Jane Anders
Sherpa services development officer
Role
I am the content administrator for the Sherpa suite of open access services: Romeo, Juliet, Fact and OpenDOAR. These services provide access to information on the open access policies of publishers and funding agencies; compliance information with UK funding agencies and information on research repositories respectively.
I review and update our records of these open access policies in order to maintain these services.
Background
I am an information professional with a background in information management and science information provision. I am a Chartered member of CILIP and an Associate member of ILM.
I hold a BSc in Immunology from University of Edinburgh, and an MSC in Electronic Information Management from Robert Gordon University.
Selected papers
- Pinfield, S., Salter, J., Bath, P. A., Hubbard, B., Millington, P., Anders, J. H.S. and Hussain, A. (2014), Open-access repositories worldwide, 2005–2012: Past growth, current characteristics, and future possibilities. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 65: 2404–2421. doi: 10.1002/asi.23131
- Sturges, P., Bamkin, M., Anders, J. H.S., Hubbard, B., Hussain, A. and Heeley, M. (2015), Research data sharing: Developing a stakeholder-driven model for journal policies. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 66: 2445–2455. doi: 10.1002/asi.23336
- Bamkin, Marianne; Smith, Jane; Hussain, Azhar, Journals and their Policies on Data Sharing: Lessons from the JoRD Project. LIBER 2013, Munich, Germany
- Bamkin, Marianne; Smith, Jane; Sturges, Paul; Hussain, Azhar; Hubbard, Bill, Publisher interest towards a role for journals in data-sharing: The findings of the JoRD project. ELPUB2013. Mining the Digital Information Networks, 17th International Conference on Electronic Publishing 13-14 June 2013, Karlskrona, Sweden.