Repositories and Publishing
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Reimagining scholarly publishing: outcomes from a public forum to discuss the Publish, Review, Curate publishing model
Photo: PRC supporters’ workshop At a meeting held on the 3rd December 2025 at Kings College, Cambridge over 50 delegates, comprising researchers, publishers, librarians, research funders and scholarly communication infrastructure providers, came together to discuss the Publish, Review, Curate (PRC) publishing model. The meeting, which was organised by COAR and the University of Cambridge Library
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Publish, Review, Curate: Turning scholarly publishing on its head
Tired of long delays, expensive fees, and a lack of transparency about editorial decisions when publishing your articles? Join us at King’s College, Cambridge on December 3rd for an in-depth discussion about a better future for scholarly publishing using the Publish, Review, Curate model. Publish, Review, Curate (PRC) is an umbrella term for scholarly publishing
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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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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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What’s new with COAR Notify?
Implementation partners Two major implementation projects have new, production-ready working implementations of COAR Notify. In early December, it was announced that authors who deposit their preprints into bioRxiv and SciELO Preprints can now send a request for review to the open review service, PREreview. The aim is to expand the functionality to other partner services
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COAR welcomes the Council of EU Conclusions on High-quality, Transparent, Open, Trustworthy and Equitable Scholarly Publishing
As a major voice for repositories at the international level, COAR joins other organizations in welcoming the Council of European Union’s Conclusions on high-quality, transparent, open, trustworthy and equitable scholarly publishing, which highlight the importance of not-for-profit, scholarly open access publishing models. Over the past several years, the international community has been moving towards open
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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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Ten Recommended Practices for Managing Preprints in Generalist and Institutional Repositories
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 and domain coverage and some authors will
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Preprints and Working Papers
Preprint sharing has become an increasingly common practice; one which has greatly expanded since the COVID-19 pandemic. Posting a preprint makes an article quickly and freely available to everyone (while the published version may take months and be behind a paywall) and opens the manuscript up for transparent community review. The move towards greater preprint
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