[GOAL] Re: Retirement from SHERPA Services

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On 1 September 2015 at 16:58, Peter Millington <
Peter.Millington at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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 *Open*DOAR, 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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