open access to scientific and scholarly communication in egypt and the arab world the movement and...

Open Access in Egypt

and Arab States

Mandy A. Taha, PhD

Open Access Consultant, Egypt

Open Access (OA)

Definition of "open access" from the Budapest Open Access

Initiative (BOAI):

"By 'open access' to this literature, we mean its free availability

on the public internet, permitting any users to read,

download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full

texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as

data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose,

without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those

inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only

constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role

for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control

over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly

acknowledged and cited."

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Open Access in Arab States

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By time elapsed

Information Gap existed

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Major force behind the emergence of

the OA movement

• The rising cost of journal subscription

• The emergence of digitization

• The increasing need to gain access to

knowledge and receive greater visibility

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Source: http://library.buffalo.edu/scholarly/index.php

Access was only for those who could afford !!

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PRESENT

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Open Access and Arab States

On October 2006 during Nidae Al-Ryadh of Free

Access to Scientific and Technical Information

Currently there are:

10930 OA Journals listed in DOAJ; 2044 OA

Journals in Arab states are listed >>>> 22.35%

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MAJOR REGIONAL PROJECTS

AND INITIATIVES

Majaliss

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Maghreb Virtual Science Library (MVSL)

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QScience.com

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Maerfa

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Open Access in Egypt

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OA Repositories in Egypt

• Cairo University: ت������

• ARLIS

• AUC DAR Repository (Digital Archive and

Research Repository)

• The Agricultural Research Center

• The Digital Assets Repository

• The BUE e-print repository

• IDR-MDLIS

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Snapshot of the Projects at Library

of Alexandria

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Snapshot of the Projects Library of

Alexandria

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Internet Archive

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Activities in Open Access in Egypt

Open Access Week (22-28) October

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OA Week profile can be viewed here: http://www.openaccessweek.org/group/open-access-egypt

www.openaccessweek.org/profile/MandyTaha

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Thank you

Questions ?!

Mandy A. TahaOpen Access Consultant, PhD

E-mail: Mandy_taha@hotmail.comLinked in: Mandy Taha /Twitter: @mtahahttp://eprints.rclis.org/17568/http://www.openaccessweek.org/group/open-access-egypthttp://www.openaccessweek.org/profile/MandyTaha

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