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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Wow. What an achievement. SHERPA is the rock on which all our work has been built.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Much appreciation for your work, from laborers throughout the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">We could not have come this far without it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Paul Royster<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Coordinator of Scholarly Communications, UNL Libraries<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> goal-bounces@eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Peter Millington<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 1, 2015 10:58 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> goal@eprints.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [GOAL] Retirement from SHERPA Services<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">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/">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!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I wish you all well<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Peter Millington<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Retiring SHERPA Technical Development Officer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Centre for Research Communications<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">University of Nottingham, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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