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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-ZA link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:19.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#454545'>SPARC Africa: capacitating Africa towards access to Open Scholarship<o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:11.25pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#454545'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>ˇ<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#454545'>Posted by<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/profile/JillClaassen"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#E97202;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>Jill Claassen</span></a><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>on October 19, 2015 at 10:18am<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:11.25pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#454545'><a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/sparc-africa-capacitating-africa-towards-access-to-open" id=send-message-link>http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/sparc-africa-capacitating-africa-towards-access-to-open</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.65pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#454545'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.65pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#454545'>In response to the portentous need of access to scholarly content by the African research community, an additional<a href="http://www.sparc.arl.org/"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#E97202;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>SPARC</span></a><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Chapter,<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><b><i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#454545;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>SPARC Africa,</span></i></b><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#454545'> </span></span><span style='font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#454545'>has been established and was launched at the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) Academic and Research Libraries (ARL) Satellite meeting on the 14</span><sup><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#454545;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>th</span></sup><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#454545'> </span></span><span style='font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#454545'>August 2015. The Chapter’s primary focus will be to capacitate Africans in academic and research sectors to champion free access to scientific knowledge as a means to alleviate Africa’s lack of access scholarly content. SPARC Africa invites membership from academic and research institutions, library and information profession associations, funding bodies, student representative organisations and parastatal organisations located within Africa.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.65pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline: 0px;min-height: 1em'><span style='font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#454545'><br>SPARC Africa will prioritise creating a development forum, which will assist with capacity building and infrastructure to open up the African continent’s scholarly output; making it accessible and discoverable for the international community. The Chapter will create this developmental forum, by tapping into the Ubuntu nature, which is an African meaning, 'humanity to others'.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:13.65pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline: 0px;min-height: 1em'><span style='font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#454545'>This forum seeks to achieve, a) development of training programmes to address open access activities, for example, the creation and management of repositories and publishing, b) adoption of relevant open source software and the development of a support base for the optimal utilization of such software; and c) promotion of the exchange of ideas and experience among members. The organisation also aims to establish global collaborative efforts by co-operating with international groups and organizations (such as SPARC) in the advancement of open access.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.65pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline: 0px;min-height: 1em'><a href="http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/lib/open-access-week-2015" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#E97202;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=83 height=129 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D10A9A.0B72A880" alt="http://api.ning.com/files/1zNsEY*-CrL9ZctnIEYPxT8HYYIZeYgbfJr0xHS4jfgHINwap6H8yDhsNlmAi8zUKH6aBKIL9TdX94dyQT*02btTRnPM20r*/Lockfinal.jpg?width=83"></span></a><span style='font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#454545'>The Library and Information Association of South Africa (<a href="http://www.liasa.org.za/"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#E97202;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>LIASA</span></a>) has made a commitment to offer infrastructure and support for the formative years of SPARC Africa.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.65pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline: 0px;min-height: 1em'><span style='font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#454545'>During the International Open Access Week 2015, the<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.uct.ac.za/"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#E97202;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>University of Cape Town</span></a><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>intends to launch SPARC Africa as a declaration of its commitment to SPARC Africa’s agenda at its institution. SPARC Africa also extends an invitation for other African institutions to express an interest in joining the Chapter during Open Access Week 2015.<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"'><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><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'>SciELO Planning Manager<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'>Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'>LIASA Exco Portfolio ICT Development (2014-2016)<br>LIASA HELIG Chair (2014-2016)</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'>Switchboard: +27 12 349 6600 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'>Tel: +27 12 349 6641 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'>Fax: +27 (0) 86 576 9512<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'>Email: <a href="mailto:ina@assaf.org.za"><span style='color:#0563C1'>ina@assaf.org.za</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'><img border=0 width=560 height=139 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D10A9A.0B72A880" alt="Logo+slogan"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'>1st Floor Block A, The Woods, 41 De Havilland Crescent, Persequor Park <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'>Meiring Naudé Road, Lynnwood 0020, Pretoria, South Africa. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'>PO Box 72135, Lynnwood Ridge 0040, Pretoria, South Africa. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'>Website: <a href="http://www.assaf.org.za/"><span style='color:blue'>www.assaf.org.za</span></a><i> </i></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>