<div dir="ltr">Thanks for your work in developing REF - it's now an essential part of the repository manager's tookit.<div>All the best in your retirement.</div><div>Rowena</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Rowena Rouse</div><div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Scholarly Communications Manager</div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Find out more about<a href="http://www.brookes.ac.uk/library/research/resopen.html" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"> Open Access and what it means for you.</a></div><br><b>Want to be part of the next REF? </b><b>Paper accepted for publication?</b></div><div>Logon to the CRIS: <a href="http://www.brookes.ac.uk/go/cris" target="_blank">www.brookes.ac.uk/go/cris</a> ,go to your publications and add basic details about your paper, Find out more at : <a href="http://www.brookes.ac.uk/library/research/resopen.html" target="_blank">www.brookes.ac.uk/library/research/resopen.html</a> Note to be part of the next REF, we need the accepted version of your paper around the date that you have it accepted. Establishing good practice now but this will be mandatory from <b>April 2017</b>.</div><div><br></div><div><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#444444"><span style="line-height:21.8500003814697px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(207,226,243)">Find out more about our JISC OA Pathfinder project - <a href="http://sensemakingopenaccess.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">‘Understanding researcher behaviours through sensemaking for better OA engagement’ </a> working with Nottingham Trent University and University of Portsmouth</span></font><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#444444"><span style="line-height:21.8500003814697px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(207,226,243)"><br></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><img src="http://www.brookes.ac.uk/library/images/oa_bookmark.png"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/items/3bcbb6b9-f6fb-4fee-8bf6-cac6c3c3ed9d/1/" target="_blank">Download the bookmark</a> or <a href="mailto:openaccess@brookes.ac.uk" target="_blank">request one</a><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#444444"><span style="line-height:21.8500003814697px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(207,226,243)"><br></span></font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p></div><div><a href="http://www.brookes.ac.uk/go/radar" target="_blank"></a></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><a href="http://www.brookes.ac.uk/go/radar/" target="_blank">www.brookes.ac.uk/go/radar/</a></b></div><div><div>The Library, Oxford Brookes University<br></div><div><br>e: <a href="mailto:rrouse@brookes.ac.uk" target="_blank">rrouse@brookes.ac.uk</a><br>t: (+44)1865 48(5085)<font size="2"><br>working: Mon Weds Thurs, Fri</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 1 September 2015 at 16:58, Peter Millington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Peter.Millington@nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">Peter.Millington@nottingham.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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!<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I wish you all well<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Peter Millington<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Retiring SHERPA Technical Development Officer<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Centre for Research Communications<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">University of Nottingham, UK<u></u><u></u></p>
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