SHERPA Services Blog

April

RoMEO

Added new publishers:

• Agrárgazdasági Kutató Intézet [5/3/13] Green
• ANU E Press [12/4/13] – Green
• Association of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineers [11/4/13] Blue
• BioLim Publishers [8/4/13] – White
• BioScientifica [30/4/13] – White
• British Institute of Persian Studies [5/4/13] Green
• CENALTES [17/4/13] – Blue
• Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation [29/4/13] – Blue
• Clute Institute [12/4/13] – Green
• eLife Sciences Publications [9/4/13] Green
• Foundation Compositio Mathematica [22/4/13] – Yellow
• IJMESS International Publishers [8/4/13] – Blue
• Librello [5/4/13] Green
• London Mathematical Society [22/4/13] – Green
• Marques Aviation Press [18/4/13] – Green
• National Aviation University [11/4/13] Blue
• Nutrition Society [22/4/13] – White
• Princeton University, Department of Mathematics [5/4/13] Blue
• Universidad de Oriente [10/4/13] Green
• Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana [5/4/13] Green
• Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro [29/4/13] – Green
• Whiting and Birch [5/4/13] – Blue

Total publishers: 1241 [30/4/13] 3 provisional [24/1/13]

Total added in Apr: 22

Updates

• American Academy of Neurology (AAN) [25/4/13] added policy for WT, RCUK etc
• American Association for the Advancement of Science [26/4/13]
• American Geophysical Union – policy URls, paid option and url [25/4/13]
• Crop Science Society of America [9/4/13] – White to Green
• Elsevier [9/4/13] – updated wording
• Elsevier España  (Elsevier Doyma) [9/4/13] – updated wording
• Emerald [3/4/13]
• Entomological Society of America [3/4/13]
• John Libbey Eurotext [5/4/13] – policy wording
• Journal of Visualized Experiments [3/4/13]
• Maney Publishing [25/4/13] – URLs
• Royal College of General Practitioners [4/4/13]
• Russian New University [4/4/13]
• Scientific Research Publishing[12/4/13] – wording, added CC license details
• Wiley-Blackwell [4/4/13]

JULIET

 Updated:

• AHRC [9/4/13] – added FAQ link
• BBSRC [9/4/13] – added FAQ link
• ESRC [9/4/13] – added FAQ link
• EPSRC [9/4/13] – added FAQ link
• NERC [9/4/13] – added FAQ link
• MRC [9/4/13] – added FAQ link
• STFC [9/4/13] – added FAQ link

RoMEO

New Entries

• Akademie věd České republiky, Matematický ústav [4/3/13]
• AKROASIS – Green [4/3/13]
• Bogdan Chmelnitsky Melitopol State Pedagogical University [1/3/13]
• eRittenhouse [15/3/13]
• Fagbokforlaget – White [7/3/13]
• Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus [8/3/13]
• International Association of Academicians, Scholars, Scientists & Engineers (IAASSE) – Blue [4/3/13]
• Otoloaryngology Online [4/3/13]
• Polskie Towarzystwo Pedagogiczne – Blue [1/3/13]
• Poultry Science Association – White [1/3/13]

Updated entries

• Academic Conferences International to Academic Conferences and Publishing International (ACPI) [7/3/13]
• Berg Publishers to Bloomsbury Publishing [7/3/13]
• British Institute of Radiology  – policy clarification [21/3/13]
• Institute of Physics – policy clarification [21/3/13]
• Royal Society of Chemistry – Blue to Green [21/3/13]
• SAGE – Yellow to Green [11/3/13]
• Springer – Yellow to Green [21/3/13]
• Université Paris 3, Institut des Hautes Etudes de l’Amérique Latine (IHEAL / Université Paris 3): Cahiers des Ameriques Latines – White to Green [8/3/13]

New Journal Exceptions

• Akademie věd České republiky, Matematický ústav
• Mathematica Bohemica [4/3/13]
• Nature Publishing Group
• Open Access Journals Option A [6/3/13]
• Open Access Journals Option B [6/3/13]
• Open Access Hybrid Model Option A [6/3/13]
• Open Access Hybrid Model Option B [6/3/13]
• Fagbokforlaget
• PDF Only [7/3/13]
• On Request [7/3/13]
• Johns Hopkins University Press
• Bulletin of the History of Medicine [14/3/13]
• American Journal of Mathematics  [14/3/13]
• Econometric Society
• Econometrica [15/3/13]
• EDP Sciences
• Open Access Journals [19/3/13]
• Institute of Physics
• Open Access Journals [21/3/13]
• STAM [21/3/13]
• Hybrid Open Access [21/3/13]
  

JULIET

New additions:

• Australian Research Council [2013]
• Wellcome Trust – 2013 policy
• AHRC – 2013 policy
• BBSRC – 2013 policy
• ESRC – 2013 policy
• EPSRC – 2013 policy
• MRC – 2013 policy
• NERC – 2013 policy
• STFC – 2013 policy

Joint Press Release: Centre for Research Communications, Wellcome Trust, and RCUK

SHERPA/FACT – BETA Release Now Available

To coincide with the RCUK’s new OA policy and Wellcome Trust policy changes, the Centre for Research Communications (CRC) is pleased to announce the availability of SHERPA Funders’ & Authors’ Compliance Tool (SHERPA/FACT) Beta. The beta release of SHERPA/FACT interprets data from SHERPA/RoMEO, JULIET and other sources to provide clear guidance to RCUK and Wellcome Trust funded authors on compliance with their Open Access (OA) policies and advises on the options available.

SHERPA/FACT Beta:

• Asks authors to select which of the RCUK Councils or Wellcome Trust has funded their work.
• Asks authors to enter the journal name or ISSN of the journal they wish to use.
• Cross-references the information held in RoMEO and in JULIET on both Funders’ and Publishers’ policies.
• Gives the author clear information as to whether that journal offers publication or archiving rights compliant with their funders’ policy.
• Notes the level of OA fee payable, if any, and if available from the publisher site.
• Gives guidance to the author as to what action to take next to comply with their funders’ policy, customising guidance according to the stage of the author’s publication – accepted, published, etc.

For more information and to use SHERPA/FACT beta, please visit www.sherpa.ac.uk/fact

IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a beta version and has been tested for accuracy against existing data held by SHERPA/RoMEO, JULIET and other third party sources. However, information in this area is dynamic and many publishers are currently updating, changing and clarifying their policies in response to the launch of the RCUK and Wellcome Trust policies.

As updated policy information becomes available from publishers, SHERPA/FACT will be updated accordingly. We are aware of a number of changes due to be released soon – indeed, FACT may even prompt further clarifications to be made. FACT beta will, over the coming weeks, undergo continuous improvements to the information it holds.

Please use SHERPA/FACT beta for evaluation purposes and report any information that needs updating and any other comments to fact@sherpa.ac.uk.

Bill Hubbard, Director of the CRC, said: “For more Open Access research from the RCUK and Wellcome Trust to be made available to everyone, researchers need clear guidance about whether their chosen journal complies with their funder’s policy. SHERPA/FACT will give them a clear answer, help raise an institution’s rate of compliance and ultimately help more research to be made available to us all.”

Mark Thorley, chair of Research Councils UK Research Outputs Network, said: “The launch of this beta version of SHERPA FACT is part of our strategy of providing a range of resources to support implementation of the new RCUK Policy on Open Access”.

Robert Kiley, Head of Digital Services at the Wellcome Trust, said: ”Providing clear guidance to our researchers will help to ensure they can comply with the Trust’s Open Access mandate.”

Further information

Contact
Azhar Hussain
Tel: 0115 8467235 or email: azhar.hussain@nottingham.ac.uk

CRC and SHERPA Services Offices will be closed over the Easter holidays 29th March to 2nd April.

SHERPA FACT will interpret data from SHERPA RoMEO, JULIET and other sources to provide guidance to RCUK and Wellcome Trust funded authors on compliance with their Open Access (OA) policies and advise on the options available. Checking SHERPA FACT will be an integral part of the author compliance workflow and RCUK and the Wellcome Trust will be advising their funded authors to check SHERPA FACT for information on journal compliance and guidance on how to comply with their OA policies.

As part of this work we are currently reviewing and updating the policy information we hold in SHERPA RoMEO.

If you are aware of any changes to publisher policies, including their hybrid open access options, please let us know by using the ‘Suggest an Update for this Record’ button or e-mailing us on  romeo@sherpa.ac.uk

SHERPA FACT will interpret data from SHERPA RoMEO, JULIET and other sources to provide guidance to RCUK and Wellcome Trust funded authors on compliance with their Open Access (OA) policies and advise on the options available. Checking SHERPA FACT will be an integral part of the author compliance workflow and RCUK and the Wellcome Trust will be advising their funded authors to check SHERPA FACT for information on journal compliance and guidance on how to comply with their OA policies.

As part of this work we are currently reviewing and updating the policy information we hold in SHERPA RoMEO. From recent conversations with publishers we know that many have plans to amend and launch policy updates before or on 01 April, as a result we expect to receive an influx of updates to SHERPA RoMEO policies on the 1st of April which will take some time to process.

To help us ensure that we have current and proposed policy information ready for upload on 01 April, we would be grateful if publishers would take this opportunity to:

• Visit www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo and review the policies listed against their entry and let us know of any changes required by using the ‘Suggest an Update for this Record’ button or e-mailing us on  romeo@sherpa.ac.uk
• Lets us know the details of any Hybrid Open Access Options
• Inform us of any proposed policy changes prior to 01 April, this information will be held under strict embargo in SHERPA RoMEO and will only be made available after the 01 April RCUK OA policy launch

Please note that the CRC will be closed over the Easter holidays 29th March to 2nd April, so our first working day after the 1st April will be Wednesday the 3rd April.

The Centre for Research Communications (CRC) is pleased to announce that Research Councils UK (RCUK) and the Wellcome Trust have provided seed funding for the development of a SHERPA Funders’ & Authors’ Compliance Tool (SHERPA FACT). SHERPA FACT will interpret data from SHERPA RoMEO, JULIET and other sources to provide clear guidance to RCUK and Wellcome Trust funded authors on compliance with their Open Access (OA) policies and advise on the options available.

The RCUK’s new OA policy will be effective from 01 April 2013. This policy requires that all peer reviewed research papers, resulting from research funded by the Research Councils, will be published in journals under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) License or otherwise made available as OA via a repository. On the same date, the Wellcome Trust will also require that articles with which it is associated – and for which an Article Processing Charge (APC) has been levied – must also be published under a CC-BY license. 

SHERPA FACT will:

• allow authors to select which of the RCUK Councils or Wellcome Trust has funded their work
• allow authors to enter the journal name or ISSN, or ESSN, or publisher of the journal they wish to use
• cross-reference the information held in RoMEO and in JULIET on both Funders’ and Publishers’ policies
• give the author clear information as to whether that journal or publisher offers publication or archiving rights compliant with their funders’ policy
• note the level of OA fee payable, if any, and if available from the publisher site
• give guidance to the author as to what action to take next to comply with their funders’ policy, customising guidance according to the stage of the author’s publication – pre-submission, accepted, published, etc

Such guidance might be, for example, to:

• take a hybrid OA option offered by the publisher;
• pay the OA fee for a full OA journal or
• archive their work under a particular embargo period

SHERPA FACT will be available from 01 April 2013.

Further information

Contact
Azhar Hussain
Tel: 0115 8467235 or email: azhar.hussain@nottingham.ac.uk

RoMEO

 New Publishers

• Centro de Estudios en Neuropsicologia – BLUE [22/2/13]
• Civil Szemle Alapítvány [13/2/13] Blue – HUNOR
• Editura Universităţii de Nord Baia Mare [13/2/13] Yellow – HUNOR
• Ferrata Storti Foundation – Blue [15/2/13]
• INFONIA Alapítvány [13/2/13] Green – HUNOR
• Központi Statisztikai Hivatal [13/2/13] White– HUNOR
• Magyar Bankszövetség [13/2/13] Blue – HUNOR
• Magyar Külügyi Intézet [13/2/13] Blue – HUNOR
• Russian Psychological Society – Green [22/2/13]
• SETScholars – Green – [15/2/13]
• Society for Applied Anthropology – White [22/2/13]
• Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte – Green [22/2/13]
• University of Piraeus (Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς) – Green [22/2/13]

Updates

• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics White to Blue [1/2/13]
• Associação de Editores do Journal of Portuguese Linguistics (AEJPL) – White to Yellow [26/2/13]
• Astronomical Society of the Pacific – main url [5/2/13]
• British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery – main and policy url [19/2/13]
• British Institute of Radiology – policy url, policy update, Paid OA url [19/2/13] Blue to Yellow
• Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina – mian url [5/2/13]
• Genetics Society of America – White to Yellow [26/2/13]
• International Union of Crystallography – policy url corrected [15/2/13]
• Journal of Visualized Experiments  (JoVE) [18/2/13]
• Massachusetts Medical Society- minor policy changes [15/2/13]
• Partnership (Provincial and Territorial Library Association of Canada) – PDF allowed [15/2/13]
• Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology, Department of Environmental Engineering– main url [5/2/13]
• Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Fakulta Socialnich Ved – added PDF use [8/2/13]

Journal Exceptions

• Genetics Society of America
• G3 [12/2/13]
• American Library Association
• Library and Information Technology Association [12/2/13]
• British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery
• Open Access [19/2/13]
• Oxford University Press
• AoB [21/2/13}
• EJIL [21/2/13]
• Wiley Open Access
• Chemistry Open [25/2/13]
• Palgrave Macmillan
• Palgrave Open: Option B [26/2/13]

JULIET

• Multiple Sclerosis Society [5/2/13]

RoMEO

New:

• Bentham Open – Green [24/1/13]
• FRACISOMED-LV (Fraternidad Académica-Científica-Social Médica “Luz y Vida”) – Blue [23/1/13]
• Fundación iS+D para la Investigación Social Avanzada [Blue] [23/1/13]
• International Foundation for Modern Education and Scientific Research (INFOMESR) – Blue [14/1/13]
• Kerman University of Medical Science – Blue [23/1/13]
• Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft – White [28/1/13]
• Quanta Green [23/1/13]
• Society of Nuclear Medicine – Blue [23/1/13]
• Universidad Politécnica de Valencia [30/1/13]
• Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Comunicações e Artes, Centro de Estudos Latino-Americanos sobre Cultura e Comunicação [Blue] [23/1/13]
• Universitas Ahmad Dahlan– Blue [14/1/13]
• Updated [29/1/13] Green
• Российский новый университет (Russian New University) – Blue [14/1/13]

Updates

•  African Criminology and Justice Association (US) [4/1/13 ] – new url

• American Society of Agronomy– wording of link to full-text, plus policy URL [11/12/12]
• Associação Portuguesa dos Nutricionistas – White to Green [17/1/13]
• Association Publications de l’Institute Henri Poincaré to Institute Henri and main url [10/1/13
• Australian Mathematical Society Green to Yellow [25/1/13]
• Chinese University Press – main url [7/1/13]
• Portland Press: Creative Commons – changed to CC-BY [25/1/13]

Exceptions

• Nature Publishing Group
• EMBO [24/1/13]
• Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft
• No PDF [29/1/13]
• Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
• 12 month Embargo [30/1/13]
• 24 month Embargo [30/1/13]
•  Pre-print Allowed [30/1/13]

JULIET

New

• Fight for Sight [30/1/13]
• Prostate Cancer UK [30/1/13]
• World Cancer Research Fund International [30/1/13]

Updates

• ARC [22/1/13]

·         Canadian Institutes of Health Research [3/1/13] [21/1/13]

·         Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft  – changed required to encouraged, at request of funder, this is not a policy change but an error on our part in interpretation [14/1/13]

·         NERC – Data Policy [3/1/13]

Further to our new interface for JULIET, I would like to take the opportunity to invite you all to suggest new additions.

• Do you know of a funding agency with an open access policy not listed in JULIET?
• Is there a funding agency or charity you would like us to investigate?
• Do you work for an agency that funds research?

Please get in contact via our online form or email juliet@sherpa.ac.uk

Open Access policies can take many forms; it is not just all about publishing in Open Access Journals. Some funders request that their fundees archive their publication in open access repositories; other may request they also archive their datasets.

Here is a good summary (PDF) of What Open Access is from the Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook

Jane