***Apologises for Cross-Posting*

SHERPA Services’ is excited to announce the launch of an upgraded version of
SHERPA RoMEO (www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo) as part of ongoing improvements to the
SHERPA RoMEO service.

The new version contains significant additions and improvements to RoMEO,
and now provides:

*Increased Journal Coverage:*

SHERPA-RoMEO now has its own Journals database containing over 18000
journals including many titles not covered by the other lists we use -
Zetoc, the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and ENTREZ

*More up to Date:*

The new SHERPA RoMEO Journals database is faster than other lists in
responding to new titles and journals that change publishers



*More Accurate Journal Level Searching:*

The new journals database means that RoMEO identifies rights holders more
accurately, especially where a commercial publisher is publishing on behalf
of a society



*More Search Options:*

In addition to searching for journals by title or ISSNs and publisher names,
an advanced search option lets users search for publishers’ by RoMEO colour,
RoMEO ID and RoMEO update date



*Electronic ISSNs:*

RoMEO now holds data on electronic ISSN’s in addition to print ISSN’s and
users can search for both using the ISSN search field



*Faster Performance:*

Technical upgrades have made many features work faster than before

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*About SHERPA-RoMEO ***

SHERPA-RoMEO uses a simple colour-code classification to simplify complex
publisher and journal policy information and provides impartial, easy to
follow and accurate guidance on permissions and conditions of rights given
to authors by journal publishers.

SHERPA-RoMEO offers users the ability to:

·         View summaries of publishers' and journal copyright policies in
relation to self-archiving

·         View if publisher and journal policies comply with research funder
archiving policies, mandates and guidelines

·         To search journal and publisher information by Journal Title,
Publisher Name, ISSN and eSSN

Additionally, SHERPA-RoMEO provides lists of

·         Publishers that allow the use of their PDFs in Institutional
Repositories

·         Publisher with Paid Options

SHERPA-RoMEO is seen as an essential resource by many in the Open Access
community.

This development work is funded by JISC <http://www.jisc.ac.uk/>. Journal
information is kindly provided by the British Library's
Zetoc<http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/>service hosted by MIMAS, the Directory
of Open Access Journals (
DOAJ <http://www.doaj.org/>) hosted by Lund University Libraries, and the
Entrez <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/citmatch_help.html#JournalLists>journal
list hosted by the NCBI.

*About SHERPA Services’*

SHERPA Services’ are based at the Centre for Research
Communications<http://crc.nottingham.ac.uk/>,
University of Nottingham and maintain on behalf of the open access community
a portfolio of services: RoMEO <http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/>,
JULIET<http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/>and
OpenDOAR <http://www.opendoar.org/>.

The Centre for Research
Communications<http://crc.nottingham.ac.uk/index.php>(CRC) was formed
in April 2009, to help to support and inform the changes
and new ideas in the way that research is communicated around the world. The
CRC houses a portfolio of open access projects and initiatives currently
undertaken by the University of Nottingham.

OpenDOAR

http://www.opendoar.org/



RoMEO

http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo



JULIET

http://www/sherpa.ac.uk/juliet



JISC

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/



*For all enquiries regarding RoMEO please contact:
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*15th August 2011*



Jane H Smith

SHERPA Services Development Officer


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