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
Open science in the time of COVID-19: Let’s not return to business as usual when the pandemic is over!
COVID-19 has led to rapid and open sharing of research outputs. But will this new, radically open research communications paradigm result in permanent change? On September 24, the COAR Executive Board members and Executive …
COAR Forum on COVID-19, Open Science, and Repositories
On September 10, 2020, COAR hosted a 2-hour forum highlighting the role of open science and open repositories in the context of COVID-19. The forum showcased several collaborative initiatives from around the world aiming …
Overlay model for peer review on repositories – open for public comment
COAR is pleased to share with you a proposed model for a standardised approach to peer review of resources in repositories. Public commenting is open from August 4 to September 11, 2020 The proposed …
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, …
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Overlay model for peer review on repositories – open for public comment
COAR is pleased to share with you a proposed model for a standardised approach to peer review of resources in repositories. Public commenting is open from August 4 to September 11, 2020 The proposed …
Members
COAR is an international association with 158 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:
