Please be advised that transfer of Sherpa services to the Jisc Cloud Platform has been scheduled for the morning of Wednesday 2nd December.
Services affected: RoMEO, Juliet, FACT and OpenDOAR
It is expected that the disruption will only be for several minutes, however the service should be regarded as at risk all morning.
Please contact Sherpa Support at: sherpa@jisc.ac.uk if you require further information or require support at any time.
Please be advised that transfer of Sherpa services to the Jisc Cloud Platform has been scheduled for the morning of Wednesday 2nd December.
Services affected: RoMEO, Juliet, FACT and OpenDOAR
It is expected that the disruption will only be for several minutes, however the service should be regarded as at risk all morning.
Please contact Sherpa Support at: sherpa@jisc.ac.uk if you require further information or require support at any time.
Please be advised that transfer of Sherpa services to the Jisc Cloud Platform has been scheduled for the morning of Wednesday 2nd December.
Services affected: RoMEO, Juliet, FACT and OpenDOAR
It is expected that the disruption will only be for several minutes, however the service should be regarded as at risk all morning.
Please contact Sherpa Support at: sherpa@jisc.ac.uk if you require further information or require support at any time.
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The CRC says Goodbye and a Happy Retirement to Peter Millington.
Peter has been our Technical Development Officer since early 2006 and has been instrumental and fundamental to the design, growth, development and maintenance of the SHERPA Services run from here at the CRC at the University. These services, RoMEO, JULIET, OpenDOAR, FACT and the forthcoming REF system, are used and appreciated around the world, and take very high levels of use – (RoMEO’s API gets about 250,000 uses per day) – and at very high accuracy, which is a testament to Peter’s professionalism and abilities.
Bill Hubbard wishing Peter the best, looked on by current and former CRC staff members
In addition, through his work at the CRC, Peter has contributed to some of the most prominent and influential Open Access initiatives and projects of the last decade, in particular the national RSP support project and the international DRIVER initiative.
Peter receiving his gifts
Peter has always been far more than a technical development person. With a PhD and an active publication record in folklore, with a background in information science and experience in the commercial world, Peter has been able to bring to bear different perspectives to every problem, every analysis and design decision, which have been invaluable and have guided the services through to their current enviable reputation.
We are very sad to see Peter go, but wish him all the very best in what promises to be an active and packed retirement.
RoMEO, RoMEO! Wherefore art thou RoMEO?…err., because of Peter
Bill, Azhar, Jane, Alison and Tom
The CRC says Goodbye and a Happy Retirement to Peter Millington.
Peter has been our Technical Development Officer since early 2006 and has been instrumental and fundamental to the design, growth, development and maintenance of the SHERPA Services run from here at the CRC at the University. These services, RoMEO, JULIET, OpenDOAR, FACT and the forthcoming REF system, are used and appreciated around the world, and take very high levels of use – (RoMEO’s API gets about 250,000 uses per day) – and at very high accuracy, which is a testament to Peter’s professionalism and abilities.
Bill Hubbard wishing Peter the best, looked on by current and former CRC staff members
In addition, through his work at the CRC, Peter has contributed to some of the most prominent and influential Open Access initiatives and projects of the last decade, in particular the national RSP support project and the international DRIVER initiative.
Peter receiving his gifts
Peter has always been far more than a technical development person. With a PhD and an active publication record in folklore, with a background in information science and experience in the commercial world, Peter has been able to bring to bear different perspectives to every problem, every analysis and design decision, which have been invaluable and have guided the services through to their current enviable reputation.
We are very sad to see Peter go, but wish him all the very best in what promises to be an active and packed retirement.
RoMEO, RoMEO! Wherefore art thou RoMEO?…err., because of Peter
Bill, Azhar, Jane, Alison and Tom
The role will be responsible for the analysis, design and development of new digital scholarly communications services for Jisc customers, along with the maintenance and enhancement of an existing portfolio of services (SHERPA RoMEO, SHERPA JULIET, OpenDOAR, SHERPA FACT).
The key purpose of the role will be to develop and maintain digital services with a particular focus on:
Further information and details on how to apply can be found here
The role will be responsible for the analysis, design and development of new digital scholarly communications services for Jisc customers, along with the maintenance and enhancement of an existing portfolio of services (SHERPA RoMEO, SHERPA JULIET, OpenDOAR, SHERPA FACT).
The key purpose of the role will be to develop and maintain digital services with a particular focus on:
Further information and details on how to apply can be found here
RoMEO, JULIET, FACT and OpenDOAR will be offline between the hours of 6am to 6pm UK time on Saturday 11th July, in order for essential maintenance to be carried out at the Data Centre hosting our servers.
We apologize for any inconvenience that this causes.
RoMEO, JULIET, FACT and OpenDOAR will be offline between the hours of 6am to 6pm UK time on Saturday 11th July, in order for essential maintenance to be carried out at the Data Centre hosting our servers.
We apologize for any inconvenience that this causes.
A new article on OpenDOAR has recently been published:
Open-access repositories worldwide, 2005–2012: Past growth, current characteristics, and future possibilities, S Pinfield, J Salter, P Bath, B Hubbard, P Millington, JHS Anders & A Hussain, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Early View 28 APR 2014
Also available open access as the accepted version here: http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/76839/
“This paper reviews the worldwide growth of open-access (OA) repositories, December 2005 to December 2012, using data collected by the OpenDOAR project. It shows that initial repository development was focused on North America, Western Europe and Australasia, particularly the USA, UK, Germany and Australia. Soon after, Japan increased its repository numbers. Since 2010, other geographical areas and countries have seen repository growth, including East Asia (especially Taiwan), South America (especially Brazil) and Eastern Europe (especially Poland). During the whole period, countries such as France, Italy and Spain have maintained steady growth, whereas countries such as China and Russia have experienced relatively low levels of growth. Globally, repositories are predominantly institutional, multidisciplinary and English-language-based. They typically use open-source OAI-compliant repository software but remain immature in terms of explicit licensing arrangements. Whilst the size of repositories is difficult to assess accurately, the available data indicate that a small number of large repositories and a large number of small repositories make up the repository landscape. These trends and characteristics are analyzed using Innovation Diffusion Theory (IDT) building on previous studies. IDT is shown to provide a useful explanatory framework for understanding repository adoption at various levels: global, national, organizational and individual. Major factors affecting both the initial development of repositories and their take up by users are identified, including IT infrastructure, language, cultural factors, policy initiatives, awareness-raising activity and usage mandates. It is argued that mandates in particular are likely to play a crucial role in determining future repository development.”
It is that time of year again, when we all aim to take a well-earned day or two off work. As a result, SHERPA Services (RoMEO, JULIET, FACT and OpenDOAR) will be on reduced staffing from the 13th December 2013 until the 6th January 2014. All enquiries will be answered in due course.
In additional news, due to scheduled maintenance, there may be some disruption to SHERPA Services (RoMEO, JULIET, FACT and OpenDOAR) on the evening of Tuesday 17th December 2013. We apologise for any inconvenience that this causes.
We wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
We are glad to announce that several members of SHERPA Services staff will be attending and presenting at Open Repositories 2013, in Prince Edward Island, Canada next week.
Presentations by SHERPA Services include:
Peter Millington – Plenary: Compliance with Funders’ Mandates – FACT
Peter Millington – 24/7: Counting on OpenDOAR
Azhar Hussain – 24/7: An Investigation into Journal Research Data Policies: Lessons from the JoRD Project
Azhar Hussain – Poster: An Investigation into Journal Research Data Policies: Lessons from the JoRD Project
Further details of the conference schedule can be found here.
Please note that there may be a delay in replying to enquiries during the week of 8th-12th July.
We have recently updated the chart showing the growth and fate of OpenDOAR suggestions over time:
Suggestion Outcomes by Year for OpenDOAR
The overall annual number of suggestions has grown steadily, but the rejection rate has remained steady at about 22% of suggestions. There was a significant problem with spam during OpenDOAR’s first two years. We added spam blocking functions to the Suggestions form in 2007, which significantly reduced the amount of spam received, and which seems to be staying at a reassuringly low level.
See http://www.opendoar.org/suggestionschart.html for the chart full size and for further information on the various reasons for rejection.
Peter