New SHERPA/RoMEO Features

SHERPA runs RoMEO as a service to academic authors and repository managers around the world to summarise publishers’ policies and copyright transfer agreements relating to open access archiving.
SHERPA is pleased to announce that it has added three new features to its RoMEO service.  The RoMEO homepage now includes a ‘News’ section, which has been added [...]

Edinburgh Repository Fringe

http://www.repositoryfringe.org/
Those interested in the likely future development of repositories will be interested in the streamed video presentations of the event which are now available at:
www.repositoryfringe.org.
Many of the Powerpoint presentations are also available from the site.
Repository Fringe 2008 was held on the 31st of August and the 1st of September, funded by JISC and hosted by [...]

Publisher version/PDF use in Institutional Repositories

SHERPA runs RoMEO as a service to academic authors and repository managers around the world to summarise publishers’ contracts relating to open access archiving.
There is often a question about the use of the publishers own PDF version of research articles and whether these can be archived.  It is often believed that all publishers prohibit the [...]

Ireland’s Higher Education Authority Mandates Green OA Self-Archiving

‘Following a very supportive public consultation process’ earlier this year (
http://www.hea.ie/en/node/1154), the HEA mandate came into effect on June 30th
2008. It covers all research funded by the HEA (in whole or in part) which
includes the Programme for Research in Third-Level Institutions ( PRTLI) and
the Programme of Strategic Cooperation between Irish [...]

The new RSP blog directory

The JISC funded Repositories Support Project has today launched a new service – The RSP Blog Directory (http://rsp.ac.uk/blogs/). It provides a list of recommended and informative blogs regarding the repository scene from around the globe. Listed blogs include personal creations from those with first hand experience of repository management and/or technical development of repository software; [...]

OpenDOAR Maps Announcement

SHERPA is pleased to announce the addition of a Google Maps extension to OpenDOAR, its directory of open access repositories (http://www.opendoar.org/find). Just run any search of the directory, and then change the output format from “Summaries” to “Google Map”.

Here are a few examples:

1.  http://www.opendoar.org/find?format=gmap&cID=jp
- Repositories in Japan

2.  http://www.opendoar.org/find?format=gmap&lID=sp
- Repositories with [...]

School of Oriental and African Studies Research Online

https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/

Welcome to SOAS Research Online
A free, publicly accessible repository of the research outputs of the School of Oriental and African Studies. The full text of these materials will be made available where possible.

Document Deposit Policy and Procedures for APA Journals

http://www.apa.org/journals/authors/pubmed-deposit.html
A new document deposit policy of the American Psychological Association (APA) requiring a publication fee to deposit manuscripts in PubMed Central based on research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is currently being re-examined and will not be implemented at this time. This policy had recently been announced on [...]

The Names Project

http://names.mimas.ac.uk/
The project is going to scope the requirements of UK institutional and subject repositories for a service that will reliably and uniquely identify individuals and institutions.
It will then go on to develop a prototype service which will test the various processes involved. This will include determining the data format, setting up an [...]

SPARC Europe and DRIVER have signed a Memorandum of Agreement to collaborate on promoting digital repositories in Europe

http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind0807&L=jisc-repositories&T=0&F=&S=&P=1045
Attached please find the press release on the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement between DRIVER and SPARC Europe, concluded during the LIBER 37th Annual Conference in Istanbul last week.