Sep 18 Either you missed it or want to listen to it again: Slides and the recording of today’s webinar are now available
We had such a diverse audience today for COAR Members-only webinar: “Driving Traffic to Institutional Repositories: How Search Engine Optimisation can Increase the Number of Downloads from IR” by Kenning Arlitsch, Dean of the Library at Montana State University. Thanks ever so much to those who … Continue reading
Sep 06 Elsevier acquisition highlights the need for community-based scholarly communication infrastructure
This blog post was written jointly by Kathleen Shearer, Executive Director of COAR, and Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC, and is also available on the SPARC website. September 6, 2017 Like many others in the scholarly community, we were … Continue reading
Sep 04 COAR Controlled Vocabularies Infographic
An infographic is prepared for COAR Controlled Vocabularies which provides an overview about the group and helps to understand the basics about the COAR Controlled Vocabularies. It is placed on FAQs for Controlled Vocabularies web page. Please feel free to use and distribute in your … Continue reading
Aug 31 Upcoming COAR Members-Only Webinar: Driving Traffic to Institutional Repositories
You are invited to COAR Members-Only Webinar: “Driving Traffic to Institutional Repositories: How Search Engine Optimisation can Increase the Number of Downloads from IR” by Kenning Arlitsch, Dean of the Library at Montana State University. Date: September 18th, Monday at 16:00 CEST / 08:00 MDT. … Continue reading
Recent highlights
- Joint COAR-UNESCO Statement on Open Access
- Videos and slides from the COAR Annual Meeting – April 2016 in Vienna, Austria
- 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
