Jun 14 Adoption of NGR technologies in repository platforms
On June 6, 2018 COAR held a meeting of open source repository platforms to talk about the implementation of technical recommendations in the COAR Next Generation Repositories Report. The meeting was held in conjunction with the Open Repositories Conference in … Continue reading
Jun 06 COAR and DuraSpace enter into partnership
From left to right: Daniel Bernstein (DuraSpace), Kathleen Shearer (COAR), Michele Mennielli (DuraSpace), Tim Donohue (DSpace), Eloy Rodrigues (COAR), David Wilcox (Fedora) COAR and DuraSpace are pleased to announce the launch of a collaborative partnership. Both organizations believe in a … Continue reading
Jun 04 Investigating peer review overlay services
Today, a new journal in mathematics was launched by Timothy Gowers and Dan Kral. The journal, called ‘Advances in Combinatorics’, is an overlay journal, built entirely on articles contained in the arXiv repository. It is free to read and will … Continue reading
May 22 COAR Annual Meeting and New Executive Board
Participants in the COAR Annual Meeting 2018 (photo by Timo Wilke) Last week, the COAR Annual Meeting took place from May 14-17, 2018 in Hamburg, Germany. The meeting was filled to capacity and, with representatives from 30 countries, was the … 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
