Call for Papers – 2024 Annual Forum! Transforming Knowledge Into Action 21st-23rd October | Doha, Qatar!
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Background
The goal of this conference is to bring together librarians, researchers, policy makers and university leaders, to support the exchange of ideas, and facilitate the development of new collaborative communities and partnerships. In our previous Annual Forums, we focused on sharing knowledge, exchanging ideas, and building communities. This year we will focus on Transforming Knowledge into Action. We are therefore especially delighted to be partnering with the Qatar National Library for the 2024 Annual Forum, reflecting QNL’s mission to empower the people of Qatar in their research and learning journeys.
THEMES
Open Science in higher education institutions and research communities is a highly complex and rapidly evolving landscape, and there are many ways of transforming knowledge into practical action. We have therefore identified 4 thematic areas for this year’s Annual Forum, reflecting the priorities of our members and wider network across the Arab states:
- Policies and funding:
- Open access and research assessment policies
- Funding sources and allocations
- developing policies and determining best practises to support sustainability in Arab scholarly communications ecosystems
- Incorporating SDGs in research and education strategic planning
- Open Access publishing and open education resources
- Preprints, transparent peer review, and open access publishing
- Creating and disseminating open resources
- The commercialisation of Open Science
- Building and using Institutional repositories
- Capacity building and community engagement
- Adapting and decolonising practises and resources for the Arab region
- Building and Sustaining Communities of Practices (CoP) in Arabic speaking countries
- Digital and human capacity building
- Open infrastructure and infrastructure supporting Open Science
- The rise of community-owned and community-led Open Science infrastructures and publications
- Implementing reproducible, open and interoperable infrastructure in the Arab region
- Using AI to advance engagement with open science policies and practises in the Arab world
Submission Guidelines
Proposals will be submitted via an online form HERE. When submitting, you will be asked to provide the following information:
- Specify whether you wish to present online or in person, and whether you wish to present in English or in Arabic
- Specify which thematic area your proposal sits within.
- Provide the proposal title, and a 300 word summary of the presentation you wish to give.
- Provide presenter name, institutional affiliation, email address and a short 100 word professional biography. (NB if you are submitting a workshop proposal or a round table discussion proposal – please include these details for all presenters involved).
Please note: all presenters will be required to cover any travel and accommodation costs, together with the conference fee. There is a special discounted rate for presenters attending the event in person of $130, and presenters who are not attending in person do not have to pay a fee.
The submission deadline is the 1st of June. The proposals will be reviewed by the Advisory Board, and acceptance notifications sent out in early July.
If you have any questions, please contact our Team via email ([email protected])
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