Free to publish, free to read: Qatar's open science bet
Researchers publishing on QScience.com pay nothing to appear and readers pay nothing to download — a model the Qatar-based platform says has made it the first fully open-access publishing house of its...
QScience.com, a Qatar-based open-access scholarly publishing platform, has become the first fully open-access publishing house in the Middle East, offering researchers and readers free access to publish and read research. Head of academic and journals publishing Dr Salah B Ajjur revealed that the platform currently hosts over 10,000 works, including 3,450 articles, books, and chapters authored by Qatar-affiliated researchers.
QScience.com is part of Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press under Qatar Foundation, providing a digital platform for scholarly journals, books, conference proceedings, and special collections. Operating as a diamond open-access imprint, QScience.com makes research freely accessible worldwide under a Creative Commons Attribution license, retaining authors' copyright.
The platform combines rigorous peer review with a transparent, author-focused process and offers professional publishing services, including peer review, copyediting, digital preservation, and marketing. QScience.com has partnerships with major institutions in Qatar and the Middle East, ensuring research produced locally is published, preserved, discovered, and used internationally.
By focusing on Qatar-specific and regional priorities while adhering to international standards, the platform aids local researchers in contributing to Qatar's knowledge economy and the global scholarly community.
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