Please be advised that transfer of Sherpa services to the Jisc Cloud Platform has been scheduled for the morning of Wednesday 2nd December.

Services affected: RoMEO, Juliet, FACT and OpenDOAR

It is expected that the disruption will only be for several minutes, however the service should be regarded as at risk all morning.

Please contact Sherpa Support at: sherpa@jisc.ac.uk if you require further information or require support at any time.

Please be advised that transfer of Sherpa services to the Jisc Cloud Platform has been scheduled for the morning of Wednesday 2nd December.

Services affected: RoMEO, Juliet, FACT and OpenDOAR

It is expected that the disruption will only be for several minutes, however the service should be regarded as at risk all morning.

Please contact Sherpa Support at: sherpa@jisc.ac.uk if you require further information or require support at any time.

The CRC says Goodbye and a Happy Retirement to Peter Millington.

Peter has been our Technical Development Officer since early 2006 and has been instrumental and fundamental to the design, growth, development and maintenance of the SHERPA Services run from here at the CRC at the University. These services, RoMEO, JULIET, OpenDOAR, FACT and the forthcoming REF system, are used and appreciated around the world, and take very high levels of use – (RoMEO’s API gets about 250,000 uses per day) – and at very high accuracy, which is a testament to Peter’s professionalism and abilities.

Bill Hubbard wishing Peter the best, looked on by current and former CRC staff members

In addition, through his work at the CRC, Peter has contributed to some of the most prominent and influential Open Access initiatives and projects of the last decade, in particular the national RSP support project and the international DRIVER initiative.

Peter receiving his gifts

Peter has always been far more than a technical development person. With a PhD and an active publication record in folklore, with a background in information science and experience in the commercial world, Peter has been able to bring to bear different perspectives to every problem, every analysis and design decision, which have been invaluable and have guided the services through to their current enviable reputation.

We are very sad to see Peter go, but wish him all the very best in what promises to be an active and packed retirement.

RoMEO, RoMEO! Wherefore art thou RoMEO?…err., because of Peter

Bill, Azhar, Jane, Alison and Tom

The CRC says Goodbye and a Happy Retirement to Peter Millington.

Peter has been our Technical Development Officer since early 2006 and has been instrumental and fundamental to the design, growth, development and maintenance of the SHERPA Services run from here at the CRC at the University. These services, RoMEO, JULIET, OpenDOAR, FACT and the forthcoming REF system, are used and appreciated around the world, and take very high levels of use – (RoMEO’s API gets about 250,000 uses per day) – and at very high accuracy, which is a testament to Peter’s professionalism and abilities.

Bill Hubbard wishing Peter the best, looked on by current and former CRC staff members

In addition, through his work at the CRC, Peter has contributed to some of the most prominent and influential Open Access initiatives and projects of the last decade, in particular the national RSP support project and the international DRIVER initiative.

Peter receiving his gifts

Peter has always been far more than a technical development person. With a PhD and an active publication record in folklore, with a background in information science and experience in the commercial world, Peter has been able to bring to bear different perspectives to every problem, every analysis and design decision, which have been invaluable and have guided the services through to their current enviable reputation.

We are very sad to see Peter go, but wish him all the very best in what promises to be an active and packed retirement.

RoMEO, RoMEO! Wherefore art thou RoMEO?…err., because of Peter

Bill, Azhar, Jane, Alison and Tom

The role will be responsible for the analysis, design and development of new digital scholarly communications services for Jisc customers, along with the maintenance and enhancement of an existing portfolio of services (SHERPA RoMEO, SHERPA JULIET, OpenDOAR, SHERPA FACT).

The key purpose of the role will be to develop and maintain digital services with a particular focus on:

• Modern application architectures in response to use cases supporting emerging open access developments
• Institutional repository use and analysis
• Providing technical advice and support for UK higher education institutions in the understanding and implementation of new and existing services

Further information and details on how to apply can be found here

The role will be responsible for the analysis, design and development of new digital scholarly communications services for Jisc customers, along with the maintenance and enhancement of an existing portfolio of services (SHERPA RoMEO, SHERPA JULIET, OpenDOAR, SHERPA FACT).

The key purpose of the role will be to develop and maintain digital services with a particular focus on:

• Modern application architectures in response to use cases supporting emerging open access developments
• Institutional repository use and analysis
• Providing technical advice and support for UK higher education institutions in the understanding and implementation of new and existing services

Further information and details on how to apply can be found here

RoMEO, JULIET, FACT and OpenDOAR will be offline between the hours of 6am to 6pm UK time on Saturday 11th July, in order for essential maintenance to be carried out at the Data Centre hosting our servers.

We apologize for any inconvenience that this causes.