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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Dear Lazarus<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><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>One can definitely see the impact of not using open standards/open sources software, which is part of the philosophy of open access. It had a huge impact on the UJ repository, which is unfortunate.<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><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Kind regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Ina<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 align=left style='text-align:left'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;letter-spacing:0pt'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;letter-spacing:0pt'> Lazarus Matizirofa [mailto:lazarus.matizirofa@nrf.ac.za] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 28, 2016 11:00 AM<br><b>To:</b> Ina Smith <Ina@assaf.org.za>; Hilton Gibson <hilton.gibson@gmail.com>; irtalk@lists.lib.sun.ac.za<br><b>Cc:</b> barries@uj.ac.za<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [IRTalk] SUNScholar/Ranking - Libopedia - July 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:0pt'>Dear Colleagues <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:0pt'>Congratulations to SA's OA frontrunners, well done Hilton. I acknowledged your team's work at the NRF's Centres of Excellence Managers' Forum which was hosted at Stellenbosch yesterday. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:0pt'>Something to note, UJ was number 6 or 7 last ranking. Its repository moved to another commercial OA platform suddenly it slipped to the 50s in the African repository rankings! <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:0pt'>Regards, <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:0pt'>Lazarus Matizirofa <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:0pt'>Knowledge Management Corporate <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:0pt'>National Research Foundation <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:0pt'>Sent from Samsung tablet<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:left'><span lang=EN-ZA style='letter-spacing:0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA><img width=211 height=73 style='width:2.1979in;height:.7604in' id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D1E8BF.88C7D450"><o:p></o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td width=137 valign=top style='width:103.1pt;border:solid white 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:0pt'>Meiring Naude Road</span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;letter-spacing:0pt'><br></span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:0pt'>Brummeria</span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;letter-spacing:0pt'><br></span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:0pt'>PO Box 2600</span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;letter-spacing:0pt'><br></span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:0pt'>Pretoria, 0001</span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;letter-spacing:0pt'><br></span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:0pt'>South Africa</span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;letter-spacing:0pt'><br></span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:0pt'><a href="http://www.nrf.ac.za/">http://www.nrf.ac.za</a></span><span style='letter-spacing:0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></td><td width=272 valign=top style='width:204.3pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid white 1.0pt;border-right:solid white 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td width="100%" style='width:100.0%;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:0pt'>Lazarus Matizirofa</span></strong><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:0pt'><br>Team Leader: DCCM<br>Knowledge Management Corporate (KMC)<br>Tel: +27 12 481 4016 <br>Email: <a href="mailto:lazarus.matizirofa@nrf.ac.za">lazarus.matizirofa@nrf.ac.za</a></span><span style='letter-spacing:0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><a href="http://www.nrf.ac.za/email-legal-notice.php">http://www.nrf.ac.za/email-legal-notice.php</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>-------- Original message -------- <br>From: Ina Smith <<a href="mailto:Ina@assaf.org.za">Ina@assaf.org.za</a>> <br>Date:27/07/2016 21:34 (GMT+02:00) <br>To: Hilton Gibson <<a href="mailto:hilton.gibson@gmail.com">hilton.gibson@gmail.com</a>>, <a href="mailto:irtalk@lists.lib.sun.ac.za">irtalk@lists.lib.sun.ac.za</a> <br>Subject: Re: [IRTalk] SUNScholar/Ranking - Libopedia - July 2016 <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Dear Hilton<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><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Thank you so much for continuing to document the rankings so that it can be monitored. This helps quite a bit. Hopefully we can also do this for repositories all over Africa. It is of great help when trying to monitor own IR progress made, and to influence institutional strategy and policy. The visibility of research via the IR in the end contributes to the overall visibility of an individual university.<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><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Congratulations to Stellenbosch University – 85 is the highest rank an African repository achieved this far. This is out of a total number of 2 271 internationally. The number of African repositories have grown quite a bit, and more and more they appear among the SA repositories, which is great. Slowly but surely Africa’s lost science is shared with the world, and is starting to have an impact, for others to benefit.<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><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Kind regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Ina<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><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><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> IRTalk [<a href="mailto:irtalk-bounces@lists.lib.sun.ac.za">mailto:irtalk-bounces@lists.lib.sun.ac.za</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Hilton Gibson<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 27, 2016 4:16 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:irtalk@lists.lib.sun.ac.za">irtalk@lists.lib.sun.ac.za</a>; <a href="mailto:fabteam@lists.lib.sun.ac.za">fabteam@lists.lib.sun.ac.za</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [IRTalk] SUNScholar/Ranking - Libopedia - July 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Hi All,</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>The July 2016 Webometrics ratings have been released.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>See: <a href="http://repositories.webometrics.info/en/Ranking_africa">http://repositories.webometrics.info/en/Ranking_africa</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>And: <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><a href="http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Ranking">http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Ranking</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Well done to those who achieved or improved their ranking!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Cheers<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>hg<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>