Research Tools: “Sherpa Services Combined Into New User-Friendly Platform: Open Policy Finder; Will Help Authors and Institutions Make Informed and Confident Decisions on Open Access Publication and Compliance”

From a JISC Announcement:

We have combined the three Sherpa services, Sherpa Fact, Sherpa Romeo and Sherpa Juliet, into a single platform with a new name, open policy finder.

The new platform will help authors and institutions make informed and confident decisions on open access publication and compliance via a single streamlined and user-friendly interface.

Open policy finder’s web platform and open application programming interface (API) will provide a seamless user experience, ensuring that its comprehensive, world-leading datasets are easily accessible.

The new platform will allow users to:

• Check if compliance with funder open access policies can be achieved with a particular journal
• Get a summary of publishers’ open access archiving conditions for individual journals and books
• To see funders’ conditions for open access publication

Sherpa was first established in 2006, with the aim of solving the challenge posed by fragmented information on publisher open access and self-archiving policies, and funder open access policy requirements, by providing standardised data on all of them.

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The open policy finder team will launch the new platform at a webinar on Thursday November 7 at 2pm. Visit the event page to sign up to attend.

Learn More, Read the Complete Announcement

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