<div dir="ltr">Dear Colleagues <div><br></div><div>The issue of the SA NETD portal was discussed at CHELSA during the SANLIC conference in 2019. We are still waiting to hear from CHELSA the way forward. My proposal is that one of the universities can host the SANETD server as part of CoP under CHELSA. As CHELSA affiliated Libraries (IR Managers, IT Managers) together with Prof Hussein Suleman lets discuss the way forward and revamp the NETD system. It is our clients who depend on the NETD portal. We need to think strategically about HEIs' repository networking and harvesting particularly now that COVID19 is forcing us to transition to online resources and services. </div><div><br></div><div>The NRF memorandum attached suggested it was no longer going to support the NETD platform as its priorities were changing. </div><div><br></div><div>Thank you Prof Suleman for supporting the NETD with limited resources on your hands. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards, <br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><br><div><table width="600" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium"><tbody><tr><th width="151" height="200" rowspan="3" scope="col"><p><img src="https://upnet.up.ac.za/images/GmailUPSignature.jpg" width="151" height="200"></p></th><th width="437" scope="col" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,104,162);text-align:left"><div align="left">Lazarus Matizirofa<br><span style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(0,91,170)">Deputy Director: Scholarly Communication, Digital Services & Systems </span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-weight:normal;color:rgb(0,91,170)"><br></span></div></th></tr><tr><td><p align="left" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;color:rgb(0,91,170)">Tel: <a value="+27124203007" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">+27 (0)12 420 2021</a>, Fax: <a href="tel:+27%2012%20362%205182" value="+27123625182" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">+27 (0)12 362 5182</a><br>Email: <a href="mailto:lazarus.matizirofa@up.ac.za" target="_blank">lazarus.matizirofa<font color="#1155cc">@up.ac.za</font></a><br>Web: <a href="http://www.up.ac.za" target="_blank"><font color="#1155cc">www.up.ac.z</font>a</a><br></p></td></tr><tr><td><p align="left" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;color:rgb(0,91,170)"><strong style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(0,104,162)">Department of Library Services</strong> <br>Room 4-26, Level 4, Merensky 2 Library<br>University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20<br>Hatfield 0028, South Africa</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 at 11:49, Ina Smith <<a href="mailto:Ina@assaf.org.za" target="_blank">Ina@assaf.org.za</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Faranah Osman</span></strong><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br>
Executive Director<br>
Information Technology & Knowledge Resources<br>
Tel: +27 12 481 4158<br>
Email: <a href="mailto:faranah.osman@nrf.ac.za" target="_blank">faranah.osman@nrf.ac.za</a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Kind regards<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Ina<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> IRTalk <<a href="mailto:irtalk-bounces@lists.lib.sun.ac.za" target="_blank">irtalk-bounces@lists.lib.sun.ac.za</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Van der Westhuizen, Ansie<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 25 August 2020 09:38<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:irtalk@lists.lib.sun.ac.za" target="_blank">irtalk@lists.lib.sun.ac.za</a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Mabena, Nomsa <<a href="mailto:mabenna@unisa.ac.za" target="_blank">mabenna@unisa.ac.za</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [IRTalk] National ETD Portal unavailable<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Dear Colleagues<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">We are unable to access the NETD Portal from Unisa’s side. Could anybody please advise us where we can report this problem.
We are getting the message below when trying to open the page:</span><b><span style="font-size:24pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:24pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Service Temporarily Unavailable<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance
downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu) Server at
<a href="http://www.netd.ac.za" target="_blank">www.netd.ac.za</a> Port 80<u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you for your valued input.<u></u><u></u></p>
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