Dear Dr Rahnuma Ahmad,
Thank you for your introduction message and welcome to HIFA! I was very interested to learn about your Journal of the Medical College for Women & Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh and I see that this is an open access journal and 'there is no article processing charges (APCs) or submission charges'. The Medical College for Women & Hospital (MCWH), Dhaka 'bears all the costs of publication of the journal'.
I also note that your journal is part of Bangladesh Journals Online (BanglaJOL), which was established by INASP (where I used to work up to 2005) and is now managed by Bangladesh Academy of Sciences.
'BanglaJOL uses the Open Journals System created by the Public Knowledge Project based in Canada. This software is open source and allows the journal content listed on BanglaJOL to be indexed through Open Archives Initiative search engines dedicated to research, which harvest the metadata for each journal article, making this work readily available to a global audience, and giving the journals greater visibility among the worldwide research community.'
This appears to be a successful example of a diamond OA journal that is supported by an academic institution and collaborates with other journals in Bangladesh as part of BanglaJOL.
I would be very interested to learn more about your experience with evolving the journal and working with BangalJOL.
Many thanks, Neil
HIFA profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is coordinator of HIFA (Healthcare Information For All), a global health community that brings all stakeholders together around the shared goal of universal access to reliable healthcare information. HIFA has 20,000 members in 180 countries, interacting in four languages and representing all parts of the global evidence ecosystem. HIFA is administered by Global Healthcare Information Network, a UK-based nonprofit in official relations with the World Health Organization. Email: neil@hifa.org