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Open Science Workshop

Open Access: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

EPFL-AA-DAF-SISB, EPFL Library November 12, 2015

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Which discipline are you working in? (one answer)

A. Engineering & Technology

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Economics D. Physical Sciences E. Administration or

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Submission of your paper: What is the most important consideration in your

choice of journal? (one answer)

A. Reputation of the journal B. Relevance to my discipline C. Journal’s impact factor D. Open Access Option E. Indexation in search

engines F. Quality of peer review G. Recommendation by

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What sites do you use to archive and share your publications?

(multiple answers)

A. ArXiv B. ResearchGate C. PubMed Central D. RePec E. Infoscience F. My personal webpage G. I don’t share my

publication H. My smartphone (via

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What is the advantage of Open Access? (multiple answers)

A. Better visibility B. Reproducibility and

reuse of my research C. Compliance with

funders’ requirements D. Larger dissemination of

knowledge E. More citations F. I know who my

reviewers are G. It’s the new fashion

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What makes Open Access journals different? (multiple answers)

A. Anyone can read them for free

B. The author publishes for free

C. It is free for authors and readers

D. They are good

E. They are bad

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Is it mandatory to publish in OA to comply with public governmental funders’ mandates (SNFS, H2020, etc.)?

(one answer)

A. Yes

B. No

C. What was the question?

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Who will pay for a publication in Open Access? (multiple answers)

A. The lab

B. The author

C. The dean

D. The funder

E. The library

F. Bill Gates

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Do EPFL authors have to publish in Open Access? (one answer)

A. Do EPFL researchers have to publish?

B. Yes, it’s mandatory

C. No, it’s only recommended

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Is there an Open Access policy at EPFL? (one answer)

A. Yes

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Have you already been solicited by a

funding agency or an editor to file your research data? (one answer)

A. Yes

B. No

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Are you familiar with the pilot project called Open Research Data, which was set up by the

European Research Council for the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation program? (one answer)

A. Yes

B. No

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What would you associate research data with specifically?

(multiple answers)

A. Texts B. Images C. Audiovisual data D. Profit E. Source code F. Statistical data G. Geodata H. Genetic sequences I. Retraction Text

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According to you, what would be some of the benefits of a data management

plan? (multiple answers)

A. Research reproducibility

B. Transparence

C. More citations

D. It answers the requirements of funding agencies

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Where can we find or file our research data? (multiple answers)

A. Zenodo

B. Dropbox

C. A floppy disk

D. Dryad

E. OneDrive

F. Figshare

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Do open access papers have the same quality

as non-open access?

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Publisher Journal title APC price IF* Rank *

NPG Nature Communications 5200$ 11.5 3/57 (Multidisciplinary)

Scientific Reports 1495$ 5.6 5/57 (Multidisciplinary)

Light: Science & Applications 4400$ 14.6 2/87 (Optics)

eLife eLife 0 9.3 3/85 (Biology)

PLoS PLoS One 1350$ 3.2 9/57 (Multidisciplinary)

PLoS Pathogens 2250$ 7.6 10/119 (Microbiology) – 2/33 (Virology)

PLoS Computational Biology 2250$ 4.6 4/57 (Mathematical & Computational Biology)

PLoS Genetics 2250$ 7.5 (14/167) Genetics & Heredity

PLoS Biology 2900$ 9.3 2/85 (Biology)

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 2250$ 4.6 1/20 (Tropical Medicine)

AIP APL Materials 2200$ 2.8 51/260 (Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)

Copernicus Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics 420 CHF 5.1 3/77 (Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences)

OSA Biomedical Optics Express 1100$ 3.6 9/87 (Optics) – 18/79 (Biochemical research Methods)

Optics Express 1350$ 3.5 10/87 (Optics)

Elsevier Cell Reports 5000$ 8.4 27/184 (Cell Biology)

Wiley EMBO Molecular Medicine 3900$ 8.7 9/123 (Medicine, Research & Experimental)

Molecular Systems Biology 3900$ 10.9 10/290 (Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)

Frontiers Frontiers in Pharmacology 1900$ 3.8 51/255 (Pharmacology & Pharmacy)

Springer Journal of High Energy Physics 1200€ 6.1 3/27 (Physics, Particles & Fields)

Elsevier Materials Today 0 14.1 8/260 (Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)

Elsevier Physics Letters B 2200$ 6.1 7/78 (Physics, Multidisciplinary)

IOP New Journal of Physics 2080$ 3.6 10/78 (Physics, Multidisciplinary)

OUP Nucleic Acids Research 2770$ 9.1 20/290 (Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)

BMC BMC Biology 2120€ 8 4/85 (Biology)

MDPI Sensors 1800 CHF 2.3 10/56 (Instruments & Instrumentation)

ASM mBio 2250$ 6.8 11/119 (Microbiology)

* Source – Incites Journal Citation Reports – Thomson Reuters #OpenScienceEPFLbib

Does open access promote a wider diversity of topics and theories? Ex. cover research

unrelated to medicine, cover theories accepted only by a minority, etc...

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How to do "open access" science reliably?

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Do we still need publishers as an instrument to select "good" articles?

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Single-blind peer review: authors are unaware of who reviewed their paper, but reviewers are aware of the authors’ identity. This is probably the most widely used method of reviewing and is, by far, the most common type. + Anonymity of reviewer allows them to be honest and open without fear of criticism from the authors + Knowing the identity (and affiliation) of the author allows them to use prior knowledge to assist the article assessment - Personality Influences: Reviewers who know authors with a dazzling record may be over- impressed by their work and not scrutinize the article carefully - Possible discrimination based on sexism and regionalism: Reviewers may be biased

against certain individuals, or overly suspicious of research emerging from some regions

Double-blind peer review: both the author and peer reviewers are not aware of each other’s identity. + This method ensures fairness of judgement, without bias towards certain authors or regions of the world + Confidentiality of both author and reviewer may provide some protection against criticism for both the authors and reviewers - This method is not foolproof as it may be easy for reviewers to discover the identities of the authors (either because of the area of research, the references or the writing style) It may be argued that knowing the author’s identity and affiliation will help the reviewer to make an informed judgement of the article – and not knowing this may disadvantage the review

Open peer review: identities of both author and reviewers are known. Also, this system allows the peer reviewer comments as well as authors’ responses to be published along with the final manuscript. + Open peer-review, and the transparency it brings to the process, encourages accountability, encourages civility, and generally improves the quality of the review (and ultimately the article) + Since an open review system may report the reviewers’ names next to the accepted, published article, it will persuade reviewers to do a thorough job - Some reviewers might be concerned about the consequences of being identified as the source of a negative review, and so may refuse to review for a journal using an open system Reviewers might be reluctant to criticize the work of more senior researchers on whom they may depend for career advancement. This may be a particular problem in smaller research communities, and more prevalent in some regions of the world than others Post-publication peer review: a relatively new approach adopted by some open access publications in an attempt to overcome the limitations of traditional forms of peer review. As the name suggest, in this type of review, reviewers evaluate a manuscript after it has been published on an open access platform. Here, the identities of author and reviewer are known (published) and so is the peer review evaluation of the manuscript. This system allows reviewers to take credit for their reviews.

Since open access can be expensive, what (financial) resources are available at EPFL to

support publishing open access?

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Memberships

Supporter Membership giving 20% discount on APCs

Deposit accounts

Deposit allowing the management of the workflow

SCOAP3 SCOAP3 has converted key journals in the field of High-Energy Physics to Open Access at no cost for authors

Vouchers

EPFL have been awarded 15 vouchers that allows researchers

to publish some selected papers in Open Access in RSC journals, without extra charges. Authors receive 2 ACS Author Rewards worth $750 each (a total value of

$1,500) for each article they publish in an ACS journal + 50% discount as ACS member, and 25% as EPFL member 5 article s a 5 articles absolutely free in F1000Research + 10% discount on APCs

Research Life cycle

Project Implementation

Research / Discovery

Analysis

Writing

Publication

Dissemination

Preservation

Reuse

Grant writing and application

Drafting, collaborative writing

Submission, peer review, journal’s decision

Hybrid

Open Access

“Open Access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.” (Peter Suber, 2012)

Always for the reader Sometimes for the author

Green Open Access

Free for both readers and authors

Consists in filing a copy of an article (published in a traditional journal) into an institutional or disciplinary archive.

Gold Open Access

Free for readers and generally fee-paying (APC) for authors

Consists in publishing in a journal of which the entire content is freely accessible. The author publishes for free

Self-Archiving

Green Open Access

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Self-archiving

My paper just got accepted in Nature (Nature Publishing Group)

Can I deposit my paper into Infoscience or another

repository?

Which version of my manuscript can I share?

Where can I find useful information? #OpenScienceEPFLbib

http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ Author’s right / Author’s resources section on the journal’s webpage

Self-archiving

Different versions of a manuscript

Pre-print

Post-print

Submitted manuscript

Author’s accepted manuscript

Publisher’s version Final PDF version with publisher’s layout

Peer review Revision

Acceptance

Subediting Proof Reading

Pay attention to a possible embargo period

Self-archiving

Institutional Repository

openDOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories)

Where should I deposit my manuscript?

Disciplinary Repository

Self-archiving

Where should I deposit my manuscript?

Multidisciplinary Repository

Academic Networking website

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Self-archiving

openDOAR - Directory of Open Access Repositories http://www.opendoar.org/find.php

ROAR - Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies http://roarmap.eprints.org/

Check for: • Accessibility • Findability • Altmetrics and bibliometrics options

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Copyright Publication contract

Authors’ rights

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Copyright

My paper just got accepted in Journal of Nuclear Materials (Elsevier)

Where can I find useful information?

What are my rights regarding the copyright?

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Author Information Pack - http://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-nuclear-materials/0022-3115?generatepdf=true

Author will be asked to complete a “Journal Publishing Agreement”. “In order for Elsevier to publish and disseminate research articles, we need publishing rights. This is determined by a publishing agreement between the author and Elsevier. This agreement deals with the transfer or license of the copyright to Elsevier and authors retain significant rights to use and share their own published articles. Elsevier supports the need for authors to share, disseminate and maximize the impact of their research and these rights, in Elsevier proprietary journals* are defined below:”

Copyright

Publication contracts are drafted by publishers but are ALWAYS NEGOTIABLE

The copyright holder (originally the author) may grant permission or license anyone else to:

Copy Reproduce Distribute

Adapt Perform Display

The authors may be asked either to:

• Transfer the copyright • Give an exclusive license • Give a non-exclusive licence

Read the agreement carefully Decide what rights you want to keep

Consider negotiating for specific rights

Copyright Addendum to copyright

SPARC®, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to create a more open system of scholarly communication

SPARC Author Addendum is a legal instrument that modifies the publisher’s agreement and allows you to keep key rights to your articles. The Author Addendum is a free resource developed by SPARC in partnership with Creative Commons and Science Commons, established non-profit organizations that offer a range of copyright options for many different creative endeavors.

Copyright

Copyright http://scholars.sciencecommons.org/

CC-0 Public Domain «No Rights Reserved»

Give creators a way to waive all their copyright Anyone can use the work in any way and for any purpose,

including commercial purposes.

CC0 use cases

BioMed Central for data supporting the published articles

The British Library released a large set of their bibliographic

CERN Library released its book catalog

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has surrendered all copyrights in its malarial data set

Harvard Library has released 12 million catalog records

Dryad as online repository released data sets

Nature Publishing Group provides access to linked data

CC-BY

6 licenses – 3 levels 1st level

Attribution This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials.

CC-BY

2nd level Attribution-ShareAlike

Lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.

Attribution-NoDerivs This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.

Attribution-NonCommercial This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.

CC-BY

3rd level

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs The most restrictive license. Only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially.

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.

Open Access

How to comply with funders’ requirements?

Where can the information be found?

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Open Access @

Obligation for OA

Type of publications

• Journal articles

• Books

How? • Green road

• Gold road

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• Max 6 months for articles

• Max 24 months for books Embargo

Reporting • Fulfillment of the OA commitment

must be provided in the scientific reporting

Gold Road @

Funding • Up to 3000.- for articles

• Via project budget or publication grant for book

Deposit in a repository

Reporting • Fulfillment of the OA commitment must

be registered in the scientific reporting

• Costs of the OA publication will be reported within the scope of the financial reporting

The SNSF does not support hybrid OA

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• Peer-reviewed publications

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• Max 12 months for HSS disciplines Embargo

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Gold Road @

Funding • APCs eligible for reimbursement

Deposit in a repository

Reporting • Via OpenAIRE

H2020 covers also hybrid OA

The European Commission provided €4M to support Gold Open Access publications. This project will run until the funding is used up but for no longer than the end of April 2017. Conditions: • FP7 projects finished no longer than two years ago are eligible (if your project ended

between January and June 2013, you are still eligible but please consider applying as soon as possible)

• The publication must be accepted and peer-reviewed

• When possible the publication has to be available under open content license (CC-BY)

• A maximum of three publications per project will be funded

• Only publication in fully Open Access journals listed in standard directories (DOAJ, Scopus, Web of Science, or PubMed) will be entitled for funding. Publications in hybrid journals are not supported

• Up to a maximum of €2,000 for research articles, book chapters and conference proceedings, and €6,000 for monographs

For any questions, do not hesitate to contact the Library at publish-support.bib@epfl.ch

• Accepted Manuscript in a pure gold Open Access journal (no hybrid)

1st

• Go to goldoapilot.openaire.eu to request funding

2nd

• Article Processing Charges directly paid by OpenAIRE

• No post-reimbursement

3rd

How to choose an OA journal?

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https://doaj.org/

http://oaspa.org/

http://thinkchecksubmit.org/check/

http://cofactorscience.com/

Predatory publishers Phishing

What and how to avoid?

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http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/

http://publicationethics.org/

http://www.stm-assoc.org/

"Predatory open-access publishers are those that unprofessionally exploit the gold open-access model for their own profit. That is to say, they operate as scholarly vanity presses and publish articles in exchange for the author fee. They are characterized by various level of deception and lack of transparency in their operations. “ J. Beall

http://www.integrity-ethics.com/ Fake ethical website

Check! Editorial

Board Members

Visibility of costs

associated with

publishing

Peer review process clearly

described

Fees charged clearly

mentioned

Read some published articles to evaluate

the quality

Ask your colleagues

and the library

Indexing in recognized bibliographic databases

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Dear Prof. XXX, Sport and Art launched by Horizon Research Publishing is an international peer-reviewed journal that publishes original and high-quality research papers, review articles, case studies and short communications, etc.in the relevant field. The aim of the journal is to establish an academic exchange platform for scientists and researchers to share their insights and experiences.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas: Amateur Sports, Arts Administration, Athletic Sports, Blood Sport, Dance, Disabled Sports, Extreme Sports, Fantasy Sports, Female Sport, Film, Individual Sport, Motorsports, Music, Oral Literature, Professional Sports, Sports Equipment, Sports Ethics and Conduct, Sports Medicine, Sports Nutrition, Sports Training, Team Sport, Visual Arts.

Submission Guidelines Manuscripts can be submitted via the Online Manuscript Tracking System or send your manuscripts by e-mail at submission@hrpub.org.

Special Issues Proposals for special issues are welcome. Potential guest editors can seek further information and discussion at

editor@hrpub.org.

Related Journals Universal Journal of Public Health, Universal Journal of Educational Research, Universal Journal of Psychology

Book Publishing If you have a book to be published, please contact the editor at book@hrpub.org. We will pay you 60% of the NET revenue after your book has been successfully sold.

Predatory journal

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Fake conference

Spam from Research Media “The spam emails are cleverly written, and they strike a friendly tone. The spams do not mention the fees (as much as $3,000) that the company charges researchers to showcase their research in the magazine. A typical Research Media spam email begins like this: I was hoping to talk with you at some point next week. I came across your published paper – Placebo: Physician, Heal Thyself and I wanted to speak with you about the possibility of highlighting the broader scope of you [sic] work in our health and biology research report, International Innovation, we are particularly interested in focusing around research in the field of genetics. The spam email mischaracterizes the online comment as a “published paper.” Research Media’s emails pander to researchers, exploiting the need for their research to draw attention and have impact.”

Research promotion service

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Unsolicited Email Marketing

Cyagen Biosciences proposes to researchers to cite its “animal model services” in their scientific publications. By doing so, they could earn a financial reward of $100 or more; the amount would be based on the Impact Factor (IF) of the journal in question

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Research Data

Research data

The definition of research data is not fixed or rigid: several definitions are possible based on specific fields, institutions, and organizations.

For the Organization for Economic Co-Opération and Development (OECD), research data are defined as factual recording (numbers, texts, images and sounds), which are used as principal sources for scientific research and which are often recognized by the scientific community as being necessary to validate research results.

One key element to take into consideration during research data

management are the legal, ethical and political aspects based on the sensitivity of the data.

Definition

Re3data is a data repository collecting more than 1000 data storage:

http://www.re3data.org/

Source: http://www.re3data.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/growth-re3data.png

Data repositories classified by categories: http://www.re3data.org/browse/by-subject/

Data repositories

http://wiki.datadryad.org/Journal_instructions#Examples_of_journal_data_policies

Key examples: Nature Publising Group et PLoS.

http://www.nature.com/sdata/data-policies/repositories

Publisher’s policies

• Zenodo (hosted by the CERN, free repository)

http://zenodo.org

• Dryad (curated tool, non for profit organization) http://datadryad.org/

• Figshare (commercial tool, belong to Macmillian [comme NPG]): http://figshare.com/

• Reproducible Research (institutional tool, in progress, based on Infoscience) http://rr.epfl.ch/

Data repositories examples

https://zenodo.org/collection/user-epfl

In addition to the CC0 and CC-BY licences (see above), that are data-publication compatible since version 4.0, there are other data licences:

• Open DataBase Licence (ODBL) http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/

• Open Data Commons (ODC) http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/1-0/

Pour d’autres exemples de licences, p.ex. pour le code informatique, cf. A Selection of Research Data Management Tools Throughout the Data Lifecycle https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/211157

Data specific licences

Choose a widely used standard, preferably open. That way, your data will not be dependent on a specific: • Software • Company • Operating system • Platform

Data formats - 1

• Portable Document Format PDF/A, ISO norm, structured text [PDF for archiving: no encryption, fonts included, etc.]

• XML. Structured data. Many standards are defied by an XML model or compatible, including RDF (Semantic Web).

• TextCSV, for data table. Compatible with most scientific software (R, Python, Matlab, Mathematica) and spreadsheets.

• Structured Query Language (SQL). Supports links between tables (many to many). Unified Modeling Language (UML) for class descriptions.

• HDF5, managing and data storage format. Flexible and efficient. Compatible with Matlab, Octave, Python, R, Java, C++, Fortran and Mathematica.

• Interactive documents: iPython Notebooks.

For links and more inorfmation, see: A Selection of Research Data Management Tools Throughout the Data Lifecycle https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/211157

Data formats - 2

Repositories of (meta)data formats 1. Sustainability of digital formats (US Library of Congress) :

http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/ . Lists formats by media type (text, audio, image, video, geospatial, dataset, etc.)

2. The Datatype Registry: http://www.typeregistry.org/registrar/ . This tools allows to describe data types. Each type is identified by a persistent identifier and can be reused to define other types.

3. Recommended meta-data formats http://rd-alliance.github.io/metadata-directory/

Data formats - 3

For links and more inorfmation, see: A Selection of Research Data Management Tools Throughout the Data Lifecycle https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/211157

For questions related to open access publications: Béatrice Marselli and Julien Junod :

publish-support.bib@epfl.ch

For questions related to research data management: Lorenza Salvatori, Aude Dieudé and Jan Krause:

datamanagementplan@epfl.ch

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