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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Save the Date for Open Repositories 2020<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">The Open Repositories Steering Committee and Stellenbosch University is delighted to announce that the 15th Open Repositories Conference will be held in Stellenbosch, South Africa, from 1-4 June 2020. The conference
will be organised by Stellenbosch University Library and Information Service who looks forward to welcoming delegates to the first Open Repositories Conference (OR) on the African continent.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">Link to online version of this text: <a href="http://or2020.sun.ac.za/">
http://or2020.sun.ac.za/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">Stellenbosch University, located in the historical town of Stellenbosch, approximately 50 km from Cape Town, strives to be Africa’s leading research-intensive university, globally recognised as excellent, inclusive
and innovative where knowledge is advanced in service of society.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">The Library and Information Service has been playing an active role in the African and international Open Access community for a number of years and one of its strategic objectives is to develop and maintain collaborative
relationships with a range of external and internal stakeholders by advancing local, national and international initiatives with regards to open scholarship.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">Having chosen Stellenbosch as the venue, the annual OR Conference continues its objective to bring practitioners working at the interface of technology and scholarship together. Participants at OR come from higher
education, government, libraries, archives and museums to share their experiences and knowledge about repository infrastructure, tools, services, and policies. We hope you will join us in Stellenbosch in 2020!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">For the local organizing committee:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">Ellen Tise & Mimi Seyffert-Wirth<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">Stellenbosch University Library and Information Service<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:mseyf@sun.ac.za">mseyf@sun.ac.za</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">For the Open Repositories Steering Committee:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">Elin Stangeland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">University of Oslo Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:elin.stangeland@ub.uio.no">elin.stangeland@ub.uio.no</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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