SHERPA Services Blog

Readers of this blog will have noticed the occasional notification of new exceptions that have been added to RoMEO.

But what are these exceptions and why are they important?

RoMEO has traditionally focussed on the general policies of publishers, those that cover the majority of their journals titles. However, some titles may have a different embargo period or use a Creative Commons License. Although, we have tried to impart this information under the General Conditions field, it has become cumbersome and still requires users to investigate themselves as to which embargo period applies to their journal of interest.

We started adding exceptions in November 2011, and are continuing the process as they are identified and we clarify the policy exceptions with publishers.

Some exceptions will cover only one journal title, others much more.

To date RoMEO lists a total of 59 exceptions, from 25 Publishers. We are still working through publishers we have identified as having possible exceptions and hope to add more in the future.

A list of the Exceptions added so far:

• Akademie Ved Ceske Republiky, Knihovna
• Knihy a dejiny [6/3/12]
• American Medical Association
• JAMA  [17/11/11]
• American Society for Microbiology
• mBio [26/4/12]
• ASIS&T
• Bulletin – [17/11/11]
•  JASIS&T – [17/11/11]
• American Society of Clinical Oncology
• JCO [29/11/11]
• JOP [29/11/11]
• BMJ Publishing Group
• BMJ [30/1/12]
• BMj Open [18/4/12]
• ediPUCRS
• Analise [18/4/12]
• BELT [18/4/12]
• EDP Sciences
• EDJ [26/4/12]
• Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial [26/4/12]
• Institut Français d’Etudes Andines (IFEA)
• Bulletin de l’IFEA [23/3/12]
• Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia
• Corrosão e Protecção de Materiais [13/12/11]
• MIT Press
• STM [17/11/11]
•  Arts and Humanities [17/11/11]
•  Economics [17/11/11]
• Oxford University Press
• Policy A – [16/11/11]
• Policy A1 – [15/11/11]
• Policy B – [16/11/11]
• Policy B1 – [15/11/11]
• Policy C –  [16/11/11]
• Policy D – [15/11/11]
• Policy E – [16/11/11]
• Policy F – [15/11/11]
• Policy G – [15/11/11]
• Policy H – [15/11/11]
• Policy I – [15/11/11]
• Policy J – [15/11/11]
• Policy K – [15/11/11]
• Policy L – [15/11/11]
• Policy M – [15/11/11]
• Policy N – [16/11/11]
• Policy O – [15/11/11]
• Policy P [12/9/12]
• Policy Q [12/9/12]

•  Pion

• i-Perception [10/5/12]
• Perception [10/5/12]
• Royal Society
• Open Biology [19/7/12]
• Taylor & Francis
• SSH Titles [5/12/11]
• STM Titles [5/12/11]
• Taylor & Francis (Psychology Press)
• STM Titles [5/12/11]
• Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
• LIS Titles [1/12/11]
• SSH Titles [1/12/11]
• STM Titles [1/12/11]
• Universidad de Murcia [14/9/12]
• Glosas Didacticas
• Universidade de Brasilia
• Attribution Non-Commercial  [17/9/12]
• Attribution Non-Commercial No-Derivatives  [17/9/12]
• Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike  [17/9/12]
• Universite Paris 3, Institut des Hautes Etudes de l’Amérique Latine (IHEAL) [3/1/12]
• Cahiers des Ameriques Latines
• Univ Chig Press
• Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific [17/11/11]
• Università degli Studi di Milano (University of Milan)
• Attribution [17/4/12]
• Share Alike [17/4/12]
• Enthymema [17/4/12]
• Uni of Texas Press
• Cinema Journal [17/11/11]
• Vittorio Klostermann
• ZfBB [29/11/11]
• Wildlife Society
• Journal of Wildlife Management [18/4/12]

Journal Research Data Policy Bank (JoRD) will shed light on the policies devised by academic publishers to promote linkage between journal articles and underlying research data.

This initiative, is funded by JISC as part of its Digital Infrastructure Programme;  it runs from July to December 2012. This work is being carried out by the Centre for Research Communication, University of Nottingham, working with Research Information Network and Professor Paul Sturges.

The aim of the JoRD Policy Bank project is to conduct a feasibility study into the scope and shape of a sustainable service to collate and summarise journal data policies. The project will deliver requirements and specifications for a service that will provide researchers, managers of research data and other stakeholders with an easy source of reference to understand and comply with the research data policies of journals and publishers.

Through maintaining a firm focus upon research literature and stakeholder consultations, the project aims to:

• identify and consult with a wide range of stakeholders, publishers and others, and develop a detailed set of stakeholder requirements and service specifications;
• investigate the current state of data sharing policies within journals and shed light on how journals are addressing this crucial question;
• scope and deliver recommendations on the shape of a central service that will (i) summarise journal research data policies; and (ii) provide a ready reference source of easily accessible, standardised, accurate and clear guidance and information relating to the journal policy landscape for research data;
• provide models to establish the business framework that will allow the committed relationships necessary to deliver such a service on a long term basis;
• provide service sustainability models determining how the long term operation of such a service can be sustained.

JoRD Blog and Project Website (http://jordproject.wordpress.com/)

Azhar,  Jane and Melanie

We have recently updated the chart showing the growth and fate of OpenDOAR suggestions over time:

Suggestion Outcomes by Year for OpenDOAR

The overall annual number of suggestions has grown steadily, but the rejection rate has remained steady at about 22% of suggestions. There was a significant problem with spam during OpenDOAR’s first two years. We added spam blocking functions to the Suggestions form in 2007, which significantly reduced the amount of spam received, and which seems to be staying at a reassuringly low level.

See http://www.opendoar.org/suggestionschart.html for the chart full size and for further information on the various reasons for rejection.

Peter

RoMEO

Added new publishers:

•  Association of Computer Electronics and Electrical Engineers – Blue [22/8/12]

• Melbourne University, Law Review Association – Blue [22/8/12]
• McGill University, Faculty of Education – Green [22/8/12]
• Kairali Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathologists – Blue [22/8/12]
• Sociedade Portuguesa de Anestesiologia – White {blimunda} [22/8/12]
• Sociedade Portuguesa de Oftalmologia – Blue (Blimunda) [22/8/12]
• Associação Portuguesa dos Nutricionistas– White {blimunda} [22/8/12]
• Sociedade Portuguesa de Nefrologia – Blue (Blimunda) [22/8/12]
• Hospital Fernando Fonseca, Servico de Psiquiatria Blue (Blimunda) [22/8/12]
• Sociedade Portuguesa de Medicina Física e de Reabilitação– White {blimunda} [22/8/12]
• Formifarma – White {blimunda} [22/8/12]

Total publishers: 1139 [22/8/12] 3 provisional [23/4/12]

Percentage of RoMEO that is in Web of Science: 50.92%

Updated entries

Jane updated the following publisher entries:

• Universidade de Lisboa, Jardim Botanico – main and policy URL [2/8/12]
• Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Science – added additional policy url [2/8/12]
• Australian Computer Society Inc – Main URL [7/8/12]
• Presses Universitaires de France – Embargo reduced from 5 to 3 years [24/8/12]
• Kairali Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathologists – Pre-print allowed [24/8/12] – form suggestion
• Mohr Siebeck – policy wording [31/8/12]

JULIET

Overall Total: 102 [7/8/12]

Publications: 71, Data: 30, OA Journals: 40 No Policy 25 Retired: 2

 Added:

• Motor Neuron Disease Association [7/8/12]
• Irish Research Council [8/8/12]

Retired:

• Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) [8/8/12] – merged into Irish Research Council
• Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (IRCSET) [8/8/12] – merged into Irish Research Council