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<font size=3>[Forwarding from SHEPA. --Peter Suber.]<br><br>
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Release: 22 October 2009<br><br>
A major upgrade to RoMEO has been released today, giving:<br><br>
* Extra Category for the self-archiving of the Publisher's Version/
PDF<br>
* Expanded Journal Coverage<br>
* Extra Search Options for Journal Abbreviations and Electronic
ISSNs<br>
* New Tabular Browse View for Publishers<br>
* Selective Display of Publishers' Compliance with Funding Agencys'
Mandates<br><br>
What's New?<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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. <br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
Why is RoMEO important?<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.
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Authors can be left confused: RoMEO helps to clarify the
situation.<br><br>
What does RoMEO give users?<br><br>
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:<br><br>
* View summaries of publishers' copyright policies in relation to
self-archiving<br>
* 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<br>
* To search journal and publisher information by Journal Title, Publisher
Name and ISSN<br><br>
Additionally RoMEO provides lists of<br><br>
* Identify publishers that allow the use of their PDFs in Institutional
Repositories<br>
* Identify publisher with Paid OA Options<br><br>
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.<br><br>
Future Work<br><br>
The Centre for Research Communications is continuing to improve the
facilities provided by RoMEO and is always interested in community
feedback. <br><br>
Contact<br>
romeo@sherpa.ac.uk<br><br>
* SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly
Communication 2007.<br><br>
RoMEO -
<a href="http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo" eudora="autourl">
www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo<br>
</a>Zetoc -
<a href="http://www.zetoc.ac.uk/" eudora="autourl">www.zetoc.ac.uk<br>
</a>Entrez -
<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/citmatch_help.html#JournalLists" eudora="autourl">
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/citmatch_help.html#JournalLists</a> <br>
DOAJ - <a href="http://www.doaj.org/" eudora="autourl">www.doaj.org<br>
</a>JULIET -
<a href="http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet" eudora="autourl">
www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet</a> <br><br>
Jane H Smith B.Sc (Hons) M.Sc MCLIP<br>
SHERPA Services Development Officer<br><br>
SHERPA -
<a href="http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/" eudora="autourl">www.sherpa.ac.uk<br>
</a>SHERPA/RoMEO -
<a href="http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php" eudora="autourl">
www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php<br>
</a>OpenDOAR -
<a href="http://www.opendoar.org/" eudora="autourl">www.opendoar.org<br>
</a>Juliet -
<a href="http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet" eudora="autourl">
www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet<br>
</a>Nottingham E-Prints -
<a href="http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/" eudora="autourl">
http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/<br><br>
</a>Centre for Research Communications<br>
Greenfield Medical Library<br>
University of Nottingham,<br>
Queens Medical Centre<br>
Nottingham<br>
NG7 2UH<br><br>
Phone: 0115 951 4341<br>
Fax: 0115 823 0549<br><br>
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