Next Generation Repositories
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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
COAR’s October 2022 interview of Psicológica journal lead Pandelis Perakakis includes a step-by-step breakdown of that journal’s low-cost, replicable editorial 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…
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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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Expanding our global capacity for preprint sharing
Preliminary results from a COAR and ASAPbio survey of preprints in institutional and generalist repositories All new knowledge is built on the shoulders of previous knowledge. As such, the pace of discovery is determined according to how quickly research can be shared. As a complement to the valuable (but often slow) process of peer-review publishing,…
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ASAPbio / COAR Survey on Preprint Sharing in Repositories
ASAPbio and COAR are inviting institutional and other generalist repositories to fill in this survey about preprint sharing in repositories. The aggregate results of the survey will be made publicly available via our websites. The survey will only take about 5 minutes, and is open until September 10, 2021. The aim of this survey is to assess the…
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COAR launches strategy to modernize the global repository network
The trend towards open science / open scholarship is strengthening and expanding. The COVID-19 pandemic has made open scholarship a top priority for governments and the research community around the world and there is a growing recognition about the need for greater equity in scholarly communications, as underscored in the UNESCO draft recommendations which were…
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COAR Launches the “Notify Project”
COAR is pleased to announce the launch of a new project, Notify: The Repositories and Services Interoperability Project This project builds on previous work of COAR to advance the vision first outlined in the COAR Next Generation Repositories Initiative – to position repositories as the foundation for a distributed, globally networked infrastructure for scholarly communication, on top of…