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.
News and Updates
Correcting the Record: The Critical Role of OA Repositories in Open Access and Open Science
OASPA has published several guest posts - including COAR, cOAlition S and Jisc - which are responding to a criticism of green OA by several publisher representatives on their site last week. The COAR …
Input to “Data Repository Selection: Criteria that Matter”
Data Repository Selection: Criteria that Matter are a set of criteria that are being proposed by a group of (mainly) publishers. COAR has a number of concerns about these criteria: Many repositories currently don’t …
COAR Strategy and Work Plan 2021
COAR is pleased to publish our Work Plan for 2021. The activities build on our work of 2020. For 2021 COAR will focus on advancing alignment and interoperability, adopting best practices, promoting the role …
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, …
Upcoming Events
Latest Resources
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 …
Members
COAR is an international association with 157 members and partners from 53 countries, representing libraries, universities, research institutions, government funders and others.
COAR would like to especially thank our supporting members who contribute to COAR’s sustainability by providing extra funding beyond membership fees. Current supporting members of COAR are:
