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A previous survey request was sent with a word document. The survey is now available on our services web site for easy completion and accurate data collection.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">You are welcome to complete this version of the survey.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">If you have completed the word document survey and wish to replace it with this online version, then please send an email to Ina Smith (<a href="mailto:ismith@sun.ac.za">ismith@sun.ac.za</a>) and inform her that you have completed the online version and not to take into account the word document version.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">A copy of the survey request email is listed below.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="courier new, monospace">Dear Colleague</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="courier new, monospace">The emerging BRICS countries stand for an increasing part of the global research and development activities. Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa represent almost half of the world’s population, their GDP is nearly 30% of the world’s economy, and their scientific output represents a growing part of the international scientometric databases such as the Web of Science or SCOPUS.</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="courier new, monospace">SA’s economic situation, academic system, higher education and research are in some instances different from the other BRICS as well as developed countries. Also, each country develops different models of academic publishing for the dissemination of their research results. These models, even if partly integrated into the international market of scientific and technical information, reflect specific situations and strategies often not well known in the Western world.</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="courier new, monospace">We have been invited to contribute a chapter in a book, of which the value proposal is to provide the above information and to close a gap in scientific literature on academic publishing. The reason is twofold: not only will the BRICS countries share a growing part of the international STI market (for their own scientists but also for authors from other countries), but they provide interesting and alternative options for this market, too.</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style><font face="courier new, monospace"> </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="courier new, monospace">We would like to kindly invite you to help establish the current status of research dissemination and the protection of our local content in South Africa through completing an online survey. It should take maximum 30 minutes. Your identity will not be made public, and the results will be used for academic purposes only. The survey has to be completed by 10 June 2014.</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style><font face="courier new, monospace">Our sincere thanks for your willingness and time,</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style>
<font face="courier new, monospace">Mrs Ina Smith</font></div><br></div></div>