OA Registries: ROAR, ROARMAP and ROMEO

[Stevan Harnad <harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk>]

Here are three (lately re-named) OA Registries that we hope the OA
community will find useful (and will use!):

     (1) ROAR is the Registry of Open Access Repositories:
     http://archives.eprints.org/

If your institution has an OA repository (Archive) (OA IR) please 
register it in ROAR. The growth of your IR's contents will then 
be tracked by ROAR, which will allow you to generate many 
valuable comparative statistics and analyses on OA growth 
worldwide. (There are currently 312 institutional IRs registered 
in ROAR, along with 63 cross-institutional [subject-based] 
archives and 63 thesis archives.) Creator of ROAR: Tim Brody, 
Eprints, Southampton University. http://www.eprints.org/

See also ROAR's sister project, OpenDOAR: 
http://www.opendoar.org/

     (2) ROARMAP is the Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving
     Policies:
     http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/

If your institution has an OA IR *and* an OA self-archiving 
policy (whether a recommended one or a required one) please 
register and describe your institution's policy in ROARMAP. This 
will provide a model and help hasten the adoption of OA 
self-archiving policies by other institutions. 
http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/sign.php

Signatories of the Berlin Declaration especially are encouraged to
register their OA policies.
http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/signatories.html
as are signatories of
Budapest Open Access Initiative
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/view.cfm
as well as the signatories of the PLoS Open Letter
http://www.plos.org/cgi-bin/plosSigned.pl

     (3) The ROMEO Journal/Publisher Self-Archiving Policy Directory
     http://romeo.eprints.org/

The Eprints/ROMEO version of this Directory codes journals' and 
publishers' policies on author self-archiving as "green" (93%) or 
"gray": Currently, 68% of the registered journals are fully green 
(i.e., they endorse postprint self-archiving), 25% are pale-green 
(i.e., they endorse preprint self-archiving) and 7% are (green 
light to self-archive the refereed postprint are gray (7%). 
Self-Archiving of postprints and preprints.

Eprints/Romeo is fed by SHERPA/ROMEO, which is where publishers 
are invited to register their policies: 
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php

Stevan Harnad