Jun 04 Report from the African LIBSENSE 3 Workshop
On April 24-26, 2019 the 3rd LIBSENSE workshop took place in Tunis, Tunisia. The workshop was organized by ASREN (Arabic States Research and Education Network), in conjunction with WACREN, COAR and EIFL. The LIBSENSE initiative is a collaboration between the … Continue reading
Jun 04 Revised Plan S and Repositories
cOAlition S has published a revised Plan S Principles and Implementation Guidelines. cOAlition S is a group of (mainly European) public and private charity research funders who want to accelerate the transition to open access through the adoption of a … Continue reading
Jun 03 WACREN & COAR Partnership Announcement
COAR and WACREN are pleased to announce a new collaboration agreement to advance open access and open science in Africa. Greater access to the results of research will contribute to improving the visibility and value of research outcomes. However, Africa … Continue reading
May 31 Report from the COAR Annual Meeting 2019
The 10th COAR Annual Meeting took place last week in Lyon, France. This was the most well-attended COAR meeting to date, with about 110 participants from over 40 countries. The meeting was an opportunity to take stock of progress related … Continue reading
Recent Highlights
- Good Practice Principles for Scholarly Communications Services
- 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
