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  • Emerging Themes and Priority Areas for the Repository Community: Outcomes of the COAR Meetings

    Emerging Themes and Priority Areas for the Repository Community: Outcomes of the COAR Meetings

    June 6 & 7, 2024 The overarching topic of this year’s meeting was “anticipating the repository of the future”. COAR’s vision has always been that the real power of a repository lies in its ability to participate in a larger network which can provide seamless access to content across a distributed ecosystem and offer other Read more

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  • COAR and INFLIBNET agree to launch a community of practice for repositories in India

    COAR and INFLIBNET agree to launch a community of practice for repositories in India

    After two very successful days of meetings with many esteemed local and international representatives, COAR and INFLIBNET are pleased to announce an agreement to work together to coalesce and strengthen the substantial network of open science repositories in India. The meetings, which took place on April 17-18, 2024 at UNESCO offices in New Delhi, were Read more

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  • The Promise and Practice of Open Science – Asia OA Meeting in New Delhi, India

    The Promise and Practice of Open Science – Asia OA Meeting in New Delhi, India

    The critical role of repositories in providing access to research New Delhi, India – April 17-18, 2024 Bi-annually, COAR and a local Asian host organize a meeting to support information sharing and collaboration on open access and open science across Asian countries. This is part of the Asia OA Community of Practice that is hosted Read more

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  • What’s new with COAR Notify?

    What’s new with COAR Notify?

    Implementation partners Two major implementation projects have new, production-ready working implementations of COAR Notify. In early December, it was announced that authors who deposit their preprints into bioRxiv and SciELO Preprints can now send a request for review to the open review service, PREreview. The aim is to expand the functionality to other partner services Read more

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  • New report on the state of repositories in Europe

    New report on the state of repositories in Europe

    Open Science is ushering in a new paradigm for research; one in which all researchers have unprecedented access to the full corpus of research for analysis, text and data mining, and other new research methods. A prerequisite for achieving this vision is a strong and well-functioning network of repositories that provides human and machine access Read more

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  • US Repository Network launches pilot to enhance discoverability of content in repositories

    US Repository Network launches pilot to enhance discoverability of content in repositories

    COAR has been working with the US Repository Network (USRN) to connect and strengthen the position of repositories in the US.  With the advent of the recent OSTP Memorandum requiring Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research – which directs government research funders and agencies to adopt policies that require adopt immediate Read more

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  • Managing multilingual and non-English language content in repositories

    Managing multilingual and non-English language content in repositories

    Multilingualism is critical for a healthy, inclusive, and diverse research communications landscape.  After decades of policies that have directed researchers to publish in English, we are starting to see a reversal of this trend. The UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science, for example, calls on member states to encourage “multilingualism in the practice of science, in Read more

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  • COAR Transition to the Netherlands

    COAR Transition to the Netherlands

    Image credit: Lies Thru a Lens, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons In 2025, all COAR’s operations will transition from the COAR e.V. to the Stichting COAR. COAR was founded in 2009 and has been hosted by Göttingen Library in Germany. We are greatly appreciative of the support we have received by Göttingen Library, without Read more

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  • COAR’s response to the American Chemical Society’s new fee for repository deposit

    COAR’s response to the American Chemical Society’s new fee for repository deposit

    COAR joins a growing chorus of voices (1,2) denouncing a new authors’ fee introduced by the American Chemical Society (ACS), which charges authors $2,500 US for the right to deposit their accepted manuscript into a repository without an embargo period. COAR strongly objects to this charge for the following reasons: Repositories are and should always Read more

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  • Happy Open Access Week 2023!

    Happy Open Access Week 2023!

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