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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#454545;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">24 October 2019,</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#454545"> <strong><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">17:00
 for 17:30 – 19:30 SAST</span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#454545;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">ASSAf Presidential Roundtable: Science, Scholarship and Society on:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#454545"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<em><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#454545;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">‘Is Scholarly Publishing becoming Unaffordable?’ An Evidence-based Dialogue on the Implications of a European Plan S on South
 African Research </span></b></em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#454545"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#454545">In collaboration with <a href="https://library.sun.ac.za/en-za/Pages/Home.aspx"><span style="color:#E97202;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Stellenbosch University
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#454545">Launched in 2018, <span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"><a href="https://www.coalition-s.org/about/"><span style="color:#E97202">Plan S</span></a></span> is
 an initiative by <span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"><a href="https://www.scienceeurope.org/"><span style="color:#E97202">Science Europe</span></a></span> for Open Access publishing. The initiative that promotes making full and immediate
 Open Access a reality, has received much criticism of its implementation guidelines.  There is concern about the transition to this model amongst both commercial publishers and a range of learned society journal publishers. How should South African institutions
 address the implications of Plan S? What exactly will the potential impact be on researchers and institutional budgets? Will Plan S not just be replacing the barrier to read with a barrier to authorship? Through its panellists, the Roundtable will be one of
 many efforts to understand this contentious subject and the related issues.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#454545;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Date:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#454545"> 24 October 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#454545;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Time:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#454545"> 17:00 for 17:30
 – 19:30 SAST<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#454545;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Venue:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#454545"> JS Gericke Library
 Auditorium, Stellenbosch University, Victoria & Ryneveld Streets<br>
This event will be live streamed. Details to be provided closer to the time.<br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Moderator:</span></strong> Prof Jonathan Jansen, Distinguished Professor of Education, Stellenbosch University & President of the Academy of Science of South
 Africa (ASSAf)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#454545;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Register:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#454545"> <span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"><a href="https://forms.gle/UHarRau5edjNhq736"><span style="color:#E97202">Click
 here</span></a></span> to RSVP by 21 October 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#454545">Light refreshments will be served following the event.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Ina Smith</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)<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:#1F497D">1st Floor Block A, The Woods, 41 De Havilland Crescent, Persequor Park
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