Omani Studies Centre
Established in 1998 by a decree of the Sultan Qaboos University President, the Omani Studies Centre (OSC) serves as the nation’s premier archive of records about the Sultanate of Oman. Whether historic, scientific, literary, economic, theological, political, or social, the mission of the OSC is to collect, preserve, and make available records related to the sultanate, to facilitate and promote research about the country and its people. The OSC functions also as the institutional archive for Sultan Qaboos University. Centre Director is Dr. Mohsin Al-Kindi, recently appointed to the post.
Records in the collection may originate from sources within or outside the country of Oman, in the Arabic language including various local dialects, German, French, or English. Types of records in the collection are:
a) Published works of fiction, and non-fiction (approximately 3,000 titles),
b) Masters’ theses and doctoral dissertations produced by students of the Sultan Qaboos University (approximately 200),
c) Non-current historic records documenting the activities of students, faculty, and administrators of the university in its 21-year history,
d) Audio recordings in MP3, or audio cassette format,
e) Video recordings, and
f) Digital images or photographs.
The converted villa on the campus of Sultan Qaboos University in which the Centre resides occupies ~ 4,000 square feet (~ 372 square meters). The facility provides four floors of space for the Centre’s library, research rooms, and personnel offices. The library occupies approximately 1,000 square feet (~ 93 square meters) on the second floor. The Centre library is open for research during regular business hours, 8:00a.m. to 2:00p.m, Saturday through Wednesday (the regular business week in Oman).
In mid- 2008, the OSC is scheduled to move into its new purpose-built facility on the east end of campus, to provide additional room to unite it with the Oman Collection of the Sultan Qaboos University Main Library. The Oman Collection consists of:
b) serials published by one of eleven governmental ministries, or departments of the Omani government,
c) periodical articles about Oman which appear in Arabic- or English-language journals, magazines, or newspapers,
d) Master’s theses and doctoral dissertations about Oman produced by students of Sultan Qaboos University, or written by Omani nationals studying outside of the country,
e) Geographical and city maps about Oman, produced by the National Survey Authority (http://www.omanet.om/english/government/Defence.asp), a department of the Ministry of Defense, as well as those acquired from other sources,
f) Omani National Standards, as well as those from outside of the country, andg) Microforms.
Contact Information
Omani Studies Centre (OSC), Sultan Qaboos University, P.O. Box 50 Al-Khoudh, Muscat, Oman Postal Code 123. osc@squ.edu.om.
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Thank you for your effort to provide others with the researches ,theses and dissertation. I very much willing to read more of the publications you got from the SQU to assert me to choose my research topic
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