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| Members of the International Advisory Board of QScience.com, who held their inaugural meeting yesterday |
“Officially introduced at a ceremony held at the Qatar Foundation Annual Research Forum in 2010, QScience.com is now serving as an outlet for peer-reviewed research papers that are published with open access and are freely available to all,” explained a spokesperson.
The experts met to chart the future of the portal and its role in supporting research projects at QF, Qatar University and other national research stakeholders, the region and the world while adopting the latest technology and business models in support of global scientific communication.
During his speech to the Advisory Board, director of the National Centre for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Institutes of Health and PubMed, David Lipman said: “QScience.com will be the new innovative force in open access publishing.”
Sir Richard Roberts, who was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine emphasised the importance of worldwide knowledge dissemination through innovative publishing strategies and models.
Sir Richard stated: “QScience.com is another demonstration of the openness of Qatar Society. Let’s hope that QScience.com is as successful as Al Jazeera.”
President of Qatar Foundation, Fathy Saoud commented: “The successful launch of QScience.com is a major milestone in Qatar Foundation’s and BQFJ’s mission to reflect the burgeoning research environment of Qatar to the wider world through a state-of-the-art publishing enterprise that can attract the high quality research papers from Qatar centres of excellence in Qatar Foundation, Qatar University, Hamad Medical Corporation and other stakeholders in Qatar.”
President of Qatar University, Sheikha Abdullah al-Misnad stated: “The key to our mission is to establish QScience.com as a leading journals platform for top quality research from Qatar, the region and the world.”
