<div dir="ltr">Dear Peter,<div><br></div><div>What you've achieved with SHERPA remains a mainstay for global Open Access services and support. Thank you and all the very best for the future. </div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Garret McMahon</div><div>University College Dublin</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 1 September 2015 at 17:26, Jean-Claude Guédon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jean.claude.guedon@umontreal.ca" target="_blank">jean.claude.guedon@umontreal.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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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. <br>
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Many thanks, Peter, and your colleagues, for the great contribution to an important element of the emerging structure for OA.<br>
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Le mardi 01 septembre 2015 à 15:58 +0000, Peter Millington a écrit :
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Hi,<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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I have been part of the SHERPA Services team for the past 9 years. While I did not create the original SHERPA/RoMEO and <i>Open</i>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.<br>
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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 (<a href="http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/downloads/" target="_blank">http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/downloads/</a>). 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!<br>
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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.<br>
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I wish you all well<br>
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Peter Millington<br>
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Retiring SHERPA Technical Development Officer<br>
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