SHERPA

From Eureka

SHERPA stands for Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access. According to their website,

SHERPA is investigating issues in the future of scholarly communication. It is developing open-access institutional repositories in a number of research universities to facilitate the rapid and efficient worldwide dissemination of research.

SHERPA is particularly concerned with the question of how to make scholarly writings widely available and openly accessible, an aim which sometimes conflicts with the aims of commercial publishers. Their website contains various resources for authors. In particular, their ROMEO resource lists the policies of various publishers and journals on copyright transfer and on whether authors are barred from placing their own papers in freely accessible electronic archives.

[edit]