[BOAI] Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals Launches QScience.com

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from the Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals.  --Peter Suber.]


Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals Launches Scientific Journals
Platform QScience.com

Doha, Qatar - December 15, 2010 - Qatar Foundation and its
publishing arm Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals (BQFJ) today
announced the launch of its online content platform QScience.com.
Officially introduced at a ceremony held at the Qatar Foundation
Annual Research Forum 2010, QScience.com will serve as an outlet
for peer-reviewed research papers that are published with Open
Access and are freely available to all.

QScience.com initially hosts six scholarly journals covering the
subject areas Cardiology, Information & Librarian Studies,
Engineering, Education, Healthcare and Islamic Studies:

--  Aswan Heart Centre Science and Practice Series

--  Perspectives in International Librarianship

--  Sustainable Technologies Systems and Policies

--  Near and Middle Eastern Journal of Research in Education

--  Avicenna

--  Contemporary Islamic Studies

Other journals will be added in 2011. QScience.com's advanced
technology makes research findings readily accessible and
searchable using multimedia functionalities to support text,
data, audio and video formats. It is also the first scholarly
research platform to make journal abstracts available in both
English and Arabic.

In an inspiring address to the 600 delegates attending the Qatar
Foundation Annual Research Forum, acclaimed space pioneer Buzz
Aldrin emphasized the importance of worldwide knowledge
dissemination through innovative publishing strategies and
models.

The 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. President of Qatar
Foundation, Dr. Fathy Saoud said today:  "QScience.com provides a
high-quality publishing environment for researchers and scholars
worldwide. It is part of Qatar Foundation's commitment to
fostering top-quality research and attracting researchers of the
best caliber in order to establish a knowledge-based society. "
Arend Kuester, Managing Director of BQFJ, said: "QScience.com
adds invaluable momentum to our efforts to establish a leading
research publishing program. It also supports Qatar Foundation's
ongoing commitment to bring research from the region to the
widest possible international audience and thus connect the
global scientific community to one of the fastest growing
research and development centers in the world."

About Qatar Foundation
Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development
is a private, non-profit organization that is supporting Qatar on
its journey from carbon economy to knowledge economy by unlocking
human potential for the benefit of not only Qatar, but the world.
 http://www.qf.org.qa

About Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals (BQFJ)
Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals (BQFJ), founded in 2009 as a
unique collaboration between Qatar Foundation and Bloomsbury
Publishing Plc, focuses on fostering scholarly and research
communication. BQFJ publishes a range of peer reviewed,
high-quality, open access journals, databases and repositories
which adhere to the highest scholarly publishing standards.
www.QScience.com<http://www.QScience.com>

About Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc is one of the world's leading
independent publishers. BQFJ is its second partnership with Qatar
Foundation, the first Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing
whose book publishing program was launched in April.
www.bloomsbury.com<http://www.bloomsbury.com>


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Contact:

Arend Kuester

Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals (BQFJ)
Tel: +974 (445) 42439
akuster at qf.org.qa
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