QF’s Qatar National Library hosts Open Access workshops | Qatar is Booming

"Qatar National Library (QNL) recently hosted two workshops in celebration of Open Access (OA) Week 2017, designed to promote free online access to scholarly research and the right to use and re-use those results as needed. The workshops were held at QNL’s new building in Education City, set to open to the public on November 7, and were co-hosted by Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press), which, along with QNL, is a member of Qatar Foundation (QF). Open access allows for scholarly research to be available online without financial or technical restrictions, allowing users to freely download, copy, and use that research for their own purposes. The first OA Week workshop, ‘Discovering the World of Open Access,’ showed participants how to apply OA to their everyday workflow, and introduced them to a range of essential OA tools. The second workshop, titled ‘Publishing Open Access,’ was led by Dr. Alwaleed AlKhaja, Senior Editor at HBKU Press, and highlighted various OA publishing options, including those available for publishing in Qatar. The workshops were attended by researchers, librarians, scholars, academics, and students."