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<span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Dear list,</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">I'm happy to let you know that
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/" title="http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Knowledge
Exchange</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> (KE) has published a new report "<a href="http://bit.ly/acceleratingscholcomms" title="http://bit.ly/acceleratingscholcomms">Accelerating scholarly communication
- The transformative role of preprints</a>". The report reflects on the place of preprints in the scholarly communication process. Preprints are tentatively defined as versions of research papers typically prior to peer review and publication in a journal.
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<p style="margin-bottom:14.25pt;line-height:15.75pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">In addition, to an extensive literature review,
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">we interviewed 38 stakeholders including
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">researchers, research performing organisations, research funding organisations and preprint servers/ service providers</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">to investigate among others the following questions:
</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:14.25pt;line-height:15.75pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">What are the main benefits and challenges of preprints for these stakeholders? How is trust established and what role does twitter play
in the preprint landscape? Who will be responsible for preprint posting in the future? Do traditional journals have to reframe their value proposition in the light of preprints?</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:14.25pt;line-height:15.75pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">If you are interested in the answers to some of these questions, please take a look at our report!</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:14.25pt;line-height:15.75pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">We would be happy to receive your comments on the report. Please help us distributing this interesting piece of work and share it widely
through your channels!</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:14.25pt;line-height:15.75pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">With best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:14.25pt;line-height:15.75pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Juliane<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:14.25pt;line-height:15.75pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:14.25pt;line-height:15.75pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/"><b><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The
Knowledge Exchange</span></i></b></a></span><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">
<span lang="EN">(KE) partners are six key national organizations within Europe tasked with developing infrastructure and services to enable the use of digital technologies to improve higher education and research:
</span></span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://www.csc.fi/"><b><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">CSC</span></i></b></a></span><i><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">
in Finland, </span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="http://www.cnrs.fr/index.php"><b><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">CNRS</span></i></b></a></span><i><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">
in France, </span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://ufm.dk/en/the-ministry/organisation/danish-agency-for-science-and-higher-education" title="https://ufm.dk/en/the-ministry/organisation/danish-agency-for-science-and-higher-education"><b><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">DAFSHE</span></i></b></a></span><i><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> in
Denmark</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><i><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">,
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in Germany, </span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://www.jisc.ac.uk/"><b><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Jisc</span></i></b></a></span><i><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">
in the UK and </span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://www.surf.nl/en"><b><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">SURF</span></i></b></a></span><i><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">
in the Netherlands.</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:14.25pt;line-height:15.75pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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</font><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;">Kant</font><br>
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