Nov 14 COAR in Africa
COAR, with other partners including WACREN (West and Central African Research and Education Network) and EIFL, is coordinating a repository workshop in Zanzibar, Tanzania on November 19-20, 2018. This is the first in a series of meetings to develop a … Continue reading
Nov 14 News from Latin America
We would like to give you an update about meetings that COAR Executive Director, Kathleen Shearer attended two weeks ago in Santiago, Chile. The meetings were organized by LA Referencia and the Licensing Consortia from Latin America and the Caribbean. … Continue reading
Nov 09 Save the date! COAR Annual Meeting 2019
COAR Annual Meeting May 21-23, 2019 Lyon, France The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and the Center for Direct Scientific Communication (CCSD) are pleased to announce that the next COAR Annual Meeting will take place … Continue reading
Nov 01 Engaging the research community with repository services
One of the most challenging aspects of managing a repository is to raise the visibility of repository services in order to ensure researchers are contributing their research outputs. In our recent survey of COAR members, “engaging with the research community” … 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
