The document describes Jisc Sherpa Services, which provide tools to support open access. It includes summaries of five key services: Sherpa Romeo allows users to check publishers' self-archiving policies on a journal-by-journal basis; Sherpa Juliet provides information on funders' open access policies; OpenDOAR is a global directory of academic open access repositories; Sherpa Fact and Sherpa REF are overlay services that enhance discoverability of open access research outputs. The services help researchers, librarians and institutions comply with open access policies and requirements.

1. Jisc Sherpa Services
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2. Product team
»Product Manager
› Azhar Hussain - OpenAccess Services Manager, azhar.hussain@jisc.ac.uk
»Product support team
› Jane Anders - Sherpa Services Development Officer, jane.anders@jisc.ac.uk
› Adam Field - Analyst Developer Scholarly Communication Services,
adam.field@jisc.ac.uk
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3. SHERPA Services… What is it?
To support Open Access by providing simple,
standardized answers to compliance, policy and
requirement questions.
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4. Product overview
»Sherpa Services:
› Our Sherpa services are made up of five services:
–Sherpa Romeo, www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo
–Sherpa Juliet, www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet
–Sherpa FACT, www.sherpa.ac.uk/fact
–Sherpa REF, www.ref.sherpa.ac.uk
–OpenDOAR, www.opendoar.ac.uk
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5. Lifecycle of a research article
How our Services fit in
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6. OpenDOAR
OpenDOAR is the quality-assured global directory of academic open access
repositories. It enables the identification, browsing and search for repositories,
based on a range of features, such as location, software or type of material held
OpenDOAR offers tools and support to enable both repository administrators and
service providers to share best practice and improve the quality of the repository
infrastructure
www.opendoar.ac.uk
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7. OpenDOAR
» OpenDOAR enables librarians and their institutions to:
› Ensure their repository is providing a comparable service to their selected peer institutions
› Take advantage of best practice and provide good collection-level metadata
› Raise the visibility of the repository and its contents to search services, benefiting the institution as
a whole
› Provide analytic services for repository managers, enabling benchmarking of repository services
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8. OpenDOAR
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9. OpenDOAR
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10. Sherpa Juliet
SHERPA Juliet is an online resource that enables researchers and librarians to see
funders’ conditions for open access journals, open access archiving and open access
data
v2.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet
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11. Sherpa Juliet
» SHERPA Juliet is a searchable database and single focal point of up-to-date information
concerning funders’ policies and their requirements on open access journals, publication
and data archiving
» Helps to identify the compliance and clashes between the funder policies and international
publishers’ policies on open access
» Allows authors, librarians, and research managers to see instant summaries of funders’
conditions for open access publication
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12. Sherpa Juliet
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13. Sherpa Juliet
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14. Sherpa Romeo
SHERPA RoMEO is an online resource that aggregates and analyses publisher open
access policies from around the world and provides summaries of self-archiving
permissions and conditions of rights given to authors on a journal-by-journal basis.
www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo
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15. Sherpa Romeo
» SHERPA RoMEO enables researchers and librarians to see publishers’ conditions for open
access archiving on a journal-by-journal basis
» Gives authors confidence that they are depositing papers into their repository within the
conditions set by their journal, and the obligations of their particular research funder
» Gives librarians and research managers peace of mind that the same interpretation of
publisher and funder policies is being used by all other HEIs, so reducing the risk of
misinterpretation
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16. Sherpa Romeo
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17. Overlay Services
»Sherpa Fact www.sherpa.ac.uk/fact
»Sherpa REF www.ref.sherpa.ac.uk
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18. jisc.ac.uk
Contact: help@jisc.ac.uk
Info at: https://www.jisc.ac.uk/sherpa
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