Annual Meetings

  • Presentations from the COAR Annual Conference 2025

    Trends in Policy, Discovery, and Innovation The COAR Annual Conference 2025 took place in Tokyo, Japan on May 12-14, 2025. The conference was jointly organized by COAR, JPCOAR and the National Institute of Informatics (NII) and brought together international and Japanese participants to share experiences, identify priority activities across our communities, and contribute to the

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  • Report from the COAR Annual Conference 2025

    All presentations are online and the recordings from the meeting will be made available in mid-June 2025. The COAR Conference took place in Tokyo, Japan on May 12-15, 2025 and was attended by approximately 140 people representing at least 23 different countries. The meeting was jointly organized by COAR, JPCOAR, and the National Institute of

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  • 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

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  • COAR Annual Meeting 2023

    The COAR Annual Meeting 2023 took place in San José, Costa Rica on May 16-18, 2023. The meeting was hosted by Consejo Nacional de Rectores (CONARE) and is being jointly organized by CONARE, COAR, and LA Referencia.  The theme of the meeting is Sustainability and Innovation in Scholarly Communications. This location is the perfect backdrop for such a meeting

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  • 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,

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  • COAR 2021 Annual Meeting and General Assembly

    COAR 2021 Annual Meeting and General Assembly took place virtually from September 29 – October 1. It was attended by over 160 people and offered a great opportunity to consult  and discuss current COAR initiatives and priorities with members and partners. A brief report of the Annual Meeting is available here Program Wednesday, September 29 UNESCO

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  • Annual Meeting Report and the new COAR Executive Board

    The COAR Annual Meeting and General Assembly took place last week virtually from September 29 – October 1, 2021. It was attended by over 160 people and offered a great opportunity to consult  and discuss current COAR initiatives and priorities with members and partners. The meeting began with a presentation from Dr. Ana Peršić, who

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  • COAR Annual Meeting 2020 is cancelled

    It is with heavy hearts that we inform you that we will be cancelling the COAR Annual Meeting 2020 in Cusco and Lima, Peru. The COAR Executive Board, along with the local organizers: CONCYTEC, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, and LA Referencia, have decided that – due to increasing health risk and travel restrictions for

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  • Report from the COAR Annual Meeting 2019

    The 10th COAR Annual Meeting took place last week in Lyon, France. This was the most well-attended COAR meeting to date, with about 110 participants from over 40 countries. The meeting was an opportunity to take stock of progress related to several of COAR’s major strategic objectives including aligning repository networks, next generation repositories and

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  • COAR 2018 Annual Meeting

    Last week, the COAR Annual Meeting took place from May 14-17, 2018 in Hamburg, Germany. The meeting was filled to capacity and, with representatives from 30 countries, was the most diverse COAR meeting to date. It offered an opportunity for COAR to take stock of the current status of the work being done to build

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