Arab Initiatives of Open Access AIOA

Arab Initiatives of Open Access AIOA

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  Discover Open Accesswith QSience.com Wednesday, October 22, 2014 Doha, Qatar Arab Initiatives of Open Access AIOA Dr. Sulieman Alshuhri Inaam Ullah
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  Overview of theContents • Why we believe in Open Access • AIOA in the Context of Open Access • AIOA in the Context of Open Access • Open Acess practices in Saudi Arabia
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  Why we believein Open Access “When the son of Adam dies no further reward is recorded for his actions, with three exceptions: charity whose benefit is continuous, knowledge from which benefit continues to be reaped, or the supplication of a righteous son (for him).”‘ (Muslim)
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  Why we believein Open Access • We advocate the unrestricted use & free dissemination of research • We want to encourage both researcher and the publisher in the region to opt OA for maximum promotion. • OA benefits researchers, institutions, nations and societies as a whole.
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  AIOA in theContext of Open Access
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  What is AIOA • An oldest group of volunteers starting from 2007 for adoption OA publishing approach. • Earlier in the absence of the OA concept in the Arab world decided to provide readers & researchers with a blog that introduces OA in theory and practices. • AIOA follow up on the World’s OA activities.
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  Who is AIOA • A group of people who are interested in OA • Striving to promote OA in not only Arab but all around the world • Covers recent development in OA field • Editorial Board Dr. Sulieman Al-Shuhri Mr. Inaam Ullah Dr. Amal Al-Salem Dr. Abdel-Rahman Dr. Maha Mohammed Dr. Essam Obaid
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  AIOA Goals •To disseminate the benefits of publishing in open access. • To promote the practices of open access in the Arab and other world • To attract and convince the concept of information for all. • To provide a platform for the authors and publishers for open access publishing • To encourage the idea of Book Endowment • To enrich Arabic content
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  Achievements of AIOA • Translation Service A book “Policy Guidelines for the Development and promotion of Open Access” by Dr. Alma Swan has been translated from English language to Arabic
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  Achievements of AIOA • AIOA has developed its own Database “ Arab Digital Repositories” • AIOA has Contributed so far in number of local and international Conferences. • AIOA is a registered blog with Open Access Directory. • Agreement with some Scholars and Publishers to publish their works under OA policy e.g. the Book Endowment (Waqf) policy.
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  Users by Countries From January 2014 to up to now there have been 64,000 viewers of AIOA all around the world. Country Viewers Saudi Arabia 12919 United States 11613 Egypt 8266 Algeria 3551 United Kingdom 2375 Russia 2088 Germany 1612 Netherlands 982 Ukraine 714 France 674
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  How to ReachAIOA • Website: aioablogspot.com • Twitter: aioatweets • There is also a Facebook Community of AIOA which can be reached Facebook: Arab Initiative of Open Access Community
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  Open Access Practicesin Saudi Arabia • Number of OA Journals in DOAJ (6) • Growth of OA Journals in DOAJ • 0.3% of total DOAJ journals published in Arabic • Number of Open Access Repositories in Saudi Arabia ROAR (6)
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  Challenges to OAin Saudi Arabia • OA awareness • Number of Arabic open access journals • Institutional encouragement to OA • Low number of open access repositories • Absence of Research funders • Open Access Policies
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  Conclusion Keeping inview all the challenges there is a need to promote the concept of OA so that the OA may be flourish in the region.
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  Thank You foryour Attention