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Dear Colleagues in Scholarly Publishing,</div>
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Please see the many OA Week 2025 events registered on the OA Week page: </div>
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<a href="https://www.openaccessweek.org/events">https://www.openaccessweek.org/events</a> >> Location: Africa<br>
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Please also add your event by registering details at <a href="https://www.openaccessweek.org/events">
https://www.openaccessweek.org/events</a></div>
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Well done all with so many successful events in taking open access incl. Open science) forward towards an epistemic just and knowledge democratised world.</div>
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Kind regards,</div>
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Ina</div>
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<p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 12pt;" class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Planning Manager | Scholarly Publishing Programme<br>
Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)<br>
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<p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;" class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Senior Ambassador for Africa<br>
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)</span></p>
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<b><a style="margin: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="3" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="https://blog.doaj.org/2025/04/15/doaj-and-diamond-our-focus-for-2025/" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWAab3787c6-02ad-ff39-5c85-39af80b84c23" target="_blank" href="https://blog.doaj.org/2025/04/15/doaj-and-diamond-our-focus-for-2025/">DOAJ
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<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">ASSAf Switchboard: +27 12 349 6600 <br>
Whatsapp: +27(0)82 818 0117<br>
Email: </span><span style="color: rgb(31, 78, 121);"><a style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWAf4bc8130-4338-10fa-710c-0836ee3e427f" href="mailto:ina@assaf.org.za">ina@assaf.org.za</a> and
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ina@doaj.org</a> </span></div>
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