The document summarizes a presentation given by Gareth Johnson from the SHERPA team about scholarly communication, open access, and repositories. It discusses how SHERPA supports the development of open access repositories in the UK and Europe. It also outlines the benefits of open access, including increased citations and readership, and how authors can comply with publishers' policies by depositing works in institutional repositories.

1. Scholarly Communication, Open Access & Repositories Research Cafe, School of Nursing University of Nottingham November 24 th 2006 Gareth J Johnson SHERPA Repository Development Officer SHERPA, Greenfield Medical Library, University of Nottingham [email_address]

4. Partner Institutions

5. Core SHERPA Team Manager Bill Hubbard Director Stephen Pinfield Repository Development Officer Gareth Johnson Services Development Officer Jane H Smith Technical Development Officer Peter Millington European Development Officers Sophia Jones & Mary Robinson Repositories Support Project Officers 2 TBA

12. Traditional Process & OA Author writes paper Submits to journal Paper refereed Revised by author Author submits final version Published in journal Research Deposits in open access repository Preprint Postprint Conference papers Learning objects Theses Data, images, information etc

14. S/RoMEO Record 192 publishers listed to-date Equates to over 10,000 journals

16. S/JULIET Record