[BOAI] Major RoMEO Upgrade Released

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from SHEPA.  --Peter Suber.]


Release: 22 October 2009

A major upgrade to RoMEO has been released today, giving:

* Extra Category for the self-archiving of the Publisher's Version/ PDF
* Expanded Journal Coverage
* Extra Search Options for Journal Abbreviations and Electronic ISSNs
* New Tabular Browse View for Publishers
* Selective Display of Publishers' Compliance with Funding Agencys' Mandates

What's New?

As part of ongoing improvements to the RoMEO service, the Centre for 
Research Communications is excited to announce significant upgrades and 
additions to the SHERPA service RoMEO.

Previous versions of RoMEO have concentrated on highlighting information on 
the use of the pre-print and post-print.  There has been great support from 
the community for also providing clearly labelled information on the use of 
the publisher's version/PDF as a separate item. This feature has now been 
included and sits alongside information on self-archiving rights for 
Pre-prints and Authors' Post-prints. The information is available in both 
individual publisher entries and in the new Tabular Browse View.

RoMEO now provides expanded journal coverage, enabling users to draw from 
both the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and the Entrez journal 
list for the Life Sciences, along with the existing resource of the British 
Library's Zetoc service.

In addition to searching for journals by Print ISSN, users are now able to 
search by Electronic ISSN. They can also search for journals using title 
abbreviations.

The new Tabular Browse View enables users to display comparative charts of 
publishers, to quickly determine and compare what different Publishers 
allow them to deposit, and if the Publisher has a Paid OA Option.

If you or your authors receive funding from any of the 50 plus agencies 
listed in JULIET, you will now be able to restrict your search results to 
display Publishers' compliance with any of the funding agencies' policies 
listed in JULIET.

Why is RoMEO important?

If an academic author wants to put their research articles on-line, they 
are faced with an increasingly complex situation. Evidence shows that 
citations to articles made openly accessible in this way are taken up and 
cited more often than research that is simply published in journals. Also 
some Funding Agencies require open access archiving for their research, to 
increase the use of the information generated.

However, some publishers prohibit authors from using their own articles in 
this way. Others allow it, but only under certain conditions, while others 
are quite happy for authors to show their work in this way.

Authors can be left confused: RoMEO helps to clarify the situation.

What does RoMEO give users?

The RoMEO service, provided by the award winning* SHERPA team at the Centre 
for Research Communications, uses a simple colour-code to classify policies 
and inform authors of what can be done with their articles, and offers 
users the ability to:

* View summaries of publishers' copyright policies in relation to 
self-archiving
* View if publisher policies comply with funding regulations, as some 
publishers are too restrictive in their contracts and cannot be used to 
publish particular funded research
* To search journal and publisher information by Journal Title, Publisher 
Name and ISSN

Additionally RoMEO provides lists of

* Identify publishers that allow the use of their PDFs in Institutional 
Repositories
* Identify publisher with Paid OA Options

RoMEO is seen as an essential resource by many in the Open Access 
community. RoMEO is currently funded by JISC. Journal information is kindly 
provided by the British Library's Zetoc service hosted by MIMAS; DOAJ, a 
service from Lund University Libraries, and Entrez hosted by NCBI.

Future Work

The Centre for Research Communications is continuing to improve the 
facilities provided by RoMEO and is always interested in community feedback.

Contact
romeo at sherpa.ac.uk

* SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly 
Communication 2007.

RoMEO - www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo
Zetoc - www.zetoc.ac.uk
Entrez - www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/citmatch_help.html#JournalLists
DOAJ - www.doaj.org
JULIET - www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet

Jane H Smith B.Sc (Hons) M.Sc MCLIP
SHERPA Services Development Officer

SHERPA - www.sherpa.ac.uk
SHERPA/RoMEO - www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php
OpenDOAR - www.opendoar.org
Juliet - www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet
Nottingham E-Prints - http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/

Centre for Research Communications
Greenfield Medical Library
University of Nottingham,
Queens Medical Centre
Nottingham
NG7 2UH

Phone: 0115 951 4341
Fax: 0115 823 0549

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