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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Dear Colleagues<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D">News from the NRF<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The National Research Foundation recently released an important statement on Open Access to Research Publications from the NRF-funded research.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The statement declares that from 1 March 2015 “</span><span lang="EN" style="color:#1F4E79">authors of research papers generated from research either fully or partially funded by NRF, when submitting and publishing
 in academic journals, should deposit their final peer-reviewed manuscripts that have been accepted by the journals, to the administering Institution Repository with an embargo period of no more than 12 months”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="color:#1F4E79">Read the full statement here:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.nrf.ac.za/media-room/news/statement-open-access-research-publications-national-research-foundation-nrf-funded">http://www.nrf.ac.za/media-room/news/statement-open-access-research-publications-national-research-foundation-nrf-funded</a><b><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">Paulette Talliard<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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