Award winning SHERPA is investigating issues in the future of scholarly communication. It is developing open-access institutional repositories in universities to facilitate the rapid and efficient worldwide dissemination of research.

SHERPA Services

• RoMEO - Publisher's copyright & archiving policies
• JULIET - Research funders archiving mandates and guidelines
• OpenDOAR worldwide Directory of Open Access Repositories
• SHERPA Search - simple full-text search of UK repositories

SHERPA Resources

• Forthcoming Events - including speaking engagements
• Guidance on depositing material; copyright; and open access for authors
• Advocacy Materials for administrators, including past SHERPA presentations
• Links to other initiatives and related background information

Current SHERPA & Allied Projects

• RSP (Repositories Support Project) - support service for UK repository growth
• DRIVER - developing a cross-European repository network infrastructure
• UKCoRR - United Kingdom Council of Research Repositories
• Intute: Repository Search - searches across 90 UK academic repositories
• The Depot a keep-safe repository for UK academics
• SHERPA DP 2 - continuing to look at preservation models
• SHERPA/RoMEO - listing publishers' copyright agreements

Completed SHERPA & Allied Projects

• SHERPA Project - which helped develop archives in research-led institutions
• SHERPA Plus - expanding the repository network in the UK
• SHERPA DP - looking at preservation models
• PROSPERO - scoping The Depot keep-safe service
• EThOS - developing a national eTheses service
• Copyright Knowledge Bank - copyright investigation

SHERPA: Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access

News

Zetoc Downtime to affect RoMEO

RoMEO reaches 500 publishers

Selected research funders' grant expenditure

JORUM event in December

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Jobs

Subject Librarian, Centre for Broadcast History, The Media School, Bournemouth University

SHERPA-LEAP Project Officer, UCL Library Services

Funders

We gratefully acknowledge the generous support given to SHERPA projects by our funders

SHERPA is hosted by the University of Nottingham