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  • Reimagining scholarly publishing: outcomes from a public forum to discuss the Publish, Review, Curate publishing model

    Reimagining scholarly publishing: outcomes from a public forum to discuss the Publish, Review, Curate publishing model

    Photo: PRC supporters’ workshop At a meeting held on the 3rd December 2025 at Kings College, Cambridge over 50 delegates, comprising researchers, publishers, librarians, research funders and scholarly communication infrastructure providers, came together to discuss the Publish, Review, Curate (PRC) publishing model. The meeting, which was organised by COAR and the University of Cambridge Library Read more

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  • Strategic Analysis of the Scholarly CommunicationsLandscape

    Strategic Analysis of the Scholarly CommunicationsLandscape

    Kathleen Shearer, Executive Director, COAR  November 27, 2025  This report presents a brief overview of the socio-political landscape for scholarly communications and describes some of the major forces that could significantly impact the repository ecosystem in the coming years. The aim is to provide COAR members with a synopsis of current trends that may affect Read more

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  • Open Call for Innovative Uses of COAR Notify

    Open Call for Innovative Uses of COAR Notify

    The COAR Notify Protocol is a set of profiles, constraints and conventions around the use of W3C Linked Data Notifications (LDN) to integrate repository systems with relevant services in a distributed, resilient and web-native architecture.  The COAR Notify Initiative is developing and accelerating community adoption of a standard, interoperable, and decentralised approach to link research Read more

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  • Can Semantic Multilingual Search Improve the Accessibility of Research Outputs Across Languages? A COAR Proposal

    Can Semantic Multilingual Search Improve the Accessibility of Research Outputs Across Languages? A COAR Proposal

    Today, COAR is published a paper presenting a very promising new approach for multilingual discovery, called multilingual semantic search. We want your opinion! Scholarly knowledge is created and shared through a wide range of sources — repositories, journals, data platforms, and other scholarly information systems — and in hundreds of languages. Yet, most discovery tools Read more

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  • Publish, Review, Curate: Turning scholarly publishing on its head

    Publish, Review, Curate: Turning scholarly publishing on its head

    Tired of long delays, expensive fees, and a lack of transparency about editorial decisions when publishing your articles? Join us at King’s College, Cambridge on December 3rd for an in-depth discussion about a better future for scholarly publishing using the Publish, Review, Curate model. Publish, Review, Curate (PRC) is an umbrella term for scholarly publishing Read more

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  • Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand meeting summary

    Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand meeting summary

    On October 17, 2025, COAR and Open Access Australasia co-hosted a meeting on shared repository infrastructure, moderated by Martin Borchert and Kathleen Shearer. The discussion focused on the evolving repository landscape in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand and the growing international movement toward shared platforms. As in many other countries, institutions in the region are Read more

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  • Breaking language barriers in science through semantic multilingual search

    Breaking language barriers in science through semantic multilingual search

    September 8, 2025 by Lautaro Matas and Kathleen Shearer Introduction Every day, researchers around the world publish knowledge in hundreds of languages — Spanish in Argentina, Portuguese in Brazil, Arabic in Egypt, Japanese in Japan, Swahili in Kenya. This linguistic diversity is not a side note; it is the lifeblood of global scholarship. And yet, Read more

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  • COAR Notify now available to ePrints users

    COAR Notify now available to ePrints users

    We are pleased to announce that the COAR Notify functionality is now available to ePrints users. COAR Notify implementation will allow ePrints repositories to establish relationships between an article (or other type of object) in the repository, with a related resource, such as a dataset or peer review, in another COAR Notify-enabled platform It will Read more

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  • COAR Launches AI Bots and Repositories Task Force

    COAR Launches AI Bots and Repositories Task Force

    There are a growing number of aggressive crawlers interacting with repositories. While many crawlers are rather innocuous, others are sufficiently aggressive that they are increasingly causing service disruptions in repositories. A survey undertaken by COAR in April 2025 found that 90% of respondents indicated their repository is encountering aggressive crawlers (referred here colloquially as “AI Read more

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  • COAR Launches the International Repository Directory

    COAR Launches the International Repository Directory

    On July 8, 2025, COAR officially launched the COAR International Repository Directory (IRD). The IRD will act as an authoritative source of information about repositories, providing the community with an accurate and timely record of the current repository landscape. This is more important than ever now that many countries are moving rapidly to widespread open Read more

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