#CEURWS (CEUR-WS.org) was started in 1995, seven years before the Budapest Declaration for Open Access. CEUR-WS was open-access, even diamond open-access from the very beginning. It used to be listed at Sherpa/Romeo as open-access until a few weeks ago, when it disappeared. I checked with the contact address of Sherpa. They said that all workshop and conference proceedings were de-listed from their catalog.

What is this good for? Many academics trust Sherpa as a source for open-access publications. Why are grassroot open-access publishers like #CEURWS de-listed or cannot be listed due to criteria that only well-founded publishers can fulfill, such as requiring DOIs,?

I am a bit frustrated. What do you think?

Manfred