<div dir="ltr">These highly referenced guidelines are targeted at academic institutions in developing countries world wide, who want to start an open access research repository and who want to know in detail what is required and how to do it step-by-step.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">
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