Next Generation Repositories
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How innovative new practices are helping transform scholarly publishing
Kathleen Shearer, COAR Executive Director In today’s fast-paced world where new discoveries emerge at an ever-increasing rate, delays of 12–24 months in accessing research articles – many of which are taxpayer-funded – are no longer acceptable. Furthermore, as public trust in research declines in some countries, it is crucial to adopt a more efficient and
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The Expanding COAR Notify Ecosystem: Project Update
May 5, 2025 The COAR Notify Project has passed the halfway point of the 4-year project funded by Arcadia. In the past 2.5 years, the COAR Notify team has made significant progress in terms of adoption of the COAR Notify Protocol, with several developments still ongoing and several new ones in the pipeline. This post
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COAR Notify Update
Want to learn more? Register below for one of our webinars in January 2025 for a more detailed update and discussion. Summary of work to date As of December 2024, we are half way through the COAR Notify Project. Over the last 2.5 years, we have made significant progress with over a dozen services and
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Transforming scholarly publishing through the Publish, Review, Curate model
On October 29-30, 2024, COAR organised a strategic meeting to discuss how to accelerate the adoption of the Publish, Review, Curate model of scholarly publishing. The meeting was part of the COAR Notify Project and was hosted by the CCSD (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) in Lyon, France. Publish, Review, Curate (PRC) is
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COAR Notify: overview of year one
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 review services. COAR Notify was launched in 2021, and was awarded a significant grant from Arcadia, a charitable foundation that works to protect
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The COAR Notify Developers’ Handbook now available
The COAR Notify Team is compiling a COAR Notify Developers’ Handbook, and an early iteration is now available online. The Handbook is intended to support the growing community of developers considering or actively implementing the COAR Notify protocol. It offers guidance on implementing the COAR Notify Protocol at a technical level. It may also be
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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
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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
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CCSD and COAR announce plans to launch preprint directory
February 1, 2022 – The Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe (CCSD) of France and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) are pleased to announce their formal collaboration to launch a directory of open access preprint repositories. Preprints are becoming an increasingly important part of the research communications landscape. Posting preprints allows researchers to
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Delving deeper into preprints in institutional and generalist repositories
Image from Infographics by ASAPbio Fellows: Ana Dorrego-Rivas (@adorrego_r), Carrie Iwema and Mafalda Pimentel (@Maf_Pimentel) As open scholarship practices grow, dedicated preprint servers are springing up in many disciplines. However, researchers are also depositing preprints in other platforms, including institutional and generalist repositories. These destinations can be familiar to researchers and well-integrated into the scholarly
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