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
Making Sense of the Metadata Muddle
The potential to create a unified body of scholarly materials is reliant on interoperability – specifically, that repositories follow consistent guidelines, protocols, and standards that allow them to communicate with each other and with …
Fostering diversity in open scholarship
The theme for OA week this year is “Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge” Diversity is an important characteristic of any healthy ecosystem, including scholarly communications. Diversity in services, platforms, funding mechanisms, and …
COAR and cOAlition S Supporting Repositories to Comply with Plan S
COAR and cOAlition S share a common aim to accelerate the transition to full and immediate Open Access to scholarly publications and COAR supports the vision and principles outlined in Plan S. Repositories offer …
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
Inviting community input – Pubfair
COAR is inviting community feedback on a white paper authored by Tony Ross-Hellauer, Benedikt Fecher, Kathleen Shearer and Eloy Rodrigues. The white paper, entitled Pubfair – A Framework for Sustainable, Distributed, Open Science Publishing Services, provides …
Members
COAR is an international association with 153 members and partners from 50 countries, representing libraries, universities, research institutions, government funders and others.