SHERPA-LEAP

It’s been a whirl of different projects over the last six months, with the working groups starting up, MERLIN moving forward and other new collaborations on the horizon. One of the research projects I have undertaken explored overlay journals, specifically in the context of the Repository Interface for Overlaid Journal Archives ( RIOJA ) project. Based [...]

A new guide to funder mandates has been prepared, and is available to anyone who would like to adapt it for their own institution. UCL have adopted it, and their version is available  here. The brief was to create a simple, easy guide for researchers to a) finding out if they are covered by a mandate [...]

The most recent consortium meeting was held at UCL on the 15th of April. We began by welcoming some new members to the group – Ashley Cousins, from the Institute of Cancer Research and Briony Fane and Bethan Adams from St George’s University of London. ICR were members of LEAP a while ago, but fell [...]

And welcome back to work – I hope you all had a great break. It’s looking like this January’s going to be a busy one. I’m finishing off a couple of reports and we have the media and the theses working group meetings next week. At the end of the month, there’s the  MERLIN project steering [...]

On the 28th and 29th of October, I attended a joint workshop, organised by the National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM) and UKOLN in Manchester, on Text Mining for Scholarly Communications and Repositories. Text mining achieves something which I think is quite unusual. It manages to be both fiendishly technical (operating somewhere between computer science, [...]

If you want to:

Add a published version to a preprint in your archive
Set an embargo
Add or remove the ‘request a copy’ button and contact details

Then check out this screencast from Richard Davis showing you exactly how to do it.

Just to say again what a pleasure it was to see so many of you yesterday. Thanks for all your input and suggestions, and a special thank you to the speakers for the afternoon – four very interesting presentations and a lot to think about. Thanks again to Beth at SOAS for providing the venue [...]

OAI6 was held at the University of Geneva from the 17th to the 19th of June 2009. The SHERPA-LEAP consortium was one of the sponsors of this event, and the three days of plenary sessions, tutorials and breakout groups were well attended, with 227 delegates from 3 continents. Sessions were grouped by themes, with three or [...]

The REF: Results of pilot and future developments. Organised by King’s College London, 15th June, 2009. I attended the one day REF event at Imperial College, and have prepared this report from the event for members of the LEAP community who are interested. The headlines are: •  The REF will combine peer review with some bibliometrics – the [...]

Firstly, I’d just like to say that it was a pleasure to get to speak to so many of you at this RSP event. For those of you who were there but to whom I didn’t manage to introduce myself: apologies – I’ll catch up with you soon. If you were there on Friday, you [...]