Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals Initiative

Bloomsbury Publishing, Qatar Foundation and Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) announce the launch of a new scientific publishing house to be based in Doha, Qatar.

This initiative will extend the relationship between Qatar Foundation and Bloomsbury. The new publishing house, Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals (BQFJ), will publish scientific research in order to connect the international research community to one of the fastest growing research and development centres in the world.

The development follows the creation of a scientific and research environment in Qatar.  Through BQFJ, research facilities will be complemented by publishing. The venture will largely adopt the open access publishing model and will cover all research subjects, including medical, physical, engineering, Islamic and social sciences and the arts.

Articles and journals will be made available on the same platform as the institutional repository, currently under development in Qatar.

Bloomsbury has already established a book publishing operation in partnership with Qatar Foundation. Through the creation of a scientific publishing centre, this will provide the seeds for a leading publishing house based in the Middle East.

Nigel Newton will be Chairman of the Management Committee of Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals, which will include Richard Charkin and Kathy Rooney. Arend Küster will be Managing Director of the Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals.

Bloomsbury is also committed to establish knowledge-transfer of publishing skills to Qatar, including a mentoring programme and the training of Qatari interns each year in London and Doha.

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