Institutional repositories
A guide to open electronic archives
Latest Developments
Up one level- SHERPA Receives SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications, 2007
- SHERPA honoured in recognition of their advocacy for the adoption of institutional repositories and their development of a suite of tools in support of Open Access
- SPARC Europe and DRIVER agree to closer collaboration
- SPARC Europe and DRIVER to cooperation in order to progress and enhance the provision, visibility and application of European research outputs through digital repositories.
- European Commission launches open access pilot
- EC pilot to give OA to results from approximatley 20% of FP7 projects - especially in health, energy, environment, social sciences and information and communication technologies.
- Welsh Repository Network (WRN) launch
- Project to create a network of twelve repositories across Wales
- Significant New Deposit Mandates Announced
- New mandates requiring researchers to make their papers available in open access have been announced in Belgium, Norway, and the UK