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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Dear Colleagues</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">With <a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/page/about" title="http://www.openaccessweek.org/page/about">
Open Access Week 2019</a> around the corner, it is maybe good to revisit how many high quality peer-reviewed Open Access journals are listed on the
<a href="https://doaj.org/" title="https://doaj.org/">Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)</a>. Journals not listed yet can apply for inclusion at <a href="https://doaj.org/application/new" id="LPlnk746377">https://doaj.org/application/new</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">196 of the journals listed on DOAJ are published in Africa. This from a total of 13 773 DOAJ listed OA journals published globally.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Please find the comprehensive list up to date, attached. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">To make the transition from print to online, consider the following:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">PKP Open Journal Systems: </span><a href="https://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/" id="LPlnk626719"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">https://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">ASS</span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Af best practice
in publishing OA journals: </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/assaf-scholarly-pub-resources/home" style="color: rgb(200, 72, 23); text-decoration: underline; outline: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">https://sites.google.com/view/assaf-scholarly-pub-resources/home</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">More about the ASSAf Scholarly Publishing Pro</span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">gramme: </span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://www.assaf.org.za/index.php/programmes/scholarly-publishing-programme"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif;">https://www.assaf.org.za/index.php/programmes/scholarly-publishing-programme</span></a><a href="https://www.assaf.org.za/index.php/programmes/scholarly-publishing-programme" id="LPlnk797553"></a><a href="https://www.assaf.org.za/index.php/programmes/scholarly-publishing-programme"></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif;">With kind regards</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif;">Ina (on behalf of ASSAf Colleagues)</span></div>
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