[GOAL] {Disarmed} Re: Re: Retirement from SHERPA Services

Wed Sep 2 11:38:37 BST 2015

Thank you very much for this trove of very useful data.

Kind regards,

On 2 September 2015 at 11:51, Nicolas Pettiaux <nicolas at pettiaux.be> wrote:

> Dear Mr Milington,
>
> I am new to this list. I am not as new to the idea of OA. Thanks to your
> mail I have discovered what you (and the whole SHERPA team) have done,
> because you have pointed my attention to it.
>
> Thanks to the answers to your mail, and especially the one of Jean-Claude
> Guédon whom I have known personnally for years (and I have seen face to
> face less than one month ago), I know a bit more.
>
> I want to thank you very much, Mr Millington, for what you have done and
> provided us. I want to thank you also for the contribution you have made to
> make the world a little more humanistic (or more than a little), and for
> giving us hope to goforward and follow your tracks.
>
> And I want to take this opportunity to thank all the people on this list
> who are everyday doing a little to make the world a better place to live.
>
> I wish you the best personnally Mr Millington, as a young retired who
> will, I don't doubt, fill his live with many other contributions to a
> better world.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Nicolas Pettiaux
>
> Le 2015-09-01 18:26, Jean-Claude Guédon a écrit :
>
> 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 *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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