<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><Please excuse the cross-posting></span><div class=""><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">If you manage an institutional or generalist repository, <span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">please consider responding to this survey. </span></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" class="">It will only take about 5 minutes and is open until September 10, 2021.</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;">Best regards, Kathleen</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;">-----------</span></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" id="docs-internal-guid-8871a6bf-7fff-cc89-4ac9-e10c87a2bab6" style="margin: 10pt 0cm 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><u class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://asapbio.org/" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="text-decoration: none;">ASAPbio</span></a></span></u><span class=""> and <a href="https://www.coar-repositories.org/" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">COAR</span></a> are inviting institutional and other generalist repositories to fill in this survey about preprint sharing in repositories. The aggregate results of the survey will be made publicly available via our websites. The survey will only take about 5 minutes, and is open until September 10, 2021.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p class="" style="font-size: 15px;"> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><span class="">Please fill in the survey here: <a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DXV3DCW" target="_blank" class="" style="color: blue;">ASAPbio / COAR Survey on Preprint Sharing in Repositories</a></span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><br class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><span class="">If you have any questions, please contact <u class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="mailto:office@coar-repositories.org" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="text-decoration: none;">office@coar-repositories.org</span></a></span></u></span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p class="" style="font-size: 15px;"> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br class=""></div></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><br class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><span class="">Kathleen Shearer</span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><span class="">Executive Director</span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><span class="">Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)</span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><a href="http://www.coar-repositories.org" class="" style="color: blue;">www.coar-repositories.org</a></span></div></div></div></body></html>