R & D project

SHERPA REF

Informing and supporting authors and others on the open access requirements for post-2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF)

  • Started 1 Jan 2015

  • Budget:

    £50k to £250k

  • Expected outcome:

    New service

Explore more on this topic
Open access
Research and research data
Standards and policies
Meeting
Creative Commons attribution information
Meeting
©Marco Antonio Torres via Flickr
CC BY-SA

Building on the successful portfolio of SHERPA services, SHERPA REF helps authors and institutions decide whether a journal allows them to comply with the REF policy, and what to do when it does and when it does not.

New service launched

You can start using SHERPA REF now.

Key aims and benefits 

SHERPA REF is a web application that:

  • Provides UK higher education institution (HEI) authors with an innovative, easy to use web service
  • Quickly and accurately checks if a journal of choice is compliant with the REF open access (OA) policy
  • Takes account of the REF Panel under which a publication will fall
  • Advises authors on how to comply and inform them of relevant embargoes or other issues arising from publisher and journal policies
  • Provides UK HEIs with an innovative, easy to use web service that will advise them on what they need to know and do to ensure their publication output complies with the REF OA policy

SHERPA REF will benefit repository managers and academic authors in particular.

Get in touch

For more information about this project contact Azhar Hussain.

Meet the project team

Project timeline

SHERPA REF Beta launched

All

Show all 1 results

SHERPA REF project starts.