Talk prepared for the Nursing & Medical School, University of Nottingham Feb 2007 giving an overview of open access and repositories.

1. Moments of Transition The Global Open Access Debate & Institutional Repositories for Researchers Research Open Day, University of Nottingham 20 th February 2007 Gareth J Johnson SHERPA Repository Development Officer SHERPA, Greenfield Medical Library, University of Nottingham [email_address]

3. Who are SHERPA? 1

5. Exeter (Affiliate)

9. Why is Open Access Such a Key Issue? 2

14. 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

15. The Global Open Access Movement 3

17. Repository Locations

18. Repository Types

23. What Institutional Repositories does Nottingham support? 4

29. What Tools are Available to Help Authors? 5

32. S/RoMEO Record 237 publishers listed to-date Equates to over 15,000 journals

33. SHERPA/JULIET Record