SHERPA/RoMEO

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SHERPA/RoMEO

Project information

Lead site: University of Nottingham

Partners: 


Contact: Bill Hubbard (Project Manager)

Further information: [SHERPA/RoMEO JISC project page] and SHERPA/RoMEO homepage

Cluster(s): See categories at the bottom of this page and Cluster pages.

Repositories Research team contact: JulieAllinson

Project summary

The RoMEO Project (Rights MEtadata for Open archiving) was a JISC funded project (2002/3) at the University of Loughborough to investigate the rights issues surrounding the self-archiving of research in the UK community under the Open Archive Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Through surveying the academic community it ascertained how give-away research literature and metadata was used and how it should be protected.

After negotiation with the RoMEO Project team and JISC, SHERPA developed the outcomes of this project into a database-driven searchable service and knowledge bank of information. SHERPA maintains the SHERPA/RoMEO listing, which details the rights given to authors by the major publishers of academic journals. It is now possible to search for many publishers and out find what permissions are normally given as part of each's copyright transfer agreement.

The majority of publishers support the right of academic authors to mount their own work online: however, some prohibit authors from using their work in this way as a condition of their copyright transfer agreement which they ask the author to sign.

Aims

SHERPA/RoMEO aims to:

-Provide and maintain a Web accessible database that records a selection of publisher's copyright transfer agreements.

-Categorise the agreements according to the permissions given by the publishers for authors to self-archive material.

-Represent this information in a queryable format giving guidance on a specific publisher’s archivng policies.

-Uses different colours to highlight publisher's archiving policies differentiating between four categories of archiving rights.

-Continue to extend the dataset upon which it is based through updates and appropriate suggestions from the user community.

Dissemination

See Articles and papers for articles, papers and news coverage of SHERPA/RoMEO.

Project outputs and deliverables

See Deliverables for details of deliverables and outputs from SHERPA/RoMEO.

Progress reports