Author self-archiving: Institutional archives
JISC FAIR Programme:
- SHERPA Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access
- TARDIS Targeting Academic Research for Deposit and dISclosure
- ROMEO Rights MEtadata for Open archiving
- e-prints UK
Notes:
SHERPA, lead institution: Nottingham University, will build e-archives at six UK universities: Edinburgh, Glasgow, Oxford, Nottingham, York, Leeds and Sheffield, plus the BL.
Seek post-prints in first instance and create a source of peer-reviewed material to convince academics that e-print repositories contain quality literature. Encourage academics to publish in journals as well as posting their work in the e-repository. Needs publisher support and cooperation, involves copyright issue, will assist academics to negotiate with publishers to self-archive.
E-Prints UK, Resource Discovery Network, King's College London – plans to develop a national service through which the collective output of e-print papers available from repositories in UK universities and colleges can be freely accessed. Using Citebase, e-archives are OAI compliant
TARDIS, Southampton University, looking at “the technical, cultural and academic barriers”, which might restrict the development of institutional eprint archives.
ROMEO, investigating copyright solutions to some of the problems facing the 'self-archiving' initiative, has created a survey asking for academic authors' views on copyright and self-archiving. (request to publicise it sent to Lis-Scitech in October).