Birzeit University and Norway to cooperate on the development of an open research archive

Birzeit university library in Palestine, member of national library consortium PALICO,  Tromsø university library and Telemark university college library in Norway have decided to work together in order to promote the development and establishment of an Open research archive for scientific publications and master and PhD theses from Birzeit university. An open access research archive will give global access to doctoral and master thesis and scientific publications produced at Birzeit University.

The partners will meet in Tromsø, Norway, on October 28-31 in order to discuss the plans and a major application to the Norwegian Government for funding the common project