About SHERPA
Mission | Partners | Affiliate Partners | Working with SHERPA | Staff | GovernanceMission
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The original SHERPA partnership was formed for the SHERPA project (2002-2006) and drew from research-led universities with an active interest in establishing an example of a then-new concept - an open access institutional repository. After a year, the original 7 development partners were joined by 6 more partners to form a partnership of 21 individual institutions. We now have 33 partners and affiliates overall, consisting of 32 HE institutions, and the British Library. SHERPA achieved its original goals ahead of schedule and within budget and has been an active presence on the developing field of institutional repository use. The partnership has now gone on to collaborate in a number of other open access projects. The partnership is a large and varied consortium and has within its
membership a range of examples of repository environments and institutional
structures. The partners are all research-led institutions, all with
practical experience of building and populating eprint repositories.
As such they are well placed to take full advantage of the facilities
that eprint repositories and extended-data repositories can offer. This
strong and varied consortial background offers the ideal environment
for exploring and testing ideas for repository development, which can
be evaluated and disseminated to the wider community. |
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Partners
SHERPA Partners
Affiliate Partners
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Consortium-Partner details
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Working with SHERPA
The SHERPA partner institutions are an existing consortium, with well established managerial support, communications and working practices. As such we are well placed to take advantage of our past work to launch into new areas of repository development. The range of projects and issues the partnership is addressing shows the depth of knowledge and experience that is being built.
The SHERPA partnership is a large, diverse and representative body of institutions. Partner institutions range from smaller specialised bodies such as SOAS, through to large, diverse Universities like Cambridge and Oxford. The partnership includes the British Library and the Arts and Humanities Development Service with their skills and experience in intellectual property rights, data preservation and collection management.
The partners are all research-led institutions, prominent in the research profile of the UK and are well placed to take full advantage of the facilities that eprint repositories and extended-data repositories can offer. While the majority of institutions use GNU EPrints, three partners use DSpace for their principle repositories and one uses an in-house system. SHERPA contains two consortial partners, who have different organisational structures. The White Rose Partnership shares a repository, along with joint advocacy, development and presentation. The London LEAP consortium takes advantage of joint technical working but presents seven different repositories to its end users, with individual development paths for the repositories themselves.
This strong and varied consortial background offers the ideal environment
for exploring and testing ideas for repository development.
Staff
Central Staff
Director, Manager, Repository Development Officer, Technical Development Officer, Services Development Officer, European Development Officers
Repository Officers
British Library, Birkbeck, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Durham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Goldsmiths, Imperial, ICR, Kings, Leeds, Newcastle, Nottingham, Oxford, Queen Mary , Royal Holloway, Sheffield, SAS, SOAS, SoP, UCL, York,
Governance
Day to day management of the project overall is by the SHERPA Manager, Bill Hubbard, based at the University of Nottingham. He liaises with other projects in the JISC Digital Repositories Programme, other interested institutions, organisations and initiatives. Enquiries and comments on the work of the project should be made to him in the first instance. He is supported by the Repository Development Officer, Dominic Tate, Technical Development Officer, Peter Millington and the Services Development Officer, Jane Smith.
SHERPA has two co-Directors, Stephen Pinfield and Chris Pressler, who both oversee the management of the project and ensure adherence to the strategic direction of the SHERPA Managent Group. They also maintain liaison with other interested institutions and scholarly bodies and represent the interests and management of the project at senior inter-institutional levels and within CURL.
Work at individual institutions is under the control of Repository Officers. Enquiries about project work at specific sites can be made to individual Repository Officers.
As part of the formal management structure of the SHERPA Project, a management group has been set up to oversee the development of the project and its adherence to its aims and objectives through regular meetings. Membership has been drawn from within the project and the HE community. The SHERPA Management Group (SMG) is chaired by Paul Ayris, Director of Library Services, UCL and Chair of the CURL Scholarly Communications Task Force.