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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">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:#1F4E79">A brief narrative version of the
<a href="https://www.slideshare.net/AfricanOpenSciencePl/african-open-science-platform-pilot-study-and-landscape-findings">
AOSP presentation</a> delivered during the AOSP Delivery Phase Meeting on 2 September 2019 in Egypt is now available as a blog post. It contains a few selected findings, with a focus on scholarly publishing – also to better understand the environment in which
 research is published. <a href="https://blog.doaj.org/2019/10/11/guest-post-overview-of-the-african-open-access-landscape-with-a-focus-on-scholarly-publishing/">
Click here to read</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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