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<div dir="ltr"><b><i><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'">South African Journal of Science<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></b><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'">takes
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'">The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>South African Journal of Science,</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>which has been fully open access
since last year, has taken its next major step – moving to an online publishing platform.</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'">The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>South African Journal of Science<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>title<i>,</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in
its 106<sup>th</sup><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>year of existence, is now owned by the Academy of Science of South Africa and hosted by AOSIS, OpenJournals Publishing.</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'">OpenJournals Publishing, an independent publisher of scholarly journals, provides an open source publishing system and support, as well as manuscript management.
The platform provides for online manuscript submissions and tracking, promising faster turnaround times and streamlined processes. Journal archives will also be available online.</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'">The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>South African Journal of Science<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>website, with a completely transformed
look, will be re-released to incorporate the new functionality on Friday 19 March 2010. Published articles will be openly accessible online in PDF, HTML and XML formats at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.sajs.co.za" target="_blank"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'">www.sajs.co.za</span></a></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'">.</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'">According to publisher Prof Pierre de Villiers from AOSIS, the journal will also be making South African history insofar as he knows, being the first South African
scholarly journal to be published in all three formats at the same time. ” In particular the XML publishing will push the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>South African Journal of Science</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>content
to the forefront of accessibility through internet searches, which holds positive implications for its future impact measurements” he says.</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'">After a manuscript is submitted via the online interface of the new website, it follows the normal editorial route of all peer-reviewed journals, through editors
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'">After copy-editing, each article is sent to design for layout. However, whereas in the past, this finished article would have been published only as a part of a complete
collection in a specific issue of the journal, the article will now be available online immediately after it has gone through the process. As articles become available online, they will be collated and await print in the next hard copy edition of the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>South
African Journal of Science</i>. This eliminates any delays between the article as a finished product and its accessibility to interested readers.</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"></span></p>
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As collective resource, the Academy enables the generation of evidence-based solutions to national problems.</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"></span></p>
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human capital and an increased use of the country’s best intellectual expertise in generating evidence-based policy advice that is practical and feasible.</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"></span></p>
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