SHERPA is delighted to announce that its service RoMEO has doubled its entries in the past year and now lists 300 publisher policies on self-archiving.
Why is RoMEO important?
If an academic author wants to put their research article on-line, they are faced with an increasingly complex situation....[S]ome 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....
The RoMEO service...offers users the ability to:
View summaries of publishers' copyright policies in relation to self-archiving
View if publisher policies comply with funding regulations, as some publishers are too restrictive and cannot be used to publish funded research
To search journal and publisher information by Journal Title, Publisher Name and ISSN ...
PS: Thanks and congratulations to SHERPA. RoMEO is indispensable for the OA movement; and as it covers more publisher policies, it becomes even more indispensable.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/12/2007 12:02:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
