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SHERPA, lead institution: Nottingham University, will build e-archives at six UK universities: Edinburgh, Glasgow, Oxford, Nottingham, York, Leeds and Sheffield, plus the BL.
Seek post-prints in first instance and create a source of peer-reviewed material to convince academics that e-print repositories contain quality literature. Encourage academics to publish in journals as well as posting their work in the e-repository. Needs publisher support and cooperation, involves copyright issue, will assist academics to negotiate with publishers to self-archive.
E-Prints UK, Resource Discovery Network, King's College London � plans to develop a national service through which the collective output of e-print papers available from repositories in UK universities and colleges can be freely accessed. Using Citebase, e-archives are OAI compliant
TARDIS, Southampton University, looking at �the technical, cultural and academic barriers�, which might restrict the development of institutional eprint archives.
ROMEO, investigating copyright solutions to some of the problems facing the 'self-archiving' initiative, has created a survey asking for academic authors' views on copyright and self-archiving. (request to publicise it sent to Lis-Scitech in October).
