<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">Thanks for the information, Leti.  I wonder whether the Cambridge-based project has pulled on <a href="http://ahero.uwc.ac.za"><b>African Higher Education Research Online (AHERO</b>)</a>.  This was the first Africa-based disciplinary OA repository and began collecting papers back in 2005.  It remains active and is managed by a PhD student at the Institute of Post-School Studies at University of the Western Cape.  It has nearly 1,000 research papers focusing on policy, institutional affairs and teaching and learning case studies from African HEIs.  </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">Now a little clunky, and in need of a panel-beating, this platform has served many thousands of papers over the years!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">Regards<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">Allison</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 8:38 AM, Dr Leti Kleyn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Leti@assaf.org.za" target="_blank">Leti@assaf.org.za</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">





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