Multilingualism
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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
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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,
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New version of the Resource Type Vocabulary now available
COAR is very pleased to announce the publication of the COAR Resource Type Controlled Vocabulary, Version 3.2. The vocabulary now contains 105 terms that represent the wide variety of scholarly resources that are being deposited, managed, and made available through repositories around the world. Each concept is accompanied by a definition and is related to
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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
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COAR community consultation on managing non-English and multilingual content in repositories
COAR welcomes your input on 16 draft recommendations for managing non-English and multilingual content in repositories. These recommendations were developed by a COAR Task Force and are meant to provide good practice advice on depositing, managing, and curating multilingual and non-English language content in repositories. Multilingualism is a critical characteristic of a healthy, inclusive, and
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Is there a case for accepting machine translated scholarly content in repositories?
May 8, 2023 (Photo by Romain Vignes on Unsplash) Christophe Dony, Iryna Kuchma, Tomasz Neugebauer, Jean-François Nomine, Milica Ševkušić, and Kathleen Shearer Multilingualism is a critical characteristic of a healthy, inclusive, and diverse research communications landscape. However, multilingualism presents a particular challenge for the discovery of research outputs. Although researchers and other information seekers may
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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
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