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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dear CODATA International community,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">I’m writing to share a major survey of possible interest to you, targeting researchers in North America and Europe that PLOS has launched. Our goal is to deepen
understanding of researchers’ priorities with regards to sharing research data, and to understand how well existing tools and services are meeting researchers’ needs.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">If you or anyone you know are able to respond to the survey or help raise awareness of the survey amongst researchers in these locations (US/Canada, and
UK/Europe), I’d be very grateful.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The survey is open till May 26th 2020. We’ll be sharing results of the survey publicly in the future.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The survey can be accessed here:
<b><a href="http://sgiz.mobi/s3/PLOS-Research-Data-Survey?S=23">http://sgiz.mobi/s3/PLOS-Research-Data-Survey?S=23</a>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">More information about the survey, including why we're running this new survey now, is on the PLOS blog:
</span><a href="https://blogs.plos.org/plos/2020/05/what-are-your-priorities-for-data-sharing/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">https://blogs.plos.org/plos/2020/05/what-are-your-priorities-for-data-sharing/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">If you have any questions please let me know.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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