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Hi Lynn</div>
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The response I got on inquiry:</div>
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of</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
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and Higher Education have already approved and circulated the</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
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to all Universities but they didn't yet make it publicly</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
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Hope ,they will make it openly available soon.</span><br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Lynn Woolfrey <lynn.woolfrey@uct.ac.za><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 7, 2019 11:00 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Ina Smith <Ina@assaf.org.za>; african-open-science-platform@googlegroups.com <african-open-science-platform@googlegroups.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: Congratulations to Ethiopia on their Open Access Policy!</font>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Hello Ina – this looks promising. Do you have a link to the actual policy document? It is not provided in the blog, as far as I can see.</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">Regards</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">Lynn</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style=""> african-open-science-platform@googlegroups.com <african-open-science-platform@googlegroups.com>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Ina Smith<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 07 October 2019 10:43 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> african-open-science-platform@googlegroups.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Congratulations to Ethiopia on their Open Access Policy!</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif; color:#545454; background:#FAFAFA">A new national open access policy will transform research and education in Ethiopia – and now the work begins, writes EIFL guest
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