Publisher policies on self-archiving: RoMEO reaches 300

Evidence shows that citations to articles made openly accessible through self-archiving in institutional and other repositories are taken up and cited more than research that is simply published in journals. In addition, some funding agencies insist on open access archiving for their research, to in'If academic authors want to put research articles online, they are faced with an increasingly complex situation'crease the use of the information.  

But if academic authors want to put research articles online, they are faced with an increasingly complex situation. Some publishers prohibit authors using their own articles in this way; others allow it, but only under certain conditions, while others are quite happy for authors to show their work in this way.

RoMEO helps to clarify the situation. Using a simple colour-code to classify policies and inform authors of what can be done with their articles, RoMEO offers users the ability to look at summaries of publishers’ copyright policies in relation to self-archiving and to see if policies comply with funding regulations 

RoMEO, seen as an essential resource by many in the Open Access community, is funded by Jisc and the Wellcome Trust. Journal information is kindly provided by the British Library's Zetoc service hosted by MIMAS

For further information, please go to: RoMEO 

SHERPA is based at the University of Nottingham and works on a portfolio of projects related to Open Access and repository development.

 

SHERPA is a 33 member consortium of research-led universities which specialises in promoting and advising on the development of open access repositories. Other services developed by SHERPA include JULIET and OpenDOAR.