[GOAL] Re: Retirement from SHERPA Services

[Paul Royster]

Wow. What an achievement. SHERPA is the rock on which all our work has been built.
Much appreciation for your work, from laborers throughout the world.
We could not have come this far without it.

Paul Royster
Coordinator of Scholarly Communications, UNL Libraries
proyster at unl.edu<mailto:proyster at unl.edu>
http://digitalcommons.unl.edu

From: goal-bounces at eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org] On Behalf Of Peter Millington
Sent: Tuesday, September 1, 2015 10:58 AM
To: goal at eprints.org
Subject: [GOAL] Retirement from SHERPA Services

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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