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
Supporting the “A” in FAIR. Improving machine access to repository resources through the adoption of signposting
What is signposting? Signposting is a standardized way of presenting information about a scholarly resource in a repository record, or other type of information provider, that allows machines to identify where the full text …
Survey of repository aggregators
If you run an aggregator service, COAR would like to invite you to respond to this short, bilingual (English/Spanish) survey. There is a growing number of national and regional repository aggregator networks that harvest …
COAR Annual Meeting 2020 is cancelled
It is with heavy hearts that we inform you that we will be cancelling the COAR Annual Meeting 2020 in Cusco and Lima, Peru. The COAR Executive Board, along with the local organizers: CONCYTEC, …
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
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:
