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 <p>Welcome to the pilot eprint repository for the School of Business at the University of Otago. This is an is an open access collection of publications by School of Business academic staff and students across all departments in the School, both before and after peer-reviewed publication. Most publications are fully searchable. Note that the full text of some material may be not be available due to copyright issues.</p>
 
+<p>Because this is a pilot repository, you will find that things often change as we improve the system. The repository may also on occasion be briefly offline as we apply the latest changes. Please bear with us as we move towards the finished system.</p>
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 <h3>Search the Repository</h3>
 
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