRep Programme Meeting

10. Copyright and self-archiving
RoMEO
Contains publishers' general policies on self-archiving of journal articles and certain conference series
Each entry provides a summary of the publisher's policy, including what version of an article can be deposited, where it can be deposited, and any conditions that are attached to that deposit

11. RoMEO functions Interpretation and clarification of publisher policies
Dialogue with stakeholders, particularly publishers and funders
‘Honest broker’ role
Human and machine-readable interfaces

13. 66% of publishers allow self archiving

14. JULIET List of funder OA requirements Links to policies
Sorting under various headings

17. Funders

18. Centre for Research Communications
Founded in April 2009 as a University research centre
SHERPA services – RoMEO, JULIET, OpenDOAR
Includes projects – DRIVER, OpenAIRE, NECOBELAC
..and RSP