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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Dear African Open Science Platform Colleagues<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:black">Great to learn that there is more adoption for openness among researchers, and support for open access journals! For a list of trusted high quality open
 access journals, see the </span><a href="https://doaj.org/"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">.
 Editors can further explore using </span><a href="https://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">PKP OJS</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"> to host
 African journals (PKP OJS is open source software, and used by journals worldwide – code open for African developers to install and also contribute/give back to the community). It would be great to see African journals publishing and managing African research
 to address African problems and find African solutions, complemented by research done elsewhere in the world, and aligning with research elsewhere, in an online, open and transparent environment. PKP OJS also has a
</span><a href="https://dataverse.org/"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Dataverse</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"> Plugin to upload data sets in support of research
 articles – making the research data openly available for others to build on existing research, what
</span><a href="http://africanopenscience.org.za/"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">AOSP</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"> is further promoting.<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:black">In a
<a href="https://www.slideshare.net/AfricanOpenSciencePl/os-in-fp9jc-burgelman">presentation by Jean-Claude Burgelmann</a> on the implementation of a European Research Cloud (<a href="https://ec.europa.eu/info/news/eu-ministers-endorse-commissions-plans-research-cloud-2018-may-29_en">endorsed
 by EU Ministers</a>), one of the proposed actions included researchers being reimbursed for APCs when publishing in OA journals listed in DOAJ.<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:black">It is indeed interesting times, and very exciting to monitor progress in terms of openness throughout the research lifecycle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Scientists and subscription journals tussling for power/Fatima Arkin</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.scidev.net/global/publishing/feature/scientists-and-subscription-journals-tussling-for-power.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#0563C1">https://www.scidev.net/global/publishing/feature/scientists-and-subscription-journals-tussling-for-power.html</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:18.75pt;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">“A recent controversy triggers long-standing debate over subscription
 vs open- access journals. Fatima Arkin reports.</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
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<span style="background:white">Scientists are getting more and more interested in open-access journals. They see the advantages: more citations of their work, and a favourable eye from </span></span><a href="https://www.scidev.net/global/communication/publishing/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#E10000;background:white;text-decoration:none">publishers</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">,
 especially those based in Europe, who face political pressure to veer towards open access.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
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<span style="background:white">But two years shy of a deadline set by the European Union to make all publicly funded scientific papers in the region open-access, some publishers continue to introduce new subscription-based journals — and in the process, face
 pushback from the global scientific community.”</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Ina Smith</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Project Manager:
</span><a href="http://africanopenscience.org.za/"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#0563C1">African Open Science Platform</span></a><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">
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Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)<br>
</span><a href="https://blog.doaj.org/2016/09/07/the-doaj-ambassadors-biographies/"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#0563C1">DOAJ Ambassador, Southern Africa Region</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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