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”. SHERPA receives funding from a number of
organisations including JISC and is involved in “investigating issues in the
future of scholarly communication. It is developing open-access institutional
repositories in a number of research universities to facilitate the rapid and
efficient worldwide dissemination of research. (http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/)