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… Read more: COAR Launches the International Repository Directory

March 12, 2025 – Today, LIBER, OpenAIRE, SPARC Europe, and COAR are publishing a plan of action to strengthen and future-proof research repositories in Europe.  A robust repository network is key for safeguarding Europe’s research production and advancing scientific excellence in Europe. And while currently, Europe has one… Read more: Action Plan for Open Repositories in Europe: IMPACT-REPO

Today, COAR and ASAPbio are pleased to announce the publication of “Ten Recommended Practices for Managing Preprints in Generalist and Institutional Repositories”. As preprint sharing becomes more common, we need a cohesive and sustainable ecosystem to support researchers around the world. Currently, there are numerous gaps in geographic… Read more: Ten Recommended Practices for Managing Preprints in Generalist and Institutional Repositories

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… Read more: CCSD and COAR announce the launch of a preprint directory

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,… Read more: COAR Releases Community Framework for Good Practices in Repositories, Version 2

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,… Read more: Open Consultation – COAR Community Framework for Best Practices in Repositories

We are pleased to announce the release of version 3.0 of the resource types vocabulary. Since 2015, three COAR Controlled Vocabularies have been developed and are maintained by the Controlled Vocabulary Editorial Board: Resource types, access rights and version types.  These vocabularies have a new look and are now being managed using the… Read more: COAR releases resource types vocabulary version 3.0 for repositories with new look and feel

COAR Repository Toolkit is now updated with new resources. We invite you to visit the Toolkit to access the best practices and educational resources including websites, guides, videos, infographics and others. The Repository Toolkit was launched in the fall of 2018. The aim is to provide repository managers with best practices and educational… Read more: COAR Repository Toolkit

COAR is very pleased to announce the release of the COAR Community Framework for Best Practices in Repositories. The purpose of the framework is to assist repositories in evaluating and improving their current operations based on a set of applicable and achievable good practices. Currently, there are a number… Read more: COAR Community Framework for Best Practices in Repositories

COAR is pleased to share with you a proposed model for a standard approach to peer review of resources in repositories. The proposed model, prepared by Paul Walk, Martin Klein, Herbert Van de Sompel, and Kathleen Shearer with input from use case contributors, is open for public comment until September 11,… Read more: Overlay model for peer review on repositories