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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:#444444;background:white'>Work is underway to look at the viability of developing an Open Access Dashboard which would bring together information on open access (OA) outputs from a variety of sources in order to give institutions actionable insights on their OA activities. These data sources may include Sherpa services, Jisc Publications Router, Jisc Monitor, CORE, JUSP, and IRUS, but also the information held by institutions themselves. The project is being taken forward by<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><a href="http://www.research-consulting.com/"><span style='color:#9F9F9F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>Research Consulting</span></a><span style='color:#444444;background:white'>,<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><a href="https://www.pleiade.nl/"><span style='color:#9F9F9F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>Pleiade Management and Consultancy</span></a><span style='color:#444444;background:white'>, and<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><a href="https://digirati.com/"><span style='color:#9F9F9F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>Digirati</span></a><span style='color:#444444;background:white'>, who are now able to report on their first phase of activity.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#444444;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#444444;background:white'>Should you have any comments on this project, or if you would like to be kept in the loop, please get in touch with Sarah Fahmy (</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><a href="mailto:sarah.fahmy@jisc.ac.uk"><span style='color:#9F9F9F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>sarah.fahmy@jisc.ac.uk</span></a><span style='color:#444444;background:white'>) or Katie Shamash (</span><a href="mailto:katie.shamash@jisc.ac.uk"><span style='color:#9F9F9F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>katie.shamash@jisc.ac.uk</span></a><span style='color:#444444;background:white'>).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#444444;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><a href="https://scholarlycommunications.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2017/05/19/evaluating-the-options-for-an-open-access-dashboard/">https://scholarlycommunications.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2017/05/19/evaluating-the-options-for-an-open-access-dashboard/</a> <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 lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'>Ina Smith</span></b><span lang=EN-ZA 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 lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'>Project Manager: <a href="http://africanopenscience.org.za/"><span style='color:#0563C1'>African Open Science Platform</span></a> <br>Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)<br>DOAJ Ambassador, Southern Africa Region<br>LIASA Librarian of the Year 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA 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><a href="http://orcid.org/"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#338CAF;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=16 height=16 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.gif@01D2D151.1423C390" alt="http://orcid.org/sites/default/files/images/orcid_16x16(1).gif"></span></a><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'> <a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9710-3668"><span 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