Establishing Open Access Institutional Repositories in Palestine
Establishing Open Access Institutional Repositories in Palestine
The Current Situation, the Lesson Learned and the Future
Introduction
The ROMOR Project “Research Output Management through Open Access Institutional Repositories in Palestinian Higher Education Institutions” aims over the course of three years to build capacity on research output management in four leading PS HEIs by establishing Open Access Institutional Repositories (OAIR). The training which is required to establish these repositories, and then their implementation, population and management are the core of the Project.
This Project aims to improve not only the visibility and the management of scientific research but also to promote the advocacy in support of open access to research outputs and to foster scholarly communication and coordination between Palestinian universities. The Project comprises 4 Palestinian universities and 4 European universities.
The Islamic University of Gaza
Birzeit University
Al-Quds Open University
Palestine Technical University - Kadoorie
Technische Universitaet Wien
Universita Degli Studi Di Parma
The University of Brighton
The University of Glasgow
Learning outcomes from these activities would be shared and disseminated through a series of training and dissemination workshops. This workshop is the first one in this series.
Objectives
Sharing knowledge with other non-partner stakeholders by introducing:
- ROMOR Project and its objectives.
- Open Science and Open Publishing.
- The lessons learned from staff and students mobility.
- The lessons learned from implementing OAIR in partner universities.
- The national plan for research output management in Palestinian universities.
Target Group
Academic and administrative staff, and students, non-partners universities, MoHE, and the AQAC
