About
Launched:
2002
Record Updated:
Apr 18, 2024
Open access policy information compilation
Sherpa Services is a set of online products that operate by aggregating and presenting standardised summaries of publisher, journal and funder open access policies from around the world. Every registered publisher, journal and funder held in Sherpa Services is carefully reviewed and analysed by our specialist team who provide a central focal point of up-to-date information on open access requirements of funders' policies and their requirements on open access, publication and data archiving and self-archiving permissions and conditions of rights available to authors on a journal-by-journal basis.
OpenDOAR is the quality-assured, global Directory of Open Access Repositories. You can search and browse through thousands of registered repositories based on a range of features, such as location, software or type of material held.
Mission
Sherpa Services - Helping authors and institutions to make informed and confident decisions in open access publication and compliance.
OpenDOAR - The world’s authoritative and quality-assured directory of open access repositories.
Key Achievements
Sherpa services and OpenDOAR have over the years grown in terms of data in these directories. Currently the Sherpa collection holds data on 3,503 global publisher OA policies; including data on 28,000 journal OA policies; includes data on 178 major global funders OA policy requirements and OpenDOAR holds data on 5,868 global institutional repositories supporting global aggregation efforts of aggregating articles from global IRs. Access to this data is free and will always remain free to all, via a recently upgraded web UI and API. Our data is used to prime global initiatives aimed at helping authors and institutions make informed and confident decisions in open access publication, compliance and in increasing aggregation of OA material along with tracking the growth of global institutional repositories.