<font size="2"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">[Forwarding from SHERPA Services. --Peter Suber.]</font><br><br></font><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div><div></div><div class="h5"><u></u>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="2">SHERPA Services is pleased to announce that it
has added a 'country' field to its database of publishers' copyright and
self-archiving policies. This has enabled us to generate a statistical table of
the number of RoMEO-listed publishers by country and continent:</font></div>
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<div><span><font face="Verdana" size="2">
</font></span><font face="Verdana" size="2"><a href="http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/statistics#countries" target="_blank">http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/statistics#countries</a></font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="2">'Country' has also been added to the Advanced
Search options for publishers:</font></div>
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</font></span><font face="Verdana" size="2"><a href="http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/?mode=advanced" target="_blank">http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/?mode=advanced</a></font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="2">and as a query option for the Application
Programmers' Interface (API):</font></div>
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</font></span><font face="Verdana" size="2"><a href="http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/apimanual" target="_blank">http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/apimanual</a></font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="2">The apparent imbalance in the distribution of
RoMEO-listed publishers by country reflects two things:</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="2">1. It reflects the focus of RoMEO on the journals
with the highest impact, as indicated by Thomson Reuters' 'Web of Knowledge',
which are mostly published in the United States and Europe.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="2">2. The proportionately higher numbers for some
countries, notably Portugal and Norway, reflect the effort that our partners in
these countries have put into adding their country's publishers to
RoMEO.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="2">We hope that users will find this extra
information useful.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="2">Regards</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="2">Peter Millington & Jane Smith</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="2">SHERPA Services<br>University of Nottingham<br><a href="mailto:romeo@sherpa.ac.uk" target="_blank">romeo@sherpa.ac.uk</a></font></div></font></div><br>
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