The Sherpa/Romeo API is officially going to be taken offline at the end of April, so in just a few days.  Existing API keys were migrated over to the new Open Policy Finder API.

For many years, we've been using Sherpa/Romeo to generate an "autocomplete" file that is used to display journal archiving policies right on the deposit interface, with links back to Sherpa/Romeo.  There are probably other IRs with that.

I have updated the script that I was using for that so that it is using the new JISC Open Policy Finder API.

The code is here:

https://github.com/photomedia/EPrintsOpenPolicyFinderAutocomplete

I was thinking, if there is interest in having this as a part of eprintsug, I can move it there.  It is currently under my own github.  Let me know.

The updated version is great because it uses the cache file and allows for much more efficient requesting as the "modified" date on each record is in the policy finder api can be relied on to fetch only the changed records.  This was not working well before in Sherpa/Romeo as those modified dates were not consistently there.

Tomasz

 

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Tomasz Neugebauer
Senior Librarian | Bibliothécaire titulaire
Digital Projects & Systems Development Librarian / Bibliothécaire des Projets Numériques & Développement de Systèmes
Concordia University / Université Concordia

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