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The three traditional dimensions of the academic endeavor are: research & scholarship, instruction, and service. The Candidates for the R&S category identifies SPs are those Service Providers that are specifically designed to support some aspect of research and scholarship; SPs aimed to enable instruction or service do not qualify for this category, even if they are intended for use by academics. Likewise, SPs that provide generalized services that have been or might be adopted for use in support of research and scholarship activities, but whose primary purpose is not research and scholarship, are not included in the R&S category.
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