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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-ZA link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Colleagues<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Apart from the role of research librarians to assist researchers with data management planning (from the DCC workshop presented by LIASA last year), it is important for research librarians to know and understand how data curation works. See <a href="http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/create-manage/life-cycle">http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/create-manage/life-cycle</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Also – following the NRF Open Access Statement where funded researchers are required to deposit data sets – research librarians should be able to recommend possible data set repositories to researchers.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Many SA institutions are doing great work in this regard already! It would be great to learn more about what is going on where! Please share with us, so that we can make the information centrally available for all to learn from. Many thanks!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Kind regards<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ina<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#002060;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'>Ina Smith<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#002060;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'>Planning Manager - Scholarly Publishing Unit<br></span><i><span style='color:#525252;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'>(previously Open Scholarship Manager, Stellenbosch University – until 30 September 2014)</span></i><span style='color:#002060;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#002060;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'><a href="http://www.assaf.org.za/"><span style='color:#0563C1'>Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:middle'><span style='color:#002060;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'>1<sup>st</sup> Floor Block A, The Woods<br>41 De Havilland Crescent, Meiring Naudé Road<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:middle'><span style='color:#002060;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'>Pretoria, South Africa, 0020<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='color:#002060;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'><a href="https://www.google.co.za/maps/place/De+Havilland+Cres,+Pretoria,+0020/@-25.7453694,28.2727997,18z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x1e9560424c7df843:0x13cba2579ff86323?hl=en"><span style='color:#0563C1'>-25.746092, 28.274414</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'>Tel.: +27 12 349 6641<br>E-mail: <a href="mailto:ina@assaf.org.za"><span style='color:#0563C1'>ina@assaf.org.za</span></a></span><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'><img border=0 width=378 height=94 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D0362B.ECE441A0" alt=ASSAf><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>