Partnering on Copyright

OPEN ACCESS ORGANISATIONS & INITIATIVES

Project Partners

JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) - http://www.jisc.ac.uk/

SURF – http://www.surf.nl/en/home/index.php

Related Project Partner Groups/Initiatives

SURF - Copyright Management for Scholarship - http://www.surf.nl/copyright

Zwolle Group – http://www.surf.nl/copyright/zwollegroup.php

Zwolle Principles – http://www.surf.nl/copyright/keyissues/scholarlycommunication/principles.php

Zwolle Conferences - http://www.surf.nl/copyright/zwolle/

SURF DARE (Digital Academic Repositories) Programme - http://www.surf.nl/en/themas/index2.php?oid=7&inhoud_oid=11

DARE – http://www.darenet.nl/en/page/language.view/dare.watenwaarom

DARE Cream of Science - http://www.creamofscience.org/en/page/language.view/keur.page

JISC’s Scholarly Communications Group - http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=jcie_scg

JISC’s FAIR (Focus on Access to Institutional Resources) Programme – http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=programme_fair

RoMEO (Rights MEtadata for open Archiving) project – http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/index.html

SHERPA (Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access) – http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/

Other Organisations Supporting Open Access

Create Change - http://www.createchange.org/home.html

ARL (Association of Research Libraries) – http://www.arl.org/

SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)- http://www.arl.org/sparc/

SPARC EUROPE - http://www.sparceurope.org/

CURL (Consortium of Research Libraries) – http://www.curl.ac.uk/

SCONUL (Society of Colege, National & University Libraries) - http://www.sconul.ac.uk/

The Adelphi Charter on Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual Property - http://www.adelphicharter.org/default.asp

Worldwide Open Access Initiatives

Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities - http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html

Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing - http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/bethesda.htm

Budapest Open Access Initiative - http://www.soros.org/openaccess/index.shtml

Worldwide Institutional Repositories

Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT) DSpace - https://dspace.mit.edu/index.jsp

University of Kansas KU ScholarWorks - http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/

University of Minho RepositoriUM - https://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt

Queensland University of Technology (QUT) ePrints - http://eprints.qut.edu.au/

University of Queensland ePrintsUQ - http://eprint.uq.edu.au/

UK Institutional Repositories

List of SHERPA Partners - http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/archives.html

SHERPA Development Partners

British Library Research Archive- http://sherpa.bl.uk/

Edinburgh Research Archive - http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/index.jsp

Glasgow ePrints Service - http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/

Nottingham ePrints - http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/

Oxford Eprints - http://eprints.ouls.ox.ac.uk/

White Rose Consortium ePrints Repository (Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York) - http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/

SHERPA Associate Partners

Birmingham ePrints Service - http://eprints.bham.ac.uk/

Bristol Repository of Scholarly Eprints (ROSE) - http://rose.bris.ac.uk/dspace/

LSE Resaerch Articles Online (London LEAP) - http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/

Other UK Institutional Repositories

University of Bath - http://eprints.bath.ac.uk/

CCLRC - (Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils ) ePublication Archive - http://epubs.cclrc.ac.uk/

Cranfield University - Cranfield QUEprints - https://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/index.jsp

Open University E-Print Archive - http://libeprints.open.ac.uk/

St Andrews University - St Andrews Eprints - http://eprints.st-andrews.ac.uk/

University of Southampton - e-Prints Soton - http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/

University of Warwick - CSC Eprints - http://eprints.csc.warwick.ac.uk/

Dutch Institutional Repositories

DAREnet - gives digital access to academic research output in the Netherlands- http://www.darenet.nl/en/page/language.view/home

Delft University of Technology - http://www.library.tudelft.nl/ws/295/f_EN.html

Eindhoven University of Technology - http://w3.tue.nl/en/services/library/digilib/tue_publications/dare/tue_and_dare/

Erasmus University Rotterdam - https://ep.eur.nl/

Fontys University of Professional Education. For more information see http://www.darenet.nl/en/page/language.view/fh.institution

KNAW (the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) - http://www.repository.knaw.nl/nl/

Leiden University - https://etcl04.leidenuniv.nl/index.jsp

Maastricht University - http://edata.ub.unimaas.nl/www-edocs/default.asp?taal=NED&webnaam=edocs

NWO (the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Resaerch) - For more information see http://www.darenet.nl/en/page/language.view/nwo.institution.page

Radboud University Nijmegen - For more information see http://www.darenet.nl/en/page/language.view/ru.institution.page

Tilburg University -

University of Amsterdam - http://dare.uva.nl/en

University of Groningen - http://ir.ub.rug.nl/archives.php

University of Twente - http://doc.utwente.nl/en/

Utrecht University - http://www.igitur.uu.nl/en/default.htm

Vrije Universiteit - https://dare.ubvu.vu.nl/community-list

Wageningen University & Research Centre - http://library.wur.nl/way/

Subject-Based Repositories

arXiv (an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology) - http://arxiv.org/

Cogprints (an electronic open access archive for the cognitive sciences) - http://cogprints.org/

D-LIST (Digital Library for Information Science and Technology) - http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/

E-Lis (E-prints in Library and Information Science) - http://eprints.rclis.org/

Open Access Directories & Registries

Lund Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - http://www.doaj.org /

Directory of Open Access Repositories (DOAR) – http://www.opendoar.org/

Experimental OAI Registry at UIUC – http://gita.grainger.uiuc.edu/registry/

Institutional Archives Registry now known as the 'Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) – http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?action=browse

Institutional Self-Archiving Policy Registry - http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/

Registry of Institutional OA Self-Archiving Policies – http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php

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OPEN ACCESS SOFTWARE, TOOLS & PROTOCOL

OAIster (OAI search engine) - http://www.oister.org/o/oaister/

Open Archives Initiative - http://www.openarchives.org/

The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting - http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html

GNU EPrints Archive Software - http://software.eprints.org/

Demonstration EPrints Archive - http://demoprints.eprints.org

Citebase Search – a search and citation analysis tool for the free, online research literature, Tim Brody. – http://citebase.eprints.org/help/

Citebase Correlation Generator, Tim Brody and Stevan Harnad. – http://citebase.eprints.org/analysis/correlation.php

Citeseer (The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies) - http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/Misc/CiteSeer/#about

OpCit The Open Citation Project – http://opcit.eprints.org/

Scirus (science-specific search engine) - http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/

IRRA (Institutional Repository and Research Assessment) EPrints and DSpace RAE Software - Bronze Release - http://irra.eprints.org/software/bronze/

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OPEN ACCESS INFORMATION SOURCES

Open Access Lists & Bibliographies

Lists Related to the Open Access Movement by Peter Suber - http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/lists.htm

Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals. Charles W. Bailey, Jr. – http://www.escholarlypub.com/oab/oab.htm or http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/oab.pdf

The effect of open access and downloads ('hits') on citation impact: a bibliography of studies - http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html

Open Access Webliography by Adrian K. Ho and Charles W. Bailey, Jr. - http://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/oaw.htm

OA Librarian: Open Access Resources for Librarians - http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/

Sources Of Open Access News

SHERPA news - http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/news/index.html

SPARC Open Access News Blog - http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html

SPARC Open Access News Letter - http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/archive.htm

OA Librarian: Open Access Resources for Librarians - http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/

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OPEN ACCESS LITERATURE

Open Access Policies, Statements & Declarations

Scottish Declaration on Open Access. - http://scurl.ac.uk/WG/OATS/declaration.htm

Russell Group Statement on Scholarly Communication and Publishing. June 2005. – http://www.russellgroup.ac.uk/2005/scholarly_communication.htm

The Wellcome Trust position statement in support of open and unrestricted access to published research - http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_wtd002766.html

Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing - http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/bethesda.htm

Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities - http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html

Berlin 3 Open Access: Progress in Implementing the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities - http://www.eprints.org/berlin3/outcomes.html

The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy - http://publicaccess.nih.gov/policy.htm

Continuing CERN action on Open Access - http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/%7Eharnad/Temp/cern.pdf

Research Councils UK (RCUK) Position Statement on Access to Research Outputs - http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/access/statement.pdf

Universities UK: ‘Access To Research Publications: Universities UK position statement’ - http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/mediareleases/downloads/Open%20Access_UUK%20policy%20principles_FINAL.pdf

Open Access Overviews

JISC Open Access summary - http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=pub_openaccess

Open Access Overview – Focusing on open access to peer-reviewed research articles and their preprints by Peter Suber - http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm

Questions and Answers About Opening Up Access to Research Results, produced By JISC, Research Councils UK (RCUK), Council for the Central Laboratory for the Research Councils (CLRC), and the Research Libraries Network (RLN) - http://www.jisc.ac.uk/issue_qaopen.html

OA is not just a technical question on how to finance journals or launch repositories – interview with Peter Suber. http://inist.fr/openaccess/article.php3?id_article=80

Key Open Access Concepts by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. – http://www.escholarlypub.com/oab/keyconcepts.htm.

Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals – http://www.escholarlypub.com/oab/oab.htm

EPrints: Supporting Open Access - http://www.eprints.org/

Eprints Handbook - http://software.eprints.org/handbook/

EPrints Self-Archiving FAQs - http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/self-faq/

Pinfield, Stephen. 'Scholarly publishing and the e-print initiative.' - http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/briefing.html

Sale, Arthur (2005). 'The key things to know, University of Tasmanis Eprints Repository'. 16 November. - http://eprints.comp.utas.edu.au:81/archive/00000223/

Open Access Surveys & Reports

Swan, Alma, & Brown, Sheridan (May 2005). 'Open Access Self-Archiving – An Author Study’. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/Open Access Self Archiving-an author study.pdf

JISC/OSI Journal Authors Survey Report - http://cogprints.org/4125/01/JISCOAreport1.pdf

Rowlands, Ian, Nicholas, Dave & Huntingdon, Paul (18 March 2004) 'Scholarly Communication In The Digital Environment: What Do Authors Want? – findings of an international survey of author opinion: project report'. http://ciber.soi.city.ac.uk/ciber-pa-report.pdf.

The House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee Tenth Report: 'Scientific Publications: Free For All?' http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/399/39902.htm

The Government's response to The House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee Tenth Report. 'Scientific Publications: Free For All?' http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/1200/120003.htm

Oppenheim, C., Probets, S. & Gadd, E. (2003). 'RoMEO final report and studies series'. http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/Romeo%20Deliverables.htm

PowerPoint Presentations

Brody, Tim & Harnad, Stevan. 'Putting the Berlin Principle into Practice: The Southampton Keystroke Policy'. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/berlin3-harnad.html or http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/berlin3-harnad.ppt

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RESOURCES ON PARTICULAR OPEN ACCESS ISSUES

• Advocacy Resources

SPARC Advocate’s Handbook, 1997. Available from sparc@arl.org

Create Change Advocacy Toolkit – http://www.createchange.org/librarians/advocacy/intro.html

JISC – FAIR Synthesis: Advocacy Materials – http://jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=fairsynthesis_advocacy

SHERPA Advocacy Advice – http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/advice/advocacy.html

ALA (American Library Association) Scholarly Communication Toolkit – ttp://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/scholarlycomm/scholarlycommunicationtoolkit/tools/tools.htm

Branschofsky, Margaret (2004). 'DSpace marketing and policy planning'. - http://www.dspace.org/conference/presentations/mit-marketing.ppt

Greig, Morag (2005). 'Institutional Advocacy Campaign: Guidelines and Practical Advice' (as part of the DAEDALUS Project at the University of Glasgow) - https://dspace.gla.ac.uk/handle/1905/377

• Targeting Specific Stakeholders

SHERPA 'The Move Towards Open Access of Research Output: Briefing Paper' (March 2004) - http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/documents/open_access_briefing3.pdf

Suber, Peter. (2005) 'The Primacy Of Authors In Achieving Open Access'. Nature, Thurs. 21 April 2005. http://nature.com/focus/accessdebate/24.html

• Increase In Research Impact/Citation Counts

The effect of open access and downloads ('hits') on citation impact: a bibliography of studies - http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html

Lawrence , S (2001) 'Online or invisible?' Nature, 411 , 6837, p521 - http://www.neci.nec.com/~lawrence/papers/online-nature01/ or www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/Articles/lawrence.html

Kurtz, M (2004) 'Restrictive access policies cut readership of electronic research journal articles by a factor of two'. http://opcit.eprints.org/feb19oa/kurtz.pdf

Harnad, S and Brody, T (2004) 'Comparing the impact of open access (OA) vs. non-OA articles in the same journals'. D-Lib Magazine , 10 (6), - www.dlib.org/dlib/june04/harnad/06harnad.html

Antelman, K (2005) 'Do open-access articles have a greater research impact?' College & Research Libraries, 65 (1) , 372-282.

Brody, T. and Harnad, S. (2005) 'Earlier web usage statistics as predictors of later citation impact'. - http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/10713/

Brody, Tim et al. 'Citation impact of Open Access articles vs. articles available only through subscription (“Toll Access”)'.

Harnad, Stevan & Brody, Tim (2004) 'Prior evidence that downloads predict citations'. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/10206/01/BMJ1.html

Hitchcock, Steve; Woukeu, Arouna; Brody, Tim; Carr, Les; Hall, Wendy and Harnad, Stevan. (2003) 'Evaluating Citebase, an open access web-based citation-ranked search and impact discovery service'. http://opcit.eprints.org/evaluation/Citebase-evaluation/evaluation-report.html

Perneger, T.V. (2004) 'Relation between online "hit counts" and subsequent citations: prospective study of research papers in the BMJ'. BMJ 2004;329:546-547 (4 September), doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7465.546 http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/329/7465/546

• Improved Research Reporting/Administration

Harnad, Stevan, Carr, Les, Brody, Tim & Oppenheim, C. (2003). 'Mandated online RAE CVs linked to university Eprint archives’. 30 April 2003 Ariadne Issue 35.- http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue35/harnad/.

A draft demo template for the standardized CV (sample data only) - http://paracite.eprints.org/cgi-bin/rae_front.cgi

Fried Foster, Nancy& Gibbons, Susan (2005). ‘Understanding Faculty to Improve Content Recruitment for Institutional Repositories’. - (http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january05/foster/01foster.html)

• Time It Takes To Self-Archive

Carr, Les & Harnad, Stevan (2005). 'Keystroke economy: A study of the time and effort involved in self-archiving.' http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/10688/

• Working Within Subject Disciplines

Fried Foster, Nancy & Gibbons, Susan (2005). 'Understanding faculty to improve content recruitment for institutional repositories’. D-Lib, 11 (1) - http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january05/foster/01foster.html

Hey, Jessie (2004). 'Targeting academic research with Southampton’s institutional repository'. July 2004. Ariadne Issue 40. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue40/hey

Pinfield, Stephen (2001). 'How do physicists use an e-print archive?: Implications for Institutional E-Print Services.' D-Lib, 7 (12) - http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december01/pinfield/12pinfield.html

Disciplinary Differences Relevant To Open Access, taken from 'Lists Related to the Open Access Movement' (see 'Open Access Lists & Bibliographies' above) by Peter Suber. - http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/lists.htm#disciplines

• Costs

Barton, Mary J. & Harford Walker, Julie (2002). 'Building a business plan for DSpace, MIT Libraries’ Digital Institutional Repository. - http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i02/Barton/barton-final.pdf

Swan, A., Needham, P., Probets, S., Muir, A., O’Brien, A., Oppenheim, C., Hardy, R. and Rowland, F. (2004). 'Delivery, management and access model for E-prints and open access journals within further and higher education'. (Report of a JISC study). pp 1-121. - http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/ACF1E88.pdf

Swan, A., Needham, P., Probets, S., Muir, A., O’Brien, A., Oppenheim, C., Hardy, R., Rowland, F. and Brown, S. (2005). 'Developing a model for e-prints and open access journal content for UK higher and further education.' Learned Publishing , 18 (1) , 25-40. - http://www.keyperspectives.co.uk/OpenAccessArchive/Eprints_LP_paper.pdf

• Mandating Self-Archiving

The outcomes of the Berlin 3 Conference - http://www.eprints.org/berlin3/outcomes.htm

Pinfield, S (2005). 'A mandate to self archive? The role of open access institutional repositories'. Serials , 18 (1) , 30-34.

Pinfield, S (2004). 'Self-archiving publications'. In: Gorman, G E and Rowland, F (eds). International yearbook of Library and Information Management 2004-2005: Scholarly publishing in an electronic era . London: Facet. Pp118-145. Also available at - http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/archive/00000142/

• Open Access and the Role of Libraries

Bosc, H., & Harnad, S. (2005). 'In a paperless world a new role for academic libraries: providing open access'. Learned Publishing 18 (2) April 2005, p.96.

Ayris, Paul (2005). 'Are they open yet: the impact of Open Access publishing on research libraries?' - http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/archive/00000476/01/UKSG_paper.pdf

‘Bell, Suzanne, Fried-Foster, Nancy & Gibbons, Susan. 'Reference Librarians and the success of institutional repositories’ Reference Services Review, 33 (3), 2005, pp.283-290.

• Copyright Resources (Also see 'Institutional Repository Literature - Copyright' below.)

SHERPA/RoMEO publishers self-archiving database - http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php

Copyright Knowledge Bank - database.

University of Southampton Self-archiving policy by journal - http://romeo.eprints.org /

RoMEO final report and studies series - http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/Romeo%20Deliverables.htm

Creative Commons – http://creativecommons.org/

Science Commons Web site - http://science.creativecommons.org /

SURF Copyright Management for Scholarship - http://www.surf.nl/copyright/

JISC Legal – http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk/

University of Minnesota Copyright Information & Education - http://www.lib.umn.edu/copyright/

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INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY LITERATURE/MATERIALS

• Advocacy

Cranfield University 'What are the benefits of an e-print repository to Cranfield?' - http://www.cranfieldlibrary.cranfield.ac.uk/library/content/pdf/1020

White Rose ePrints Repository general flyer - http://www.york.ac.uk/services/library/services/sherpa_general_flyer_york.pdf

Glasgow ePrints leaflet - http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/daedalus/docs/eprintsleaflet.pdf

University of Glasgow ePrints Service Launch - http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/daedalus/eprintslaunch/index.html

• Submission Procedures

SOAS Eprints Repository - http://www.soas.ac.uk/eprints/guide/index.html

Glasgow ePrints Service User Documentation - http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/help/#Process

UCL Eprints Deposit Guide - http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/DepositGuide.html

Nottingham ePrints Deposit Guide - http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/deposit.html

“Let Us Archive It For You” service at St. Andrews – http://eprints.st-andrews.ac.uk/proxy_archive.html.

• Copyright

UCL Eprints and Copyright - http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/About-copyright.html

Glasgow ePrints copyright awareness - http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/copyright.html

White Rose Consortium copyright information page - http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/sherpa/copyright.html

White Rose University Consortium ' Blackwell Deposit Permission - Suggested Text' - http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/sherpa/blackwelltext.html

LSE Research Articles Online 'Copyright Guidance for Authors' - http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/copyright.html

SHERPA 'Requests To Publishers' - http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/documents/request_template.htm

• User Guides

Oxford Eprints User Documentation - http://eprints.ouls.ox.ac.uk/help/

Glasgow ePrints Service User Documentation - http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/help/

UCL Eprints Help - http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/help/#Searching

Nottingham ePrints User Documentation - http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/help/

• FAQs

Oxford University Eprints - http://eprints.ouls.ox.ac.uk/faq.html

University of Edinburgh Edinburgh Research Archive - http://www.thesesalive.ac.uk/ta_general_faq.shtml (for general) and http://www.thesesalive.ac.uk/ta_submitters_faq.shtml (for submitters).

White Rose Consortium http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/sherpa/faq.html

Glasgow ePrints - http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/faqeprints.html

Self-archiving FAQs for the Budapest Open Archives Initiative - http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/

SURF Copyright Management For Scholarship - http://www.surf.nl/copyright/

JISC Legal Information Service - http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk

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