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Berlin 10 Open Access Conference, Stellenbosch, South Africa</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:maroon">CONFERENCE THEME ANNOUNCEMENT</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As announced previously, the Berlin 10 Open Access Conference will be held at Stellenbosch, South Africa. The Conference will be held at the Wallenberg Research Centre, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) from 7-8 November
2012. Pre-conference workshops will be held on 6 November. The theme of the Conference is
<b><i><span style="color:maroon">Networked scholarship in a networked world: participation in Open Access</span></i></b>. Given that the Conference will be held in Africa, the sub-themes to be explored are concomitant with the development and transformative
agenda of Open Access. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The sub-themes are:<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="color:windowtext">Transformation through Open Access</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="color:windowtext">Open Access and other forms of openness</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="color:windowtext">Benefits of Open Access for scholarship and wider society</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="color:windowtext">Open Access and improving assessment of research and scholarly publishing</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="color:windowtext">Networked scholarship</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.sun.ac.za/" target="_blank">Stellenbosch University</a>, in partnership with the
<a href="http://www.mpg.de/en" target="_blank">Max Planck Society</a><span style="color:#1F497D">
</span>and other hosts, has the distinct pleasure of inviting policy and ‘funding’ communities, scientists and researchers and librarians to the<span style="color:#1F497D">
</span><a href="http://oa.mpg.de/lang/en-uk/berlin-prozess/berlin-konferenzen/" target="_blank">Berlin 10 Open Access Conference</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Please take note of the following</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:maroon">Call</span><span style="color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="color:maroon">to Actio</span><span style="color:#953735">n</span><span style="color:maroon">!</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We would like to call on all institutions supporting opening access to research information to also sign the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities. Please visit
<a href="http://www.berlin10.org/call-to-action.html">http://www.berlin10.org/call-to-action.html</a> for more information.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:maroon">Registration</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Registrations for both the conference and pre-conference workshops will open on the 31st of July 2012.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:maroon">Stay in touch!</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please stay in touch and follow all activities around the Berlin 10 Open Access Conference by joining us on
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/Berlin10SouthAfrica">facebook</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/Berlin10SA/">
twitter</a>, or through subscribing to our <a href="http://lists.lib.sun.ac.za/mailman/listinfo/berlin10">
newsletter</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="line-height:21.6pt"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Other relevant information will become available in forthcoming announcements which will also be available on the conference website (</span></strong><a href="http://www.berlin10.org"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">www.berlin10.org</span></b></a><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">).</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
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