Open Access in the Arab World - AUC Open Access Days

AUC Open Access Days
Open Access (OA) in the Arab World
Tarek Amr
Open Knowledge, Egypt
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Open Journal System
● Open Journal Systems (OJS) is an open-
source software for the management of peer-
reviewed academic journals.
● OJS is designed to facilitate the development of
open access, peer-reviewed publishing

OJS in the Region
Journals using OJS
0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
2099
285
93
Latin Amrica
Sub-saharan Africa
Middle East and
North Africa

Middle East and North Africa
5
9
1
77
Egypt
Saudi
UAE
Iran

Public Awareness
● Wikipedia article about Open Access
– In 27 Languages
– Not in Arabic yet.
Row 1
0
10000
20000
30000
40000
50000
60000
Wikibooks
Books per Language
English
German
French
Hebrew
Arabic

Open Access to what?
● Peer-reviewed research papers
● Draft and unpublished papers
● Dissertations and Thesis
● Course work and Tutorials
● Books
● Code and Datasets

Open Access
● Gold and Green Open Access
● Legal aspects
– Free / Libre / Gratis
– Translation
● Technical aspects
– Access for humans and machines
– Search Engines

Examples from Egypt
● Gold OA
– Hindawi (APC)
● Green OA
– AUC DAR
– Open DOAR: Cairo, Helwan, Menofia and British
Universities in Egypt. Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
● LibreBooks.org
● TahrirAcademy.org
● Self publishing

Open Data
● Open Data Index (OKFN)
– 70 Countries surveyed in 2013
– 5 Arab Countries
– Egypt ranked 53
– Tunisia ranked 48
● Data is needed by researchers
● Data already used in researches
● Data used but not published

Just for humour! Not really.
● Crowdsourcing Academia
– Translation of OA papers
– Peer-reviews, crowd-reviews!
– Research itself, really!?

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