Sep 12 COAR’s response to Plan S
On September 4, 2018, a coalition of research funders in Europe published Plan S, an ambitious plan to accelerate Open Access in Europe. COAR welcomes the strong stance taken towards open access by a coalition of 11 European Funders, coordinated … Continue reading
Jul 26 Peru Repository Workshop
Last week, COAR participated in a training event organized by DuraSpace and CONCYTEC, the Peruvian Council for Science and Technological Information. The aim of the workshop was to help increase expertise for managing repositories at Peruvian universities and was attended … Continue reading
Jun 14 Adoption of NGR technologies in repository platforms
On June 6, 2018 COAR held a meeting of open source repository platforms to talk about the implementation of technical recommendations in the COAR Next Generation Repositories Report. The meeting was held in conjunction with the Open Repositories Conference in … Continue reading
Jun 06 COAR and DuraSpace enter into partnership
From left to right: Daniel Bernstein (DuraSpace), Kathleen Shearer (COAR), Michele Mennielli (DuraSpace), Tim Donohue (DSpace), Eloy Rodrigues (COAR), David Wilcox (Fedora) COAR and DuraSpace are pleased to announce the launch of a collaborative partnership. Both organizations believe in 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
