Sep 28 COAR Webinar: Controlled Vocabularies, October 4th
COAR is pleased to announce a webinar on the topic of “Controlled Vocabularies”.The webinar is initiated by COAR Controlled Vocabularies Interest Group (CVIG). CVIG is planning series of webinars to provide training and raising awareness on controlled vocabularies. The sessions will target the broader repository and research information infrastructure community … Continue reading
Sep 28 More on the future of repositories – response to Richard Poynder
“The reports of our death have been greatly exaggerated” (to paraphrase Mark Twain) Although I agree with some of what Richard Poynder writes in the introduction to his recent interview with Cliff Lynch published on September 22, 2016, I do … Continue reading
Sep 28 COAR offers a webinar for Open Access Week: Next Generation Repositories
COAR is pleased to offer a free webinar for Open Access Week on the topic of “Next Generation Repositories”. COAR invites you to join us for presentations and a discussion about the future potential for repositories in the coming years. … Continue reading
Jul 19 COAR Webinar and Discussion Series
COAR is pleased to announce the first session in the members-only COAR Webinar and Discussion Series, which aims to provide information about the latest trends and topics in open access and repositories. The first session will feature Oya Rieger, Associate … Continue reading
Recent highlights
- Joint COAR-UNESCO Statement on Open Access
- Videos and slides from the COAR Annual Meeting – April 2016 in Vienna, Austria
- 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
