Global experts attend QScience.com board meeting

"The inaugural meeting of the International Advisory Board of Qatar Foundation’s QScience.com took place yesterday, with experts from around the world coming together to discuss the digital publishing portal for research journals....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.” ..."