<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)">
<!--[if !mso]><style>v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
.shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
</style><![endif]--><style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:"Century Gothic";
panose-1:2 11 5 2 2 2 2 2 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:#0563C1;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:#954F72;
text-decoration:underline;}
p
{mso-style-priority:99;
mso-margin-top-alt:auto;
margin-right:0cm;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:0cm;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;
color:#1F4E79;}
span.goldfarbenintro
{mso-style-name:goldfarbenintro;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}
@page WordSection1
{size:612.0pt 792.0pt;
margin:72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
/* List Definitions */
@list l0
{mso-list-id:822083888;
mso-list-template-ids:1461091394;}
@list l0:level1
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:\F0B7;
mso-level-tab-stop:36.0pt;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-18.0pt;
mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Symbol;}
@list l0:level2
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:\F0B7;
mso-level-tab-stop:72.0pt;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-18.0pt;
mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Symbol;}
@list l0:level3
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:\F0B7;
mso-level-tab-stop:108.0pt;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-18.0pt;
mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Symbol;}
@list l0:level4
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:\F0B7;
mso-level-tab-stop:144.0pt;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-18.0pt;
mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Symbol;}
@list l0:level5
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:\F0B7;
mso-level-tab-stop:180.0pt;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-18.0pt;
mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Symbol;}
@list l0:level6
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:\F0B7;
mso-level-tab-stop:216.0pt;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-18.0pt;
mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Symbol;}
@list l0:level7
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:\F0B7;
mso-level-tab-stop:252.0pt;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-18.0pt;
mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Symbol;}
@list l0:level8
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:\F0B7;
mso-level-tab-stop:288.0pt;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-18.0pt;
mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Symbol;}
@list l0:level9
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:\F0B7;
mso-level-tab-stop:324.0pt;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-18.0pt;
mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Symbol;}
ol
{margin-bottom:0cm;}
ul
{margin-bottom:0cm;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]-->
</head>
<body lang="EN-ZA" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72">
<div class="WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:18.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">About OA2020<br>
</span></b><span class="goldfarbenintro"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">OA2020 is a global initiative to propel open access forward </span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">by
fostering and inciting the transformation of today’s scholarly journals from the current subscription (paywall) system to new open access publishing models that enable unrestricted use and re-use of scholarly outputs and assure transparency and sustainability
of publishing costs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:18.0pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Even though Open Access is now a shared vision of the world’s academic communities, research councils, and funding bodies, nearly 85% of the world’s scholarly outputs are still
locked behind paywalls, inhibiting the full impact of research and putting enormous strain on institutional budgets.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:18.0pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">The new publishing initiatives and other efforts of the past twenty years have made some headway, but progress is slow. In order to finally make Open Access the default in scholarly
communications, we need a strategy that rapidly addresses the bulk of today’s scholarly journals. We cannot continue to sustain subscription price increases which monopolize institutional budgets, and we cannot wait any longer for the desired benefits of an
open information environment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Read an outline of the OA2020 approach in our </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#707070"><a href="https://oa2020.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/Open-Access-2020-Executive-Summary.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color:#D83C20;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Executive
Summary</span></a>.<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:18.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">Expression of Interest<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">If interested, please complete the following form:
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#707070;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA"><a href="https://oa2020.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/Expression%20of%20Interest%20with%20signform.pdf">https://oa2020.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/Expression%20of%20Interest%20with%20signform.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:18.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">Submit to
</span><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><a href="mailto:contact@oa2020.org?subject=OA2020%20Query%20or%20Comment"><span style="color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;background:white">contact@oa2020.org</span></a></span></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">
at the Max Planck Digital Library.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:18.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">-------------------------------------</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#707070;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:18.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">Building on the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities and on the progress that has been achieved so far, we
are pursuing the large-scale implementation of free online access to, and largely unrestricted use and re-use of scholarly research articles.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:18.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">We recognize and endorse various ways of implementing open access (OA), including the development of new OA publishing platforms, archives and repositories.
In scholarly journal publishing, OA has gained a substantial and increasing volume. Most journals, however, are still based on the subscription business model with its inherent deficiencies in terms of access, cost-efficiency, transparency, and restrictions
of use.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:18.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">To gain the full benefits of OA and enable a smooth, swift and scholarly oriented transition, the existing corpus of scholarly journals should be converted
from subscription to open access. Recent developments and studies indicate that this transition process can be realized within the framework of currently available resources.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:18.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">With this statement, we express our interest in establishing an international initiative for the OA transformation of scholarly journals, and we agree
upon the following key aspects:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-bottom:10.5pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">We aim to transform a majority of today’s scholarly journals from subscription to OA publishing in accordance with community-specific publication preferences.
At the same time, we continue to support new and improved forms of OA publishing.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-bottom:10.5pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">We will pursue this transformation process by converting resources currently spent on journal subscriptions into funds to support sustainable OA business models.
Accordingly, we intend to re-organize the underlying cash flows, to establish transparency with regard to costs and potential savings, and to adopt mechanisms to avoid undue publication barriers.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-bottom:10.5pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">We invite all parties involved in scholarly publishing, in particular universities, research institutions, funders, libraries, and publishers to collaborate on
a swift and efficient transition for the benefit of scholarship and society at large.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">Specific steps and milestones for the transformation process shall be outlined
in a roadmap to be further developed in the course of this initiative. We see the initiative as one element of a more profound evolution of the academic publishing system that will lead to major improvements in scholarly communication and research evaluation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">Ina Smith</span></b><span 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 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>
<a href="https://blog.doaj.org/2016/09/07/the-doaj-ambassadors-biographies/"><span style="color:#0563C1">DOAJ Ambassador, Southern Africa Region</span></a><br>
<a href="https://loy2016blog.wordpress.com/"><span style="color:#0563C1">LIASA Librarian of the Year 2016</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span 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;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="16" height="16" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.gif@01D4A693.4EF3F080" alt="http://orcid.org/sites/default/files/images/orcid_16x16(1).gif"></span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">
<a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9710-3668"><span style="color:#0563C1">http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9710-3668
</span></a></span><u><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0563C1;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span 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 style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">Switchboard: +27 12 349 6600
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">Tel: +27 12 349 6641
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">Fax: +27 (0) 86 576 9512<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">Email:
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA"><a href="mailto:ina@assaf.org.za"><span style="color:#0563C1">ina@assaf.org.za</span></a></span><span 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 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 style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA"><img border="0" width="184" height="75" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D4A693.4EF3F080" alt="assafemail"></span><span 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 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 style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">1st Floor Block A, The Woods, 41 De Havilland Crescent, Persequor Park
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">Meiring Naudé Road, Lynnwood 0020, Pretoria, South Africa.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span 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 style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">PO Box 72135, Lynnwood Ridge 0040, Pretoria, South Africa.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span 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" style="line-height:10.5pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">Website:
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA"><a href="http://www.assaf.org.za/"><span style="color:#0563C1">www.assaf.org.za</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F4E79;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
ASSAf Disclaimer: The views and opinions included in this email belong to their author and do not necessarily mirror the views and opinions of the organisation. Our employees are obliged not to make any defamatory statements, infringe, or authorise infringement
of any legal right. Therefore, the organisation will not accept any liability for such statements included in emails. In case of any damages or other liabilities arising, employees are fully responsible for the content of their emails.
</body>
</html>
<p></p>
-- <br />
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "African Open Science Platform" group.<br />
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to <a href="mailto:african-open-science-platform+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com">african-open-science-platform+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a>.<br />
To post to this group, send email to <a href="mailto:african-open-science-platform@googlegroups.com">african-open-science-platform@googlegroups.com</a>.<br />
To view this discussion on the web visit <a href="https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/african-open-science-platform/DB7PR04MB52905C88491078217DEB25899B890%40DB7PR04MB5290.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer">https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/african-open-science-platform/DB7PR04MB52905C88491078217DEB25899B890%40DB7PR04MB5290.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com</a>.<br />
For more options, visit <a href="https://groups.google.com/d/optout">https://groups.google.com/d/optout</a>.<br />