From Göttingen to Doha, Destination #openaccess
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The document discusses the launch and role of qscience.com as an online journals platform aimed at supporting open access publishing in the Arab world, emphasizing its dual language capabilities and peer-review process. It highlights the challenges facing open access in the region, including a low number of Arabic journals, a lack of awareness, and insufficient support from institutions and funders. The document ultimately calls for improvements in awareness, the establishment of more journals and repositories, and supportive policies to enhance open access publishing in the Arab world.
From Göttingen to Doha, Destination #openaccess
- 1. From Göttingen to Doha Destination #openaccess Alwaleed Alkhaja, PhD. Senior Editor - Commissioning & Outreach - QScience.com (Bloosmbury Qatar Foundation Journals) aalkhaja@qf.org.qa December 4th, 2014 Max Planck Open Access Ambassadors Conference, Munich, Germany @alwaleeed Sunday, December 7, 14
- 2. Göttingen, Germany 2007 Sunday, December 7, 14
- 3. Göttingen, Germany 2007 Doha, Qatar 2012 Sunday, December 7, 14
- 4. Göttingen, Germany 2007 Doha, Qatar 2012 Sunday, December 7, 14
- 5. - Launched in September 2011 - QScience.com is the online journals platform from Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals Sunday, December 7, 14
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- 9. Journals Sunday, December 7, 14
- 10. Journals Books Sunday, December 7, 14
- 11. Journals Conference Proceedings Books Sunday, December 7, 14
- 12. Journals Conference Proceedings Books Sunday, December 7, 14
- 13. Journals Conference Proceedings Books Sunday, December 7, 14
- 14. Qatar National Vision 2030 • Suitable economical diversification: A knowledge-based economy characterized by innovation entrepreneurship; excellence in education Sunday, December 7, 14
- 15. Why open access? • The e!cient distribution and access to information are essential in the development of knowledge-based economy • Open access ensures a visible and transparent return on publicly funded research, and there is an expectation that open access to research findings will have a positive e"ect on R&D Sunday, December 7, 14
- 16. 14 Open access journals in English / Arabic Sunday, December 7, 14
- 17. Publishing platform QScience.com hosts peer-reviewed academic content in a variety of digital formats Dual Language The platform has Arabic and English language interface and searching capabilities In addition, abstracts of English articles are translated to Arabic Editorial Support In-house editing (copyediting/ proofreading) and linguistic support Journal Preservation Agreements with LOCKSS Archive and Portico Sunday, December 7, 14
- 18. Independent and fast peer-review QScience.com selects Rubriq for peer-review process Sunday, December 7, 14
- 19. Independent and fast peer-review QScience.com selects Rubriq for peer-review process Alternative metrics Each article will display the number of downloads and number of citations, along with other data from altmetric.com. http://www.qscience.com/page/altmetrics Sunday, December 7, 14
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- 21. Agreement with Max Planck Society Publication fees for articles published in (QScience.com) journals will be paid directly out of a fund supporting researchers from the Max Planck Institutes. Sunday, December 7, 14
- 22. Challenges of open access publishing in the Arab world Sunday, December 7, 14
- 23. Text The Arab world Sunday, December 7, 14
- 24. Text The Arab world Countries: 22 Population (Total): 369.8 million 2013 GDP (current US$) : $2.851 trillion 2013 Sunday, December 7, 14
- 25. • DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals Sunday, December 7, 14
- 26. 13 Number of open access journals from the Arab 10 8 7 7 6 5 3 3 3 2 1 1 1 1 Egypt U.A.E Jordan Morocco Iraq Qatar S Arabia Algeria Kuwait Oman Tunisia Libya Palestine Yemen Lebanon Bahrain world in DOAJ 480 Sunday, December 7, 14
- 27. 13 Number of open access journals from the Arab 10 8 7 7 6 5 3 3 3 2 1 1 1 1 Egypt U.A.E Jordan Morocco Iraq Qatar S Arabia Algeria Kuwait Oman Tunisia Libya Palestine Yemen Lebanon Bahrain world in DOAJ 480 551 journals from the Arab world Sunday, December 7, 14
- 28. 13 Number of open access journals from the Arab 10 8 7 7 6 5 3 3 3 2 1 1 1 1 Egypt U.A.E Jordan Morocco Iraq Qatar S Arabia Algeria Kuwait Oman Tunisia Libya Palestine Yemen Lebanon Bahrain world in DOAJ 480 551 journals from the Arab world 5.5% of total DOAJ journals Sunday, December 7, 14
- 29. 13 Number of open access journals from the Arab 10 8 7 7 6 5 3 3 3 2 1 1 1 1 Egypt U.A.E Jordan Morocco Iraq Qatar S Arabia Algeria Kuwait Oman Tunisia Libya Palestine Yemen Lebanon Bahrain world in DOAJ 480 551 journals from the Arab world 5.5% of total DOAJ journals 1217 journals from United States (population of 318,736,000) Sunday, December 7, 14
- 30. Number of (Arabic language) open access journals in DOAJ • 1 Journal Arabic online (Historical Kan Periodical) - Egypt • 10 Journals Arabic + English and/or French - Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia • 21 Journals Arabic + other language(s) - India, Iran, Malaysia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom Sunday, December 7, 14
- 31. Number of (Arabic language) open access journals in DOAJ • 1 Journal Arabic online (Historical Kan Periodical) - Egypt • 10 Journals Arabic + English and/or French - Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia • 21 Journals Arabic + other language(s) - India, Iran, Malaysia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom 0.3% of total DOAJ journals published in Arabic Sunday, December 7, 14
- 32. Number of (Arabic language) open access journals in DOAJ • 1 Journal Arabic online (Historical Kan Periodical) - Egypt • 10 Journals Arabic + English and/or French - Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia • 21 Journals Arabic + other language(s) - India, Iran, Malaysia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom 0.3% of total DOAJ journals published in Arabic 12% of total DOAJ journals published in Portuguese Sunday, December 7, 14
- 33. Challenges of open access publishing in the Arab world • Low number of (Arabic) open access journals • Low number of open access repositories • Absence of research funders' open access policies • Lack of OA awareness • Lack of institutional encouragement to OA • Skepticism about quality/impact Sunday, December 7, 14
- 34. Perspectives An enabling environment for an open access future? Sunday, December 7, 14
- 35. What does the (Arab) world need for open access to flourish? • Improve OA awareness • More OA journals + more OA Arabic content • Establishment of more institutional repositories • Institutional support for OA - (policies, mandates) • Research funder support for OA (policies, mandates, repositories) Sunday, December 7, 14
- 36. Thank you Sunday, December 7, 14
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- 39. Thank you for your attention GET IN TOUCH WEBSITE www.qscience.com CONTACT US info@qscience.com Tornado Tower P.O. Box 5825 Doha, Qatar Tel: +974 4454 2443 Fax: +974 4454 2438 www.twitter.com/qscience www.facebook.com/qscience www.linkedin.com/company/qscience-com Sunday, December 7, 14