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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Great news, as this is exactly what is keeping us from progressing in OA in SA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Denise<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA"> Ina Smith
[mailto:Ina@assaf.org.za] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> 31 July 2015 09:54 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> irtalk@lists.lib.sun.ac.za; heligliasa@googlegroups.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Irtalk] Current status of OA policies in SA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">Dear Colleagues<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">The NMMU – on Monday – hosted an excellent Open Access Seminar. Congratulations to Mr Robert Pearce (Library Director) and
<span style="color:black">Ms </span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">Nomathongo Bell<b>
</b>(Deputy Director: Bibliographic Services Library and Information Services, NMMU) for a job well done, and we are looking forward to great progress in terms of OA at NMMU.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">A presentation on OA policies and the current state is available at
<a href="http://www.slideshare.net/inaviljoensmith/open-access-policy-driving-access-to-research-ina-smith">
http://www.slideshare.net/inaviljoensmith/open-access-policy-driving-access-to-research-ina-smith</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">UNESCO – during a consultative forum at the beginning of the year – invited countries to work with them on national OA policies for selected African countries. ASSAf
has indicated that they would like to participate with UNESCO in developing a national SA OA Policy (slides 29-30). A concept proposal has been drafted, and the Committee for Scholarly Publishing in South Africa (CSPiSA) (to which the ASSAf Scholarly Publishing
Unit reports), has approved this.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">This is a long and extensive process, but will keep you posted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">Kind regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">Ina<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">Ina Smith<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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