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Office 302-A1
Dubai, United Arab Emirates

P.O. Box: 23390 Dubai

Phone: +971 4 4390630

Email: info@almanhal.com

For Publishers

Disseminate your publications globally. Boost your royalty. Become a Publishing Partner

Al Manhal, with its one-of-a-kind, intelligent eContent platform extends a significant opportunity to Arabic content publishers for maximizing revenue and global reach.

Enabling a cost-effective and secure framework to publish and distribute electronic content to esteemed libraries across the world, while ensuring the highest standards of quality and security protection.

Why A Manhal?

Increased Global Demand for Scholarly Arabic Content

The demand for online academic content has surged globally. Traditional libraries are increasing their electronic content holdings, where it has become critical for publishers to adapt to the changing times and implement an optimal electronic publishing and distribution infrastructure to thrive.
Al Manhal supports this very end, in sync with the international library and copyright protection standards.

Robust Mechanism to Disseminate Content Effectively

Academic, scientific and research institutions worldwide need academic content from the Arab world and because of the lack of an efficient publishing and distribution channel, the region’s research institutions and publishing houses have been unable to meet the global demand for their content.
Al Manhal provides an efficient mechanism to bridge this gap with the world’s only full-text searchable platform for Arabic electronic content, providing seamless distribution of high quality content from the Arab world’s leading publishing houses and research institutes.

Best in Class Benefits for Publishers

• Arabized Platform 

Al Manhal provides Arab publishers with award-winning full-text search technology that the world’s leading publishers rely on. 
The electronic distribution of content is at par with highest global standards, customized to support the Arabic language and formatting needs.

• New Revenue Streams

Al Manhal’s platform provides its subscribers with flexible options for acquiring content - from annual subscriptions to lower duration subscriptions. The flexibility increases  exposure and revenues streams for publishers choosing to share their content on the platform.

• Digital Rights Management (DRM)

Al Manhal’s platform utilizes trusted Digital Rights Management (DRM) methodologies to guarantee copyright protection without hindering users ability to seamlessly access and use content. 

• Indexing Services 

Al Manhal’s databases are indexed by International Indexing Service Providers. Maximizing the global discovery and usage of content from the platform, as well as amplifying the exposure and royalty potential for each partner publication.

• Royalty and Usage Reports 

Al Manhal is devoted to transparency and accuracy, which form critical cornerstones to successful electronic publishing. 

The platform ensures precise and timely royalties disbursement based on sales and usage of content; and detailed COUNTER compliant usage reports (to the page level).  This allows publishing partners to audit sales figures as well as support the data driven future of publishing and sales strategies.

• Marketing Benefits 

Al Manhal focuses on maximizing the global awareness of publisher brands based on their respective areas of specialization and their compatibility with the customers research needs. 


• Global Sales

Al Manhal’s market reach extends to a global distribution network comprising of over 4,500 libraries, ensuring wide reach and revenue channels.

• CrossRef DOI services for eJournal Publications

Al Manhal creates Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for all its articles and registers them with the CrossRef citation linking network. This new DOI service enables the publishers to meet International Indexing Standards to provide the international scholarly community with easier access to their online research content. As a result, Journals published on the platform tend to receive a higher level of global exposure and usage, which greatly affects their Impact Factors.

Key Benefits of DOI:

-  Provides dependable links that preserve the appropriate scholarly citation.

- Drives traffic and usage as the DOI numbers automatically link content to thousands of other publications and organizations

- Multiplies usage of publications as users are able to easily link from references to other relevant articles.

- Includes ongoing updates for all DOI numbers with no additional cost accruing to publishers.


Comprehensive Digital Publishing Process At Al Manhal

The process of transitioning print holdings to electronic content at Al Manhal is a well-rounded one, comprising of optimal electronic publishing and distribution strategies. 

The steps behind ensuring world class Arabic e-content are described below: 

Figure 1: Digital Publishing Process

Figure 1: Digital Publishing Process

Content Selection

Al Manhal’s content selection is a careful, process-oriented exercise conducted by a specialized team of experienced librarians, editors and the Research and Library Board. 

Backed by experience, extensive market research and actual usage data analysis, all  incoming content is first evaluated against a stringent criteria to extend the most suitable content for library subscribers.


Aggregation and Production: Content Development Process

Post selection comes in the aggregation and content production process. Steps for this include -

Figure 2: Content Development Process
  1. Receive Content: Al Manhal aggregates the highest quality academic and professional content from select publishers adhering to requisite excellence standards.
  2. Manage Content: The selected material then goes through the content production and management process.
    • Production: The content is converted from the incoming format to Al Manhal’s proprietary format and goes through a detailed Quality Assurance process to ensure that the full-text searchable electronic files are exact replicas of the original print publications.
      US Library of Congress compliant metadata and DOIs are applied to all titles.
    • Management: The content is then processed through Al Manhal’s proprietary Content Management System (TPS) and Royalty Management System that transparently and efficiently monitors the sales, usage and due royalties of all titles.
  3. Classification: Publications are classified according to the Dewey Decimal and US Library of Congress classification systems, and indexed by leading International Indexing Engines. The content is then mapped to relevant subject collections in order to ensure discoverability. This process maximizes the benefit for the user, and exposure and royalty potential for the publishers.
  4. Upload eContent: The eContent is then uploaded onto the trusted Al Manhal database.
  6. Post Uploading Checks: Al Manhal also regularly checks publications ensuring that a consistent level of quality is being maintained at all times.

Marketing

Owing to its product excellence combined with world class Marketing Strategies, Al Manhal is globally recognized as the leading Arabic ePublishing solutions provider. Libraries, globally, recognize its publishing partners and portfolio of products.

  1. Regional & Global Presence: Al Manhal is active in participating at global publishing events, book fairs and library exhibitions while diligently promoting the publishers and their content.
    The sales and distribution team actively promote and provide onsite presentations and training to universities, schools and libraries around the world enhancing the reach of the published content.
  2. Marketing Material: Al Manhal leverages various marketing outlets, such as corporate websites, eNewsletters, brochures, flyers, e-campaigns, and social media, to constantly promote its publishers and their products.
  3. Media Publicity: Al Manhal’s global outreach network ensures international exposure for publishers via local and regional events, press releases and the media.

Distribution & Sales

Al Manhal is equipped with a robust sales and distribution network, ensuring an extensive reach across libraries in over 40 countries. 

Currently, the platform caters to the Arabic content needs of over 4500 libraries from esteemed institutions. 

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Consumption

Al Manhal supports an optimum research experience for its subscribing institutions, and in turn, a royalty maximizing opportunity for its publishing partners. 

With the user-friendly design, the portal maximizes the acquisition, access and usage of its databases by its subscribing researchers worldwide.

While complying with the best International Library Standards, it is also backed by advanced intelligent research technologies and e-library methods to make research simpler and more efficient.

Al Manhal’s databases are relied upon by over 450 universities and schools, including esteemed institutions as Georgetown University, University of Qatar, Higher Colleges of Technology, Saudi Ministry of Higher Education, Abu Dhabi Education Council, etc. Nearly 1,000,000 students in the Middle East and USA are using Al Manhal content daily, and in turn maximizing usage royalties for the publishers.

Publishers Royalties

Al Manhal ensures guaranteed royalties to publishers based on the inclusion of their content in Al Manhal’s databases. Publishers also receive additional royalties based on the usage of their content across the fast-growing customer base.