SHERPA Services is pleased to announce the launch of a beta version of an application programmers’ interface (API) for SHERPA/FACT, the funders and authors compliance tool. This is available for beta testing during November 2013. Potential Applications SHERPA/FACT is a tool that helps authors check if a journal’s open access policies complies with the requirements … Read more
We have been clearing the decks in readiness for the next upgrade to the SHERPA/RoMEO API, which will be a major redevelopment. Technical Manual The main technical manual has been consolidated to incorporate all the addenda from recent enhancements to the API, and has been generally reviewed and updated. The new manual is available at: … Read more
I has been always been possible to provide a link to the OpenDOAR entry for a given repository using its persistent numeric identifier. However, these link URLs have hitherto been rather long and cumbersome. Now we have implemented simpler and shorter links based on REST principles. For example: http://opendoar.org/id/227/ – OpenDOAR entry for ‘Nottingham eTheses’ (ID: 227). OpenDOAR … Read more
We are pleased to announce that SHERPA will be running a Workshop on the RoMEO API on the 1st September in Edinburgh as a pre-event for Repository Fringe 2010 (http://eris.lib.ed.ac.uk/repofringe/). The workshop will be in two parts: The morning will begin with a brief introduction to the RoMEO database and the API, followed … Read more