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--></style></head><body lang=en-NL link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Dear </span><span lang=NL style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>European </span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>In recent years, a rich field of Open Access, Open Science/Scholarship resources and infrastructure, many essential, has organically developed in Europe. <br>Many of these resources, as you may well know, are not necessarily sustainable - even though they underpin our evolving Open Access and Open Science landscape. <br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>With your help, though, </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>SPARC Europe is</span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> working to change this. We have devised a survey targeting </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>digital OA and OS </span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>infrastructure providers </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>with a regional, national or international scope </span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>in Europe and we are reaching out to you as we need you to send news of this to important OA / OS services and infrastructure in your country. Their feedback is necessary for us to gain a comprehensive understanding of existing resources so that these services have a greater chance of garnering the funding support they may need</span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>in future.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>We need your help in getting this 30-minute survey into their hands.</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Through this effort, we hope to bring greater visibility and a deeper understanding of the many European-based scholarly communications resources on offer. This information should help funders <span style='background:white'>– governments, funding organisations and agencies, institutions, libraries, service providers and others – conceive effective strategies for financing essential Open infrastructure</span></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'>We ask that you take a moment to consider any services that you think should be involved in this survey, particularly those resources that we might not know about from your country, and share it with them</span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'>.<br></span><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'>Below, please find an email we have drafted that you are free to use when reaching out to potential survey participants. It includes a link to the survey itself.</span></b><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>The survey</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'>: <a href="https://surveymonkey.com/r/V8Q7R2X">https://surveymonkey.com/r/V8Q7R2X</a>, which is being conducted for <a href="https://investinopen.org/">Invest in Open Infrastructure</a>, should take approximately 30 minutes to complete. It will remain open until 5 June 2020. Once closed, we will use the following two months to review and compile the results, which will be shared during the late summer/early autumn 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'>Thank you very much for your support. If you have any questions, please reach out to <a href="mailto:survey@sparceurope.org"><span style='color:black'>survey@sparceurope.org</span></a>.</span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'>Best regards, </span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'>Vanessa Proudman</span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'>Director, SPARC Europe</span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'>+++++++++++++++++++++++++</span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'>For forwarding to OA/OS </span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'>infrastructure/service providers that wish to </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'>take</span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'> the survey:</span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'>Email title: </span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Scoping the OA & OS Infrastructure Landscape in Europe</span><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'>Dear colleague,</span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>If you’re reading this, you are most likely based in Europe and a part of the rich field of Open Access, Open Science/Scholarship resources and infrastructure, many essential, that has organically developed in Europe in recent years. Many of these resources, as you may well know, are not sustainable — even though they underpin our evolving Open Access and Open Science landscape. With your help, though, we are working to change this. By taking part in</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> this survey, </span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>you can help us bring greater visibility and a deeper understanding of the rich offering of scholarly communication resources based in the European region; and ultimately, help attract more funding. Based on what we learn, we also plan to showcase some of you as leading open infrastructure champions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Your feedback is critical. The information you share will ultimately help funders <span style='background:white'>– governments, funding organisations and agencies, institutions, libraries, service providers and others – conceive effective strategies for financing essential Open infrastructure.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/V8Q7R2X"><span style='color:black'>The survey</span></a>, which is being conducted for <a href="https://investinopen.org/"><b><span style='color:black'>Invest in Open Infrastructure</span></b></a>, should take you approximately 30 minutes to complete and will be open until 5 June 2020. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><br><b>If you are based in Europe and are running a service or infrastructure that supports OA or OS anywhere in the research cycle, we’d like to hear from you. In the event that you are </b> responsible for more than one, please submit entries for each. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><br>Once closed, we will use the following two months to review and compile the survey results which will be shared during late summer/early autumn 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/V8Q7R2X"><b><span style='color:black'>Take me to the survey</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'>Thank you very much for your support. If you have any questions, please reach out to <a href="mailto:survey@sparceurope.org"><span style='color:black'>survey@sparceurope.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'>Best regards,</span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Vanessa Proudman<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Director, SPARC Europe</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>