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<div>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. </div>
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<div>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! </div>
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<P CLASS="MsoNormal"><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="1">-------- Original message -------- <br>
From: Ina Smith <Ina@assaf.org.za> <br>
Date:27/07/2016 21:34 (GMT+02:00) <br>
To: Hilton Gibson <hilton.gibson@gmail.com>, irtalk@lists.lib.sun.ac.za <br>
Subject: Re: [IRTalk] SUNScholar/Ranking - Libopedia - July 2016 <br>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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 [mailto:irtalk-bounces@lists.lib.sun.ac.za]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Hilton Gibson<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 27, 2016 4:16 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> irtalk@lists.lib.sun.ac.za; fabteam@lists.lib.sun.ac.za<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [IRTalk] SUNScholar/Ranking - Libopedia - July 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hi All,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The July 2016 Webometrics ratings have been released.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<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>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">And: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<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>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<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>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Cheers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">hg<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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