[GOAL] Re: Retirement from SHERPA Services

[Jean-Claude Guédon]

It is certainly an opportunity to thank not only Peter, but the whole
Sherpa team for the extraordinary work they have done. The Sherpa list
has been of immense help in providing answers to people (or even
audiences) that expressed various forms of scepticism with regard to
Open Access, or that expressed worries about ways to implement the Green
Road. 

Many thanks, Peter, and your colleagues, for the great contribution to
an important element of the emerging structure for OA.

 And the best to you personally,

Jean-Claude


-- 
Jean-Claude Guédon 

Professeur titulaire
Littérature comparée
Université de Montréal




Le mardi 01 septembre 2015 à 15:58 +0000, Peter Millington a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> I will be retiring from SHERPA Services on the 6th September 2015. My
> email address will be deactivated on that date, and I will therefore
> be unsubscribing from this list. My last day in the office will be
> Thursday 3rd September.
> 
>  
> 
> I will be retaining an interest in open access, especially as my
> personal research will be even more reliant on it. I am particularly
> interested in how paywalls affect non-affiliated researchers.
> 
>  
> 
> I have been part of the SHERPA Services team for the past 9 years.
> While I did not create the original SHERPA/RoMEO and OpenDOAR, I was
> responsible for redeveloping and extending them. I am proud of my role
> in these services, as well as SHERPA/JULIET, SHERPA/FACT and the
> forthcoming SHERPA/REF, not to mention our other projects such as RSP.
> 
>  
> 
> SHERPA/RoMEO in particular continues to be heavily used by the open
> access community worldwide. Not many developers can say they developed
> an API that averages 200k requests per day. The SHERPA/RoMEO API
> peaked at 1.5m requests per day before we made download files
> available (http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/downloads/). I only wish I could
> have made more progress with our wish list of enhancements, but I have
> to leave something for my successors to do!
> 
>  
> 
> I would like to thank my colleagues both in the team and in the
> international open access community for their friendship and good
> company, not least at the annual Open Repositories and OAI
> conferences.
> 
>  
> 
> I wish you all well
> 
>  
> 
> Peter Millington
> 
>  
> 
> Retiring SHERPA Technical Development Officer
> 
> Centre for Research Communications
> 
> University of Nottingham, UK
> 
> 
> 
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