University of Alberta Libraries Supports SCOSS Initiative

The University of Alberta Libraries continues to demonstrate its commitment to the success of open access by being the first institution to provide funding support for DOAJ and SHERPA/RoMEO as part of the SCOSS Initiative. The Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services aims to secure sustainability for open access and open source infrastructures. As a pilot, it is coordinating a funding program in support of DOAJ, a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals, and SHERPA/RoMEO, an online resource that aggregates and analyses publisher open access policies from around the world and provides summaries of self-archiving permissions and conditions of rights given to authors on a journal-by-journal basis.