<font size="2"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">[Forwarding from Shania Khan. --Peter Suber.]</font><br><br></font><div class="gmail_quote"><br>Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals signs Open Access agreement<br>
with Max Planck Society<br>
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Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals (BQFJ) and the German Max<br>
Planck Society (MPS) announced today that they have signed an<br>
agreement whereby open access publication fees for BQFJ journals<br>
articles will be paid directly out of a fund supporting<br>
researchers from the Max Planck Institutes. The prestigious<br>
agreement bolsters the publishing company's growth and the<br>
visibility of its journals platform, QScience.com .<br>
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The Max Planck Society, is one of the world's leading research<br>
organizations whose researchers have an international reputation<br>
for scientific excellence. Since its inception in 1948, the MPS<br>
has seen 17 Nobel Laureates rise from its ranks. In 2003, MPS was<br>
the co-initiator of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to<br>
Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities and since then has<br>
demonstrated consistently strong leadership in the promotion of<br>
open access to research results.? Article-Processing-Charges for<br>
all articles where the corresponding author is affiliated with a<br>
Max Planck Institute will now be covered by a central fund.<br>
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BQFJ publishes a multi-disciplinary portfolio of open access<br>
journals titles through the QScience.com site, and this MPS<br>
partnership is a major milestone for the burgeoning journals<br>
platform, which will be a year old in December. The support from<br>
MPS shows great confidence in BQFJ's potential and development<br>
while recognizing it as one of the most dynamic publishers of<br>
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarly content.<br>
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Arend Koester, Managing Director of BQFJ said: "We are delighted<br>
to be collaborating with MPS in this way and are welcoming<br>
submissions from highly-esteemed MPS researchers. We encourage<br>
them to publish with us and to promote open access to research<br>
literature more broadly. We are working together to develop new<br>
and innovative ways to collaborate with MPS authors,<br>
progressively making the submission and publishing process as<br>
seamless as possible."<br>
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Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals applies the Creative Commons<br>
Attribution License (CC BY 3.0) to all published articles. Under<br>
the CC license, authors retain ownership of the copyright for<br>
their article, but allow anyone to download, reuse, reprint,<br>
modify, distribute, and/or copy articles from BQFJ journals, so<br>
long as the original authors and source are cited. No permission<br>
is required from the authors or the publishers. Thus, the<br>
contents of all open access BQFJ journals are freely accessible<br>
by the reader, worldwide via the internet.<br>
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The BQFJ website, QScience.com, provides immediate, worldwide and<br>
free access to the full text of its peer-reviewed research<br>
articles and offers the so-called gold road to open access for<br>
all of its journal articles.??<br>
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BQFJ publishes online, peer-reviewed journals for a broad variety<br>
of subject areas, from cardiology research with the Aswan Heart<br>
Centre Science & Practice Series, edited by Magdi Yacoub, to<br>
Contemporary Islamic Studies, edited by Dr Hatem Al Karanshawy,<br>
to the International Review of Law, edited by John Truby. In<br>
May, BQFJ launched the highly-innovative Journal QScience Connect<br>
which is envisioned to become the region's premier broadly-scoped<br>
3journal, accepting submissions from researchers around the<br>
world, in all fields.<br>
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