Training and Capacity Building
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COAR Repository Toolkit
COAR Repository Toolkit is now updated with new resources. We invite you to visit the Toolkit to access the best practices and educational resources including websites, guides, videos, infographics and others. The Repository Toolkit was launched in the fall of 2018. The aim is to provide repository managers with best practices and educational resources to support interoperability, discoverability and the
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COAR Community Framework for Best Practices in Repositories
COAR is very pleased to announce the release of the COAR Community Framework for Best Practices in Repositories. The purpose of the framework is to assist repositories in evaluating and improving their current operations based on a set of applicable and achievable good practices. Currently, there are a number of existing frameworks and evaluation criteria that
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COAR Forum on COVID-19, Open Science, and Repositories
On September 10, 2020, COAR hosted a 2-hour forum highlighting the role of open science and open repositories in the context of COVID-19. The forum showcased several collaborative initiatives from around the world aiming to improve the discovery of, and access to, COVID-19 research outputs. Participants learned about three projects from different regions, followed by an
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Report from the African LIBSENSE 3 Workshop
On April 24-26, 2019 the 3rd LIBSENSE workshop took place in Tunis, Tunisia. The workshop was organized by ASREN (Arabic States Research and Education Network), in conjunction with WACREN, COAR and EIFL. The LIBSENSE initiative is a collaboration between the three African Regional Research and Education Networks (RRENs) and the AfricaConnect2 project. It aims to build a
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Asia OA 2019 Meeting in Dhaka, Bangladesh
On March 6-7, 2019, we had the COAR Asia 2019 meeting in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The meeting was hosted by Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council (BARC) and was well attended by government representatives, national open access advocates, local researchers and librarians, as well as several members of the Bangladesh parliament. The event was covered by the local
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Africa Libsense workshop – building library/NREN collaborations for open science
On March 11-12, 2019, COAR also participated in the second Libsense workshop organized by WACREN (West and Central African Research and Education Network). The program was developed by WACREN, EIFL and COAR, with support from OpenAIRE and the National Institutes for Informatics (NII) in Japan. The LIBSENSE initiative aims to nurture and develop collaborations between
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Peru Repository Workshop
Last week, COAR participated in a training event organized by DuraSpace and CONCYTEC, the Peruvian Council for Science and Technological Information. The aim of the workshop was to help increase expertise for managing repositories at Peruvian universities and was attended by over 130 people, with another 120 people watching it on the live stream. The
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Librarian Competencies in Support of Research Data Management, Scholarly Communication, Open Access
A joint task force has released two profiles of competencies that library professionals need in order to support new roles—one profile for research data management (PDF) and the other for scholarly communication and open access (PDF). The profiles will help library managers identify skills gaps in their institutions, form the basis of job descriptions, enable
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