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From Göttingen to DohaDestination #openaccess
Alwaleed Alkhaja, PhD. Senior Editor - Commissioning & Outreach - QScience.com
(Bloosmbury Qatar Foundation Journals) [email protected]
December 4th, 2014Max Planck Open Access Ambassadors Conference, Munich, Germany
@alwaleeed
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Göttingen,Germany
2007
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Göttingen,Germany
2007
Doha, Qatar2012
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Göttingen,Germany
2007
Doha, Qatar2012
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- Launched in September 2011
- QScience.com is the online journals platform from Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals
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Qatar National Vision 2030
• Suitable economical diversification: A knowledge-based economy characterized by innovation entrepreneurship; excellence in education
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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
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Dual LanguageThe platform has Arabic and English language interface and searching capabilities
In addition, abstracts of English articles are translated to Arabic
Publishing platformQScience.com hosts peer-reviewed academic content in a variety of digital formats
Editorial Support In-house editing (copyediting/proofreading) and linguistic support
Journal PreservationAgreements with LOCKSS Archive and Portico
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Independent and fast peer-reviewQScience.com selects Rubriq for peer-review process
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Independent and fast peer-reviewQScience.com selects Rubriq for peer-review process
Alternative metricsEach article will display the number of downloads and number of citations, along with other data from altmetric.com.
http://www.qscience.com/page/altmetrics
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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.
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Countries: 22Population (Total): 369.8 million 2013GDP (current US$) : $2.851 trillion 2013
The Arab world
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• DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals
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10 8 7 7 6 5
3 3 3 2 1 1 1 1
Egypt
U.A.E
Jord
an
Morocco
Iraq
Qatar
S Arabia
Algeria
Kuwait
Oman
Tunisia
Libya
Palestine
Yemen
Lebanon
Bahrain
Number of open access journals from the Arab world in DOAJ
480
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13
10 8 7 7 6 5
3 3 3 2 1 1 1 1
Egypt
U.A.E
Jord
an
Morocco
Iraq
Qatar
S Arabia
Algeria
Kuwait
Oman
Tunisia
Libya
Palestine
Yemen
Lebanon
Bahrain
Number of open access journals from the Arab world in DOAJ
480
551 journals from the Arab world
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13
10 8 7 7 6 5
3 3 3 2 1 1 1 1
Egypt
U.A.E
Jord
an
Morocco
Iraq
Qatar
S Arabia
Algeria
Kuwait
Oman
Tunisia
Libya
Palestine
Yemen
Lebanon
Bahrain
Number of open access journals from the Arab world in DOAJ
480
551 journals from the Arab world
5.5% of total DOAJ journals
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13
10 8 7 7 6 5
3 3 3 2 1 1 1 1
Egypt
U.A.E
Jord
an
Morocco
Iraq
Qatar
S Arabia
Algeria
Kuwait
Oman
Tunisia
Libya
Palestine
Yemen
Lebanon
Bahrain
Number of open access journals from the Arab 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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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What does the (Arab) world needfor 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)
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Thank you for your attention
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