Qatar National Library has joined the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS), thus furthering its commitment to helping researchers in Qatar and beyond publish their findings on international publishing platforms.
The Library was named as a representative of the Middle East on the board of SCOSS as part of its continuing commitment to sharing knowledge and information across the world through open access.
The Library will join a network of influential organisations committed to helping secure open access and open science infrastructures worldwide. These infrastructures include scholarly communication resources, services and software that help researchers collect, store, organise, access, share and assess their research.
SCOSS identifies and analyses non-commercial services that are essential to open science and open access and provides recommendations for funding to entities interested in supporting these services. Since 2017, SCOSS has encouraged the community to invest in nearly US$3 million in open infrastructure projects. Dr. Alwaleed Alkhaja, Senior Intellectual Property Librarian, will sit on the board as the Library’s representative.
The Library takes part in various international open access initiatives, such as INTACT’s OpenAPC project and Open Access 2020, and contributes to the development of international open access principles through the International Federation of Information and Library Associations.
Since 2017, Qatar National Library has assisted researchers in Qatar by creating the Open Access Author Fund, which covers all costs related to publishing their findings on open access platforms. The Library also offers open access vouchers, allowing the Library’s partner vendors to provide vouchers for eligible authors to publish their articles in one of these vendors’ Open Access journals.
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