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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.jisc.ac.uk/"><span style="color:#538132;background:white;text-decoration:none">Jisc</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white"> and </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.coar-repositories.org/"><span style="color:#538132;background:white;text-decoration:none">COAR</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white"> –
 along with regional networks </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.lareferencia.info/en/"><span style="color:#538132;background:white;text-decoration:none">LA Referencia</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white"> (Latin
 America), </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><a href="https://spaces.wacren.net/display/LIBSENSE/Home"><span style="color:#538132;background:white;text-decoration:none">LIBSENSE</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white"> (Africa)
 and </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.openaire.eu/"><span style="color:#538132;background:white;text-decoration:none">OpenAIRE</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white"> (Europe)
 – are calling on all repositories to update their records in OpenDOAR during this Open Access Week.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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https://www.coar-repositories.org/news-updates/a-global-call-for-opendoar-updates/</a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F3864"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)<br>
<a href="https://blog.doaj.org/2016/09/07/the-doaj-ambassadors-biographies/"><span style="color:#0563C1">DOAJ Ambassador, Southern Africa Region</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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