rchiveit is a Web tool to spread the awareness and the practice of self-archiving / green Open Access among scientists, especially those in Computer Science (Software Engineering and Information Systems).
Scientists input the name of the journal / proceedings book in a text box. rchive it employs SHERPA/RoMEO API to retrieve the relevant entry and to present it to the user.
What am I allowed to do with my scientific paper?
The first three squares of the 4+1 view of rchive it: the permissions given by the publisher.
The first three squares summarize what the scientist can do with the preprint, the postprint, and the publisher PDF of the scientific article. The permission is summarized with an icon (i.e., a Font Awesome) and a short sentence, which briefly states if the scientist is allowed to self-archive the paper.
The fourth and the +1 views of rchive it: the additional conditions under which the permissions are given and the additional information.
The fourth square provides the additional conditions that may be added by a publisher.
The fifth (+1) square provides links for additional information. The first link is always the SHERPA/RoMEO entry of the journal. The other links are mostly to copyright policies of the publisher.
Additionally, SHERPA/RoMEO has got an outdated, not responsive interface, that is instead provided by rchiveit.
rchiveit was indeed developed as a way to reinvent SHERPA/RoMEO.
Although rchiveit is live and running at http://rchive.it, everybody is free to obtain its source-code.
There are several ways to contribute to rchiveit.
Head to rchiveit GitHub page, clone and pull!
rchiveit welcomes all kind of contributions. Are you a frontend/JS developer? A backend/PHP coder? A UX expert? A graphics designer? An advocate of Open Access? A native English speaker? You are welcome.
rchiveit is Open-Source software, available on GitHub and released under the BSD 3-Clause License.