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A national platform for open-access scholarly publishing.

About BD Research Hub

A national platform amplifying Bangladeshi scholarship through open access, indexing, and editorial excellence.

Our mission

To make Bangladeshi research openly accessible — and globally discoverable.

BD Research Hub was founded on the conviction that scholarly output from low- and middle-income countries deserves the same global visibility as work published in international venues. We host 47 peer-reviewed journals across medicine, engineering, agriculture, social sciences, humanities, public health, and law — published by Bangladesh's leading universities and research institutes.

All articles are freely available under Creative Commons licenses, indexed in DOAJ, Crossref, and Google Scholar, and assigned persistent DOIs. We provide editorial training, technical infrastructure, and indexing support to journals at no cost — sustained through institutional partnerships and grant funding.

Principle 01

Open by default

All hosted journals operate under open-access licenses. No paywalls, no embargoes, no reader fees — ever.

Principle 02

Rigorous peer review

Every article passes double-blind review by domain experts. We support editors with workflow tools, training, and conflict-of-interest screening.

Principle 03

Persistent & discoverable

Every article gets a Crossref DOI and is preserved in the PKP Preservation Network. Designed to outlast our infrastructure.

Editorial advisory board

Senior scholars guiding our editorial standards

Our advisory board includes leading academics from across Bangladesh and the diaspora, providing oversight on editorial policy, indexing strategy, and emerging research areas.

FZ
Chair · Medicine

Prof. Fatema Zohra

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University
AR
Vice-Chair · Engineering

Prof. Ahmed Rahman

BUET, Department of Civil Engineering
SH
Member · Agriculture

Dr. Shahnaz Huda

Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh
RK
Member · Social Sciences

Prof. Rounaq Khan

Dhaka University, Department of Sociology
NA
Member · Public Health

Dr. Nazneen Ahmed

icddr,b · Health Systems Research
TC
Member · Humanities

Prof. Tanvir Chowdhury

Jahangirnagar University, Department of English
MI
Member · Law

Prof. Mahmudul Islam

Dhaka University, Faculty of Law
SB
Member · Diaspora

Prof. Sadia Begum

University of Toronto · Public Policy
Platform team

People who run the platform

A small operational team handles editorial coordination, technical infrastructure, indexing partnerships, and author/editor support.

Director
Dr. Asif Mahmud
a.mahmud@bdresearch.hub
Editorial Coordinator
Lutfa Begum
editorial@bdresearch.hub
Technical Lead
Tanveer Hossain
tech@bdresearch.hub
Indexing Officer
Sadika Akter
indexing@bdresearch.hub
Author Support
Rashed Khan
support@bdresearch.hub
Communications
Mehnaz Karim
comms@bdresearch.hub
Built on open infrastructure

Open Journal Systems · OJS 3.4 LTS

BD Research Hub runs on Open Journal Systems, the leading open-source platform for scholarly publishing. Developed by the Public Knowledge Project at Simon Fraser University, OJS powers more than 30,000 journals worldwide.

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