About us

Message

  • Excellence in Education, Research and Innovation towards open research
  • Knowledge for all
  • Research and knowledge-sharing
  • Creating a knowledge bridge

Mission

  • Creating the opportunity for the scientific community of Oman to conduct scientific research and education locally and internationally, in order to improve sustainable development.
  • Facilitate the access to Omani intellectual production, creating an educational research environment, and the participation between research and non-research institutions in the Sultanate of Oman.
  • Activating the Sultanate’s role in providing open-source access and availability of local and international sources.
  • To be a pioneer model both regionally and internationally for the provision and availability of free access sources.

Importance

The digital repository contributes significantly to scientific research in the Sultanate and offers a great opportunity to provide value-added services to the research community by providing free of charge sources online. The benefits of digital repositories include the following:

  • Raise the quality of research output by classifying and providing research, information and supporting statistics.
  • Encourage researchers in Oman to share their intellectual production and increase the level of awareness of scientific communication between researchers.
  • Serve as a central archive for Oman's production, which will increase the propagation, access rate, reference citations, and the Impact Factor in the Sultanate through a unified site that connects all research institutions in the region with the international community.
  • Cooperation between individuals, Omani academic research institutions, intellectual and cultural organizations in order to support and participate in academic research, accessed through one electronic portal.
  • Communicate and observe new research results with colleagues, which will result in greater scientific knowledge accumulation and the feedback and comments known as informal evaluation.
  • Cooperation with local and international academic organizations and government institutions, as well as with local, global, and regional databases to obtain experiences.
  • Capacity building in the Sultanate for database design and high- and low-cost, electronically available quality management.

Objectives

  • Collection of research outcomes and Omani academic research innovations, electronically available for the research and academic community.
  • Preservation of scarce resources without blocking access to any who wish to study them.
  • Classification of collected material on the basis of global standards, in collaboration with permission of the owners of the rights, to read a summary and full article and printing, after obtaining the direct approval of the concerned institutions.
  • Provide special audio-visual research services in accordance to the rules and principles of research and innovation and make them available for people with special needs according to the guidelines of access to web content (WCAG).
  • Organization and management of the outcomes of Omani academic research innovations indexed, categorized and saved in standardized digital repositories.