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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> heligliasa@googlegroups.com [mailto:heligliasa@googlegroups.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Ingrid Thomson<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 4, 2016 12:04 PM<br><b>To:</b> heligliasa@googlegroups.com; liasaonline@googlegroups.com; africa-l@infoserv.inist.fr<br><b>Subject:</b> [heligliasa] Open Access Symposium 2016<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Colleagues<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The University of Cape Town Libraries, in collaboration with SPARC Africa, SPARC US and LIASA, is pleased to announce an Open Access Symposium in Cape Town, 3-9 December 2016.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The theme for the meeting is <i>Empowerment through open scholarship: transcending boundaries</i>. The theme exploits ‘openness’ to foster collaborative research activities and sharing that transcend the boundaries of resources and capacity, and brings researchers and readers into one global community. The openness discourse will centre around: open source; open access to scholarship; open data; open education resources; and open publishing. The most significant ‘take-away’ from the symposium is strategies for empowerment and strategies for innovation for the betterment of society.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The symposium will play host to a range of national and international experts on ‘open’.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The target audience for this meeting is librarians and information workers, researchers, funding agencies, LIS associations, university executives, LIS students and government officials.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The broad programme is as follows:<o:p></o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td width=162 valign=top style='width:121.25pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background:#BFBFBF;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Date<o:p></o:p></p></td><td width=462 valign=top style='width:346.25pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-left:none;background:#BFBFBF;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Event<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td width=162 valign=top style='width:121.25pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>3-4 December 2016<o:p></o:p></p></td><td width=462 valign=top style='width:346.25pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Workshop on OA tools – repository tools (e.g. DSpace) and publishing tools (e.g. OJS, OMP)<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td width=162 valign=top style='width:121.25pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>5 December 2016<o:p></o:p></p></td><td width=462 valign=top style='width:346.25pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>‘Africa connect’ – pre-symposium meeting<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td width=162 valign=top style='width:121.25pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>6 December 2016<o:p></o:p></p></td><td width=462 valign=top style='width:346.25pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>SPARC Africa strategic planning<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td width=162 valign=top style='width:121.25pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>7-9 December 2016<o:p></o:p></p></td><td width=462 valign=top style='width:346.25pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Symposium<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Venue: Cape Town, South Africa (more details to follow)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>As more details become available, it will be added to the symposium website: <span lang=EN-ZA><a href="http://www.openaccess.lib.uct.ac.za/open-access-symposium-2016"><span lang=EN-US>http://www.openaccess.lib.uct.ac.za/open-access-symposium-2016</span></a> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Enquiries can be directed to:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jill Claassen<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Email: <span lang=EN-ZA><a href="mailto:openuct@uct.ac.za"><span lang=EN-US>openuct@uct.ac.za</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tel: +27 21 650 1263<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>or<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jeremiah Pietersen<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Email: <span lang=EN-ZA><a href="mailto:Jeremiah.Pietersen@uct.ac.za"><span lang=EN-US>Jeremiah.Pietersen@uct.ac.za</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tel: +27 21 650 3728<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>Jeremiah (on behalf of the organizing committee)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA><a href="http://www.openaccess.lib.uct.ac.za/open-access-symposium-2016"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=816 height=159 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image003.png@01D17606.5328D000" alt="cid:image003.png@01D17606.5328D000"></span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:#212121'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Disclaimer - 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