The UK’s Centre for Research Communications (CRC) has announced significant upgrades and additions to the SHERPA service, RoMEO. The RoMEO service – targeted at publishers and authors - is provided by the Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access (SHERPA) team at CRC.
Previous versions of RoMEO have concentrated on highlighting information on the use of the pre-print and post-print. According to the organisers, there has been 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. The aim is to enable 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 will now be 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 open access option.
Publishers and authors who receive funding from any of the 50 plus agencies listed in JULIET can now restrict their search results to display publishers' compliance with any of the funding agencies' policies listed in JULIET.
The RoMEO service seeks to use a simple colour code to classify policies and inform authors of what can be done with their articles. It also 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; and to search journal and publisher information by journal title, publisher name and ISSN.
The SHERPA team at the University of Nottingham had announced the formation of the CRC in June 2009. CRC houses the portfolio of open access projects, services and initiatives currently undertaken by the University. These include the home of the SHERPA partnership; the open access services RoMEO, Juliet and OpenDOAR; the Repositories Support Project (RSP), and the University contribution to the European and international projects DRIVER, Dart-Europe and NECOBELAC.
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