The overall objective: to activate the partnership between universities and the private sector in the development of scientific research, and guide such a partnership towards the development priorities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and improve economic performance.                                    

Specific objective: get out effective partnerships between King Saud University and the private sector.

Expected objectives to be achieved from the seminar:

• Identify the nature and models of the partnership between universities and private sector organizations.
• Identify aspects of the benefit from strengthening of the relationship between universities and the private sector for both parties.
•  Identify the main challenges and obstacles that hinder an effective relationship between the private sector and universities.
• Showing successful experiences of university relationships  and the private sector in some countries as models to have  advantages from.
• Proposing mechanisms to activate the role of the private sector in support of scientific research in the university based on the results of this seminar.
• Achieving one of the objectives of the initiative 5.5 "to provide competitive grants to support researches, and interface projects among sciences". The fifth goal of the strategic plan for the University KSU2030  "Building bridges of communication inside and outside the university."

Specialized seminar including accompanying exhibition oriented to discuss the research and development partnerships among Saudi universities in general, and King Saud University in particular, and between institutions, companies, businesses and industrial sectors and other economic institutions of society.

As King Saud University (KSU) is leading the vanguard in promoting and supporting scientific research in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), it is therefore pleased to announce The 2nd Saudi International Conference on Scientific Publishing 2015, which will be held in Riyadh during the 11th – 13th  October 2015, 28th – 30th  Thul-Hijjah 1436 AH.  The Conference will discuss issues and challenges surrounding scientific publishing in the Arab world with specific focus on indexing and ranking of journals as well as the difficulties faced by Arab researchers to publish in globally recognized journals.

It becomes incumbent upon all universities and research institutions in the Arab World to not remain complacent to developing and improving the scientific publishing domestically and internationally and identifying ways to overcome obstacles and developing appropriate solutions.

The Conference will also discuss the assessment of the scientific publishing in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and will demonstrate the global key performance indicators in this respect. This will act as a guide to the development of the Saudi journals, enhancing the quality of their publications and, finally, qualifying them to be indexed in the international databases.

1. Assess the current situation of publishing in the Arab world.
2. Study the challenges and constraints of publishing in the Arab world and ways to overcome them.
3. Highlight the roles, duties and responsibilities entrusted to the Editors in Chief and members of the Editorial Boards.
4. Demonstrate the domestic and international key performance indicators for research and publishing.
5. Promote a culture of excellence in scientific publishing.