from göttingen to doha, destination #openaccess

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

Sunday, December 7, 14

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Göttingen,Germany

2007








Göttingen,Germany

2007

Doha, Qatar2012














- Launched in September 2011

- QScience.com is the online journals platform from Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals


Journals


Journals

Books


Conference Proceedings

Journals

Books


Qatar National Vision 2030

• Suitable economical diversification: A knowledge-based economy characterized by innovation entrepreneurship; excellence in education


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


14 Open access journals in English / Arabic


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


Independent and fast peer-reviewQScience.com selects Rubriq for peer-review process


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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Publication fees for articles published in (QScience.com) journals will be paid directly out of a fund supporting

researchers from the Max Planck Institutes.


Challenges of open access publishing in the Arab world


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The Arab world


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Countries: 22Population (Total): 369.8 million 2013GDP (current US$) : $2.851 trillion 2013

The Arab world


• 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


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


480

551 journals from the Arab world


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


480


5.5% of total DOAJ journals


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


480


5.5% of total DOAJ journals

1217 journals from United States (population of 318,736,000)


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






0.3% of total DOAJ journals published in Arabic 12% of total DOAJ journals published in Portuguese


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


PerspectivesAn enabling environment for an open

access future?


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)


Thank you


Thank you for your attention

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