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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


By time elapsed

Information Gap existed


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


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

Access was only for those who could afford !!


PRESENT


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%


MAJOR REGIONAL PROJECTS

AND INITIATIVES

Majaliss


Maghreb Virtual Science Library (MVSL)


QScience.com


Maerfa


Open Access in Egypt


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


Snapshot of the Projects Library of

Alexandria


Internet Archive


Activities in Open Access in Egypt

Open Access Week (22-28) October


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

www.openaccessweek.org/profile/MandyTaha


Thank you

Questions ?!

Mandy A. TahaOpen Access Consultant, PhD

E-mail: [email protected] 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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