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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Dear 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">We would like to share the two recent statements in support of Open Access to scientific research: the São Paulo Statement on Open Access and the Statement
by the Association of African Universities.<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">São Paulo Statement on Open Access<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.nrf.ac.za/media-room/news/s%C3%A3o-paulo-statement-open-access">https://www.nrf.ac.za/media-room/news/s%C3%A3o-paulo-statement-open-access</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">The representatives of African Open Science Platform, AmeLICA, cOAlition S, OA2020, and SciELO – five of the
major worldwide Open Access initiatives – met on 01 May 2019 during the annual meeting of the Global Research Council (GRC) in Sao Paulo. They are united in their common mission of making knowledge available and accessible wherever it can have the greatest
impact and help solve humanity’s challenges regardless of where it was produced.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">The combined effect of the five initiatives has generated a new momentum in the push towards universal, full
and immediate Open Access.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">The Five Initiatives jointly state
that:</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">They consider that scholarly and scientific knowledge is a global public good.
When generated by public funds, free access to it is a universal right.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">They share one common ultimate objective: providing universal, unrestricted,
and immediate Open Access to scholarly information, including use and re-use by humans and machines.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">They share the belief that this common goal can be achieved through a variety
of approaches.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">They will pursue points of alignment among their approaches and ways to co-operate
towards reaching the shared objective.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">They seek an active dialogue with all stakeholders, including researchers,
research funders, universities, libraries, publishers, learned societies, governments, and citizens to take into account the diversity of the global scholarly community</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">Let’s make Open Access a reality!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">Short Statement from the SG of the AAU on Open Access to all HEIs on the continent (Association of African
Universities)(in preparation of OA Week 2018)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.aau.org/2018/10/12/short-statement-from-the-sg-of-aau-on-open-access-to-all-heis-on-the-continent/">https://www.aau.org/2018/10/12/short-statement-from-the-sg-of-aau-on-open-access-to-all-heis-on-the-continent/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;font-weight:normal">Dear Colleague VCs, Rectors and Presidents of African HEI,</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Greetings from the Secretariat of the Association of African Universities. It’s with much pleasure that I write to you all. Once again, the month of October is upon us and it
is time to celebrate Open Access (OA).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">What is open Access?</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Free availability of research findings or knowledge on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts
of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint
on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.” (Budapest, Bethesda and Berlin Declarations)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Open Access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. OA is entirely compatible with peer review, and all the
major OA initiatives for scientific and scholarly literature insist on its importance. Just as authors of journal articles donate their labour, so do most journal editors and referees participating in peer review.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Whereas the internet has been very crucial in promoting access to knowledge, it will only be sustainable if software tools are interactive transparent, and content is openly
accessible and compatible with existing softwares. That way global representation and access to knowledge will be achieved. Its worthy to note that our mission of disseminating knowledge is only half complete if the information is not made widely and readily
available to society<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">At AAU and as a signatory to the OA declaration, We support the OA initiative. We strongly urge all of you to initiate policies that will give more visibility to your institutions
and the research findings you generate yearly. We urge you to adopt one or more of the following policies to support OA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Policies</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">* In hiring, promotion, and tenure, the university will give due weight to all peer-reviewed publications, regardless of price or medium.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">* faculty who publish articles must either (1) retain copyright and transfer only the right of first print and electronic publication, or (2) transfer copyright but retain the
right of postprint archiving.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">* Adopt policies encouraging or requiring faculty to fill the institutional archive with their research articles and preprints<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">* all theses and dissertations, upon acceptance, must be made openly accessible, for example, through the institutional repository or one of the multi-institutional OA archives
for theses and dissertations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">* all conferences hosted at your university will provide open access to their presentations or proceedings, even if the conference also chooses to publish them in a priced journal
or book. This is compatible with charging a registration fee for the conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">* all journals hosted or published by your university will either be OA or take steps to be friendlier to OA. For example, see the list of what journals can do.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">During the week of October 22 -28, We urge you all to support your institutional libraries to undertake activities (talk shows, exhibitions, seminars, advocacy shows) to educate
your faculty and students and empower them to support OA to research<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">There are lots of information on what can be done at the following links<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">1. What University managers can do to support and promote OA</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#666666"> <a href="http://api.ning.com/files/2kQ80O9g*OVDostTeugxnS74XL1DSVgjvgklcAEXs5UsuJE8i53vF3J61n-aDPnCy-XTX0e42D-kY4qHorNc0Vf7bGS62pwR/WhatUniversitiesandAdminCanDoA4.pdf"><span style="color:#271F5D;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">http://api.ning.com/files/2kQ80O9g*OVDostTeugxnS74XL1DSVgjvgklcAEXs5UsuJE8i53vF3J61n-aDPnCy-XTX0e42D-kY4qHorNc0Vf7bGS62pwR/WhatUniversitiesandAdminCanDoA4.pdf</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">I take this opportunity to encourage all faculty and University librarians to also visit the following links to learn of the activities to undertake to support and promote Open
Access.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">1. What Faculty can do to support and promote OA </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#666666"><a href="http://api.ning.com/files/zRFidZuXNPSiyVKVhJ40gWQ-uHZd4smwjFm0elVHTZDvWXKbY*8mAMPvwwaIAY6eC2kfO6hRxKs3kb7Ncf6FeB*VaQIOqbD-/Faculty"><span style="color:#271F5D;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">http://api.ning.com/files/zRFidZuXNPSiyVKVhJ40gWQ-uHZd4smwjFm0elVHTZDvWXKbY*8mAMPvwwaIAY6eC2kfO6hRxKs3kb7Ncf6FeB*VaQIOqbD-/Faculty</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">2. What University Librarians can do </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#666666"><a href="http://api.ning.com/files/h0siTHvWNEwQJ4abgSKYFNFew*NR0WyzDQB7Z7DPsN6eyuQwK7SO1Yjula8e4ZOpN5jDrB9X5veZs0V-yYFi3Pi6be4s7DAc/Librarians"><span style="color:#271F5D;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">http://api.ning.com/files/h0siTHvWNEwQJ4abgSKYFNFew*NR0WyzDQB7Z7DPsN6eyuQwK7SO1Yjula8e4ZOpN5jDrB9X5veZs0V-yYFi3Pi6be4s7DAc/Librarians</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">It is my prayer that as we celebrate OA for the year 2018 we will all begin to put in place policies that enable us to share our resources as a continent and collaborate in researching
and providing solutions for the advancement of the continent towards achieving sustainable growth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">I wish all successful OA celebrations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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