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
Communiqué: Meeting participants agree to work together on a technical architecture for distributed peer review on repository resources
On January 23-24, 2020, COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories) convened a meeting to investigate the potential for a common, distributed architecture that would connect peer review with resources in repositories. The aim of …
COAR Annual Meeting – Lima, Peru – April 20 to 24, 2020
The next COAR Annual Meeting, Fostering Diversity in Scholarly Communication, will be held in Cusco and Lima, Peru on April 20-24, 2020. The meeting is being jointly organized by COAR, CONCYTEC, Universidad Peruana de …
Is overlay peer review the future of scholarly communications?
You may have seen the paper published recently by COAR presenting a distributed framework for open publishing services called Pubfair (version 2, after community input), also available in Spanish.Pubfair is a conceptual model for a modular, …
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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Latest Resources
Pubfair, disponible en español
Muchas gracias a Gonzalo Villarreal por la traducción! Pubfair: Un marco de referencia distribuído para servicios de publicación abiertos Versión 2, 27 de noviembre de 2019 Por Tony Ross-Hellauer, Benedikt Fecher, Kathleen Shearer, y …
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:
