<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">FYI.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><font face="monospace, monospace">Hilton Gibson</font></b></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:12.8000001907349px">Stellenbosch University Library</span><br></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"><font color="#0000ee"><u><a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2992-208X" target="_blank">http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2992-208X</a></u></font><br></font></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Anna De Mutiis</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:am131@soas.ac.uk">am131@soas.ac.uk</a>></span><br>Date: 1 July 2016 at 12:09<br>Subject: Questionnaire for digital repositories managers - from the International African Institute<br>To: Anna De Mutiis <<a href="mailto:am131@soas.ac.uk">am131@soas.ac.uk</a>><br>Cc: Stephanie Kitchen <<a href="mailto:sk111@soas.ac.uk">sk111@soas.ac.uk</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Dear Repository Manager,</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Greetings from the International African Institute (IAI), London. As a learned society working with the Centre of African Studies (CAS), both housed within the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), we are compiling some resources on repositories from Africa. See</span><a href="http://www.internationalafricaninstitute.org/repositories.html" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">http://www.internationalafricaninstitute.org/repositories.html</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">This is the first stage of a project to learn about and promote such repositories as part of our services to Africa’s research communities.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">To learn more about the current situation of repositories in the African continent and across the area of African studies, we are distributing a short questionnaire as follows below.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">We would welcome your responses to these questions, and any additional points you may raise. If you would be willing to respond to a longer questionnaire, please fill in our on-line questionnaire here:</span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://esurv.org/?u=MappingRepositoriesInAfrica" target="_blank">https://eSurv.org?u=MappingRepositoriesInAfrica</a>. If you prefer to receive a off-line version of the longer questionnaire please reply and we will send this to you.<br><br>We are contacting a number of repositories and will prepare a report of our findings around May time. We will be happy to share these with you.<br><br>We would be very thankful if you could submit your responses by the 3rd of August.<br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><i style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="FR">Please be assured that we will handle any confidential data sensitively, and if necessary can anonymise or aggregate this in general terms. We can discuss any concerns individually.</span></i><br><br>If by any chance you are not the administrator of the digital repository, could you please forward this email to the appropriate contact or let us know?<br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Thanks in advance for your time and best wishes,<br><br>Stephanie Kitchen, Managing Editor, IAI, <a href="mailto:sk111@soas.ac.uk" target="_blank">sk111@soas.ac.uk</a><br><br>Anna De Mutiis, Executive Officer, CAS, <a href="mailto:am131@soas.ac.uk" target="_blank">am131@soas.ac.uk</a><br>__________________________________________________________<br><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Questionnaire - Short version<br><br><ol><li style="margin-left:15px">How many items does your repository hold?<br><br></li><li style="margin-left:15px">Does your institution or repository have an Open Access policy or require the deposit of its members’ publications or theses?<br><br></li><li style="margin-left:15px">Does you repository offer an OAI-PMH interface as an international standard (a pre-requisite for it to be included in aggregators). Is the repository registered with ROAR <a href="http://roar.eprints.org/" target="_blank">http://roar.eprints.org/</a>, OpenDOAR or harvested by Connecting Africa (<a href="http://www.connecting-africa.net/index.htm" target="_blank">http://www.connecting-africa.net/index.htm</a>)?<br><br></li><li style="margin-left:15px">What are the main difficulties you face?<br><br></li><li style="margin-left:15px">How do you judge the support of academic staff and/or your institution for the repository?</li></ol><div><br></div><div>All the best,</div><div><br></div></div><div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000">Anna De Mutiis</font></span></div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000">Executive Officer<br>Centre of African Studies<br>SOAS - University of London<br>Tel:</font></span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8px"> <a href="tel:%2B44%20%280%29%20207%20898%204370" value="+442078984370" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">+44 (0) 207 898 4370</a></span><span style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><br></span><a href="http://www.soas.ac.uk/cas" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:12.8px" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,104,207)">www.soas.ac.uk/cas</span></a><br></div></div></div>
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