{"id":932,"date":"2015-07-07T08:45:22","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T08:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/open-access\/?p=932"},"modified":"2015-07-17T10:26:17","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T10:26:17","slug":"accurate-sherpafact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/open-access\/accurate-sherpafact\/","title":{"rendered":"How accurate is SHERPA\/FACT?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/open-access\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2015\/07\/sherpafact.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-933\" alt=\"sherpafact\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/open-access\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2015\/07\/sherpafact-300x60.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"60\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/open-access\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2015\/07\/sherpafact-300x60.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/open-access\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2015\/07\/sherpafact-320x64.jpg 320w, https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/open-access\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2015\/07\/sherpafact-240x48.jpg 240w, https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/open-access\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2015\/07\/sherpafact.jpg 416w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Well, the answer is that <a title=\"SHERPA\/FACT\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sherpa.ac.uk\/fact\/\" target=\"_blank\">SHERPA\/FACT <\/a>is more than 95% accurate at checking publisher&#8217;s policies against <a title=\"Funders page on the open access blog\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/open-access\/decisiontree\/funding\/\" target=\"_blank\">funders <\/a>open access requirements. A recent study by the SHERPA\/FACT advisory group compared the results achieved when using SHERPA\/FACT with results when manually checking each policy. The manual checks were made by a group of members of <a title=\"UKCoRR website\" href=\"http:\/\/ukcorr.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">UKCoRR<\/a> (United Kingdom Council of Research Repositories). Discrepancies between the two sets of results were checked by the SHERPA\/FACT advisory group. They found that SHERPA\/FACT was almost 100% correct whereas manual checking achieved a 57% accuracy rate. This should provide good evidence to researchers of the accuracy of SHERPA\/FACT and demonstrate the benefits of using the online tool. To read more about the study, <a title=\"SHERPA\/FACT advisory group study\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jisc.ac.uk\/news\/researchers-offered-95-accuracy-on-publisher-open-access-policies-02-jul-2015?utm_content=buffere49cd&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the answer is that SHERPA\/FACT is more than 95% accurate at checking publisher&#8217;s policies against funders open access requirements. A recent study by the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,10,85,86],"tags":[34,101,35,45],"class_list":["post-932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funder-requirements","category-green-route","category-publisher-policies","category-sherpa","tag-funder","tag-jisc","tag-publisher","tag-sherpafact"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How accurate is SHERPA\/FACT?  - Open Access @ Edinburgh Napier<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"JISC blog post comparing accuracy of SHERPA\/FACT with manual checking of funder requirements with publisher&#039;s restrictions\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/open-access\/accurate-sherpafact\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How accurate is SHERPA\/FACT? 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