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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:black;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif">Dear friends, </span></span>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif">October to December 2020 CORE broke records, partnered with arXiv.org and continued improving our REF2021 compliance monitoring service. The CORE team had a busy end to 2020! </span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif">Our team concentrated on multiple areas, including collaboration with the open access community and new feature development.</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif">Find out more details on<span> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="https://research.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2021/03/29/core-updates-and-a-reminder-of-some-highlights/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="https://research.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2021/03/29/core-updates-and-a-reminder-of-some-highlights/" data-linkindex="0" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif">Jisc
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