King Saud University Translation

What are the Objectives of the King Saud University Translation Center ? Also provide the Services offered at Translation Center.

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The Translation Center at King Saud University directly affiliated with the Vice Rectorate and the Academic Council for Graduate Studies and Research.

Objectives of the Center:

• Encourage faculty and staff to translate reference materials books, and research literature.
• Translate valuable Arabic books and research into foreign languages.
• Translate (into Arabic) classical scientific works whose Arabic originals no longer exist.
• Promote and support the Arabization of academic materials, by disseminating , standardizing, unifying, academic terminologies.
• Establish a schedule for the translation Arabization of textbooks and reference materials needed at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
• Translate major scholarly periodicals and pertinent research papers.
• Develop computer applications for translation and terminology.
Services:
• Center obtains the translation rights from publishers and pays the necessary royalties.

• Pays the expenses for the original figures and diagrams

• Provides translators with available references and dictionaries

• Provides translators with advice regarding various technical and procedural aspects of translation.

• When translations are approved, the center then recommends to the University its publication.

Contact Details:
Translation Center
King Saud University P.O. BOX 2454
Riyadh 11451
Director: 4675634
Secretary: 4675577, 4675605
Fax: 4678633
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.