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 Palestinian higher education institutions by establishing Open Access Institutional Repositories (OAIR).
The training which is required to establish these repositories, and then their implementation, population and management, will be the core of the project. Learning outcomes from these activities will also be shared and disseminated in a variety of ways, including the establishment of mechanisms to proactively assist other institutions in setting up and managing repositories.
This project aims to improve not only the visibility and the management of scientific research, but also support open access to research outputs and foster scholarly communication and coordination between Palestinian higher education institutions.
Project objectives:
- Map the current status of research dissemination in four Palestinian higher education institutions and identify the needs to integrate scholarly publishing and dissemination at these universities.
- Prepare training and teaching material meeting the local needs for building capacity in implementing OAIR.
- Build the capacity needed for building, managing, and sustaining OAIR
- Design and build 4 OAIRs in partner Palestinian higher education institutions that interface with outputs such as journals, books, conference proceedings, theses, and research data.
- Investigate key issues in populating and maintaining collections.
- Scale-up the Islamic University of Gaza's institutional repository to serve as a national OAIR.
- Share the skills gained and assist non-partner Palestinian higher education institutions in setting up their OAIR.
- Raise awareness and promote the collaboration and sharing of experience with different non- higher-education stakeholders.
