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 and the SHERPA Partnership are both based at the Centre for Research Communications at the University of Nottingham.

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

• SHERPA speaking events - for future events see CRC
• 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

The SHERPA services and partnership are based at the Centre for Research Communications at the University of Nottingham. For more information on current projects see the CRC website.

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 and DP 2 - looking at preservation models
• PROSPERO - scoping The Depot keep-safe service
• EThOS - developing a national eTheses service
• Copyright Knowledge Bank - copyright investigation
• DRIVER - developing a cross-European repository network infrastructure
• Intute: Repository Search - searches across 90 UK academic repositories
• The Depot a keep-safe repository for UK academics
• RSP (phase I) - support service for UK repository growth - current RSP Phase II

SHERPA: Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access

News

• Spanish Version of RoMEO Released
• Disponible la nueva versión en castellano de ROMEO
• RoMEO announces 900th Publisher
• New SHERPA/RoMEO Journals Database
• Portuguese Version of RoMEO Released
• JISC InfoKit on repositories
• more news...

Jobs

• Digital Library Officer, Wolverhampton Campus
• Business Manager, EDINA, Edinburgh

Funders

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

SHERPA is hosted by the University of Nottingham