COAR is an international association that brings together individual repositories and repository networks in order to build capacity, align policies and practices, and act as a global voice for the repository community.
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COAR Annual Meeting – Lima, Peru – April 20-24, 2020
The next COAR Annual Meeting and General Assembly will be held in Lima, Peru on April 23-24, 2020 The theme of the meeting this year will be Fostering Diversity in Scholarly Communication Diversity is …
Is overlay peer review the future of scholarly communications?
You may have seen the paper published recently by COAR presenting a distributed framework for open publishing services called Pubfair (version 2, after community input), also available in Spanish.Pubfair is a conceptual model for a modular, …
Pubfair, disponible en español
Muchas gracias a Gonzalo Villarreal por la traducción! Pubfair: Un marco de referencia distribuído para servicios de publicación abiertos Versión 2, 27 de noviembre de 2019 Por Tony Ross-Hellauer, Benedikt Fecher, Kathleen Shearer, y …
What we do
Our Collective Voice
COAR acts as the international voice for the repository community, and promotes the vision of an inclusive and sustainable …
Repositories and Publishing
One priority use case for COAR is the development of overlay services on the distributed repository network is peer-review …
Next Generation Repositories
Next Generation Repositories (NGRs) is an ongoing initiative of COAR to identify common behaviours, protocols and technologies that will …
Training and Capacity Building
Providing support for the Open Access repository community is an important objective for COAR. COAR participates in numerous conferences, …
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Pubfair, disponible en español
Muchas gracias a Gonzalo Villarreal por la traducción! Pubfair: Un marco de referencia distribuído para servicios de publicación abiertos Versión 2, 27 de noviembre de 2019 Por Tony Ross-Hellauer, Benedikt Fecher, Kathleen Shearer, y …
Members
COAR is an international association with 159 members and partners from 53 countries, representing libraries, universities, research institutions, government funders and others.