Sep 03 Inviting community input – Pubfair
COAR is inviting community feedback on a white paper authored by Tony Ross-Hellauer, Benedikt Fecher, Kathleen Shearer and Eloy Rodrigues. The white paper, entitled Pubfair – A Framework for Sustainable, Distributed, Open Science Publishing Services, provides the rationale and describes the high … Continue reading
Jul 22 New release of the COAR Controlled Vocabulary, “Resource Type”
COAR is pleased to announce the release of the Resource Type Vocabulary, Version 2. This vocabulary, which is now available in 15 languages, provides standardized terms for different types of content contained in a repository. Controlled vocabularies ensure that “everyone … Continue reading
Jul 01 New COAR members from Costa Rica and El Salvador
COAR is pleased to welcome two new members from Latin America: CONARE, the National Council of Rectors in Costa Rica and the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, MINEDUCYT, from El Salvador. This strengthens and expands the Latin American presence … Continue reading
Jun 04 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 … Continue reading
Recent Highlights
- Good Practice Principles for Scholarly Communications Services
- 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
