<font size="2"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">[Forwarding from SHERPA. --Peter Suber.]<br></font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal">To celebrate Valentine ’s Day, RoMEO is pleased to
announce that it now covers over 700 publishers from around the globe. Of these
publishers,<b> </b>63% formally allow some form of self-archiving. We welcome
our 700<sup>th</sup> publisher: AgroParisTech, ENGREF</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On Valentine ’s Day – like every other day,
RoMEO and JULIET enable users to search for publishers’ policies on
self-archiving and to sort their results by funding agency compliance. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Why is RoMEO important? </i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Authors can be left confused: RoMEO helps to clarify the
situation.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>What does RoMEO give users?</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The SHERPA service RoMEO, based 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:</p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Symbol">* </font>View summaries of publishers’ copyright
policies in relation to self-archiving</p><p class="MsoNormal">* View if publisher policies comply with funding
regulations, as some publishers are too restrictive and cannot be used to
publish funded research</p><p class="MsoNormal">* To search journal and publisher information by
Journal Title, Publisher Name, ISSN and eSSN</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Additional RoMEO provides lists of</p><p class="MsoNormal">* Publishers that allow the use of their PDFs in
Institutional Repositories</p><p class="MsoNormal">* Publisher with Paid Options</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">RoMEO is seen as an essential resource by many in the Open
Access community. RoMEO is funded by JISC. Journal information is kindly
provided by the British Library's Zetoc service hosted by MIMAS, the Directory
of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) hosted by Lund University Libraries, and the
Entrez journal list hosted by the NCBI.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Background information:</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">The SHERPA service RoMEO is
based at the Centre for Research Communications, University of Nottingham and
works on a portfolio of projects related to Open Access and repository
development.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The
Centre for Research Communications (CRC) was formed in April 2009, to help to
support and inform the changes and new ideas in the way that research is
communicated around the world. Research communications are changing rapidly,
opening up access for more people to more research, than has been available
before. The CRC houses a portfolio of open access projects and initiatives
currently undertaken by the University of Nottingham.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt">In
addition, t</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">he
Centre for Research Communications, maintains the SHERPA services: RoMEO,
JULIET and <i>Open</i>DOAR</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For all enquiries regarding RoMEO please contact: <a href="mailto:romeo@sherpa.ac.uk" target="_blank">romeo@sherpa.ac.uk</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">RoMEO <a href="http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php" target="_blank">http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">JULIET <a href="http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet" target="_blank">http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">SHERPA <a href="http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/</a>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">JISC <a href="http://www.jisc.ac.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.jisc.ac.uk/</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Zetoc <a href="http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/" target="_blank">http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/</a>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">DOAJ <a href="http://www.doaj.org/" target="_blank">http://www.doaj.org/</a>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Entrez <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/citmatch_help.html#JournalLists" target="_blank">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/citmatch_help.html#JournalLists</a>
</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jane H Smith</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">SHERPA Services Development Officer</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tel: 01159514341</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Centre for Research Communications</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Greenfield Medical Library</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Queens Medical Centre</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">University of Nottingham</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NG7 2UH</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">RoMEO <a href="http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo" target="_blank">www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">JULIET <a href="http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet" target="_blank">www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Open</i>DOAR <a href="http://www.opendoar.org" target="_blank">www.opendoar.org</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></div></div>