Free access to conference’ proceedings between the issues of arbitration and the mandatory availability : A proposal of a project for an Algerian platform to manage scientific events

Abstract

Conferences are among the most important access points to scientific communication. The development of IT applications in addition to open access caused the appearance of new diffusion vessels that suggest the right to access to their content with the least restrictions possible. Conferences' sponsors were obliged to make their publications available on these new vessels. In the other hand, there are many problems that face these works, the most important is the quality of arbitration of these works and the difficulty faced to track them . This paper aims to confirm the obligation of making the conferences' works available in addition to studying the most important problems that are faced and also to put and visualize a recommendation of an Algerian data base to manage these scientific events in order to overcome these problems. The study relied on the descriptive methodology and came up with the conclusions below: Conferences works are considered to be one of the main outcomes of scientific communication which must be available. The study also recomends Encouraging the development of digital platforms to manage the scientific events because of its contribution to raise the quality of researches' arbitration and providing its Works to a wide range of users.