IRTalk -- This is a discussion list to discuss, communicate, share information on all open access and institutional repositories related issues in Africa and South Africa
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General Open Access, Open Scholarship, Open Journals, Open Conferences, Open institutional repositories, Open source, Open Science, Open Data, Digital Curation, Digital Preservation, Digitization and other related topics. To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the IRTalk Archives.
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