Jisc launches new platform: platform: Open Policy Finder

Jisc has combined the three Sherpa Services, Sherpa Fact, Sherpa Romeo and Sherpa Juliet, into a single platform with a new name, Open Policy Finder (Openpolicyfinder.jisc.ac.uk). 

The new platform will help authors and institutions make informed and confident decisions on open access publication and compliance via a single streamlined and user-friendly interface.  

Open policy finder’s web platform and open application programming interface (API) will provide a seamless user experience, ensuring that its comprehensive, world-leading datasets are easily accessible.  

The new platform will allow users to:  

• Check if compliance with funder open access policies can be achieved with a particular journal;

• Get a summary of publishers' open access archiving conditions for individual journals and books; and 

• To see funders’ conditions for open access publication.

Sherpa was first established in 2006, with the aim of solving the challenge posed by fragmented information on publisher open access and self-archiving policies, and funder open access policy requirements, by providing standardised data on all of them.   

The new platform aims to continue this mission by simplifying the user experience and making it even easier to access the information users need.  

Jisc’s director of product – research management, Liz Bal, said: “Sherpa services are a vital part of the administration of open research, and we’re delighted to launch this new, combined platform to make it even easier for users worldwide to access the information they need and make informed choices quickly and confidently. The new platform represents an important milestone in our mission to enhance efficiency and streamline research management processes.” 

The Open policy finder team will launch the new platform at a webinar on Thursday November 7 at 2pm. Visit the event page to sign up to attend.