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  • COAR Announces first recommendation for supporting multilingual and non-English content in repositories

    COAR Announces first recommendation for supporting multilingual and non-English content in repositories

    Multilingualism is a critical characteristic of a healthy, inclusive, and diverse research communications landscape. The Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication asserts that the disqualification of local or national languages in academic publishing is the most important – and often forgotten – factor that prevents societies from using and taking advantage of the research Read more

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  • Case Study: Psicológica Overlay Journal Workflow

    Case Study: Psicológica Overlay Journal Workflow

    Psicológica is a ‘do it yourself’ overlay journal with content hosted on the Spanish National Repository, Digital.CSIC. The Spanish Society for Experimental Psychology moved their journal, Psicológica, from a traditional model to an overlay journal model. The editors and board of the journal are committed to a sustainable path for open scholarship and the overlay model reduced the cost of running Read more

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  • Update on the COAR Notify Initiative: Advancing Innovation in Scholarly Communications

    Update on the COAR Notify Initiative: Advancing Innovation in Scholarly Communications

    The COAR Notify Initiative is developing and accelerating community adoption of a standard, interoperable, and decentralised approach to linking research outputs hosted in the distributed network of repositories with resources from external services such as overlay-journals and open peer review services. The COAR Notify Protocol, which builds on the established Linked Data Notifications and ActivityStreams2 Read more

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  • CCSD and COAR announce the launch of a preprint directory

    CCSD and COAR announce the launch of a preprint directory

    October 5, 2022: The Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe (CCSD) of France and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) are pleased to announce the launch of a directory of open access preprint repositories. Preprints are becoming an increasingly important part of the research communications landscape. Posting preprints allows researchers to share their research Read more

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  • Transformative agreements are not the key to open access

    Transformative agreements are not the key to open access

    This editorial was originally published on the Times Higher Education website on August 9, 2022 Without a fuller embrace of repositories, the transition with be slow, partial and siloed, says Kathleen Shearer Kathleen Shearer The Plan S requirement for immediate open access has further fuelled the debate. In a recent article published in Times Higher Education, Springer Read more

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  • COAR Releases Community Framework for Good Practices in Repositories, Version 2

    COAR Releases Community Framework for Good Practices in Repositories, Version 2

    COAR is pleased to announce the release of the COAR Community Framework for Good Practices in Repositories, Version 2 The aim of the Framework is to provide a global, multidimensional framework for good practices in repositories that can be applied to different types of repositories (publication, institutional, data, etc.) and across geographical and thematic contexts. Read more

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  • COAR Annual Meeting 2022

    COAR Annual Meeting 2022

    The COAR Annual Meeting 2022 took place from May 17-May 20 in hybrid format, with about 30 in-person attendees and over 100 online participants over the course of the three days. The meeting took place in Madrid and was hosted in Madrid by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). The theme of the meeting was, Read more

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  • COAR welcomes significant funding for the Notify Project

    COAR welcomes significant funding for the Notify Project

    Wednesday, May 18, 2022 Madrid, Spain: We are delighted to announce that COAR has been awarded a US$4 million grant from Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. The 4 year grant will go towards the COAR Notify Project, which is developing and implementing a standard protocol for connecting the content in Read more

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  • Research repositories should be exempted from the European Digital Services Act

    Research repositories should be exempted from the European Digital Services Act

    On April 5, through a joint statement, COAR joined several other European organizations to call for an exclusion for not-for-profit repositories, digital archives, and libraries from the obligations of the Digital Services Act (DSA). The Digital Services Act aims to regulate social media and other content sharing platforms and provide a legal instrument that can Read more

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  • Open Consultation – COAR Community Framework for Best Practices in Repositories

    Open Consultation – COAR Community Framework for Best Practices in Repositories

    We are seeking community input until March 20, 2022 The Framework brings together relevant criteria developed by other communities (and refined by the COAR Repository Assessment Working Group) into a global, multidimensional framework for assessing best practices that can be adopted and used by different types of repositories (publication, institutional, data, etc.) and in different geographical and Read more

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