Oct 04 Results of COAR membership survey
In July/August 2018, COAR conducted a survey to better understand the value of the organization and identify priority activities for members in the coming years. This report provides the results of the survey, which will be shared with members and … Continue reading
Sep 25 Presentations about ResourceSync
COAR recently hosted a webinar for platform providers about one of the next generation repository technologies, ResourceSync. The aim was to provide more information about the use cases and rationale for repository platforms to implement ResourceSync into their software. The … Continue reading
Sep 12 COAR’s response to Plan S
On September 4, 2018, a coalition of research funders in Europe published Plan S, an ambitious plan to accelerate Open Access in Europe. COAR welcomes the strong stance taken towards open access by a coalition of 11 European Funders, coordinated … Continue reading
Jul 26 Peru Repository Workshop
Last week, COAR participated in a training event organized by DuraSpace and CONCYTEC, the Peruvian Council for Science and Technological Information. The aim of the workshop was to help increase expertise for managing repositories at Peruvian universities and was attended … 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
