SHERPA (organisation)
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SHERPA is a project team, originally set up in 2002 to run and manage the SHERPA Project.
based in UK universities. SHERPA, the organisation, is sometimes erroneously referred to as the SHERPA Project. SHERPA is managed by Bill Hubbard.
As well as a staff team based at the University of Nottingham
, 33 research institutions and organisations comprise the SHERPA Partnership. The makeup of this partnership includes many if not all of the most research active and significant institutions in the UK and provide practitioner led experience to the project team.
History
This was an endeavour to support the establishment of a number of open access institutional repositoriesInstitutional repository
An Institutional repository is an online locus for collecting, preserving, and disseminating - in digital form - the intellectual output of an institution, particularly a research institution....
based in UK universities. SHERPA, the organisation, is sometimes erroneously referred to as the SHERPA Project. SHERPA is managed by Bill Hubbard.
As well as a staff team based at the University of Nottingham
University of Nottingham
The University of Nottingham is a public research university based in Nottingham, United Kingdom, with further campuses in Ningbo, China and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia...
, 33 research institutions and organisations comprise the SHERPA Partnership. The makeup of this partnership includes many if not all of the most research active and significant institutions in the UK and provide practitioner led experience to the project team.
Awards
SHERPA’s work in supporting open access and repositories on a nationals and international level was recognised in 2007 with the award of the SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly CommunicationCurrent Projects & Services
SHERPA is involved as a full or advisory partner in a number of projects and services, which include currently.- Repositories Support ProjectRepositories Support ProjectThe Repository Support Project is a currently funded project from the JISC, set up to support and develop the UK network of institutional repositories. It was oringally funded through to March 2009, but was then extended to run until early 2011...
(RSP) - support service for UK repository growth - SHERPA/RoMEO – definitive listing publishers' copyright agreements & retained author rights
- JULIET - Research Funders Archiving Mandates and Guidelines
- OpenDOAR - a directory and tool for worldwide open access repositories
- the Depot – UK based interim repository (stemming from the PROSPERO project)
- DRIVER (Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European ResearchDigital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European ResearchThe Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research project aims to provide a unified approach to manage the challenging and evolving Digitial Repository landscape by building an online infrastructure for sharing content and functionality.Many valuable online repositories such as...
) - developing a cross-European repository network infrastructure
Past Projects
- EThOS - developing a national eTheses service
- SHERPA Project - which helped develop archives in research-led institutions
- SHERPA Plus - expanding the repository network in the UK
- SHERPA DP - looking at preservation models
- PROSPERO - scoping an interim repository for UK academics
- UKCoRR - United Kingdom Council of Research Repositories, professional organisation for UK Open Access repository administrators and managers. An output from SHERPA Plus.