Jan 10 Webinar on Plan S and Repositories
COAR provided a response on the guidance on the implementation of the Plan S on December 13th and hosted a webinar with the repository community today to discuss Plan S requirements and the potential implications of them for repositories. Kathleen … Continue reading
Dec 13 COAR’s response to draft implementation requirements in Plan S
The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) reiterates our support for the goal of Plan S to achieve “immediate Open Access to all scholarly publications from research” and we appreciate the opportunity to provide feedback on the guidance on the … Continue reading
Dec 10 From Open Access to Open Science: Supporting the Transition to Managing Research Data
COAR hosted a members-only webinar on 5 December on role of open repositories in research data management (RDM). RDM is a large component of open science, and the role of repositories is crucial in supporting RDM. Many repository services that … Continue reading
Nov 14 COAR in Africa
COAR, with other partners including WACREN (West and Central African Research and Education Network) and EIFL, is coordinating a repository workshop in Zanzibar, Tanzania on November 19-20, 2018. This is the first in a series of meetings to develop a … Continue reading
Recent Highlights
- Behaviours and Technical Recommendations of the COAR Next Generation Repositories Working Group
- Joint COAR-UNESCO Statement on Open Access
- Promoting Open Knowledge and Open Science – Report of the Current State of Repositories
- COAR Guidelines for Assessing Publishers’ Repository Services
- Statement against Elsevier’s sharing policy
