SHERPA Services and SHERPA/RoMEO

ABSTRACT

European-based SHERPA (Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access) services are a suite of free scholarly communication resources aimed at proving authors information on publisher’s open access policies. SHERPA’s most notable service is RoMEO, is a database aggregating publisher archiving policies which allows researchers quick access to copyright and self-archiving policies of more than 23,000 global publishers.

KEYWORDS:

• Open-access
• scholarly communication
• scholarly publishing
• self-archiving
• SHERPA/RoMEO