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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black">Dear All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black">I hope you are well. At PLOS we are investigating how well funders' and institutions’ needs are met for evaluating how researchers are sharing research data and code. To assist in this activity,
 I’d be very grateful if members of the CODATA International community could take about 10 minutes to
</span><a href="https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/5726689/plos-open-research-priorities-S-11"><b><span style="color:#1155CC">complete this survey</span></b></a><span style="color:black">. This survey is open to respondents globally.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black">We seek to understand the importance of problems that funders and institutions may have in understanding researchers’ open research practices, and to understand how well existing solutions
 help solve these problems.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black">Having recently conducted a survey of researchers’ priorities for sharing research data, we are now seeking input from research support staff at institutions (including librarians and research
 data managers), and representatives of funding agencies and other organisations with an interest in open research.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black">If you know anyone who might like to complete the survey feel free to share
<b><a href="https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/5726689/plos-open-research-priorities-S-11">this link</a></b>. If you have any questions please email me.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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