The following provides mandatory data concerning the provider of this website as well as other important legal references involving the Internet site of the Confederation of Open Access Repositories as required by German law in accordance to § 5 TMG.

Provider

The provider of this Internet site within the legal meaning of the term is the registered association Confederation of Open Access Repositories – COAR e. V.

Address

COAR e. V. Office
c/o Göttingen State and University Library
Platz der Göttinger Sieben 1
37073 Göttingen
Germany
Email: office [at] coar-repositories.org

Register of Societies and Associations

COAR is a registered association (e. V.) under German law at the Magistrate’s court of Göttingen. It is registered in the Official Register of Societies and Associations under the register number VR 200463.

Representatives

COAR is legally represented by its Executive Board:

  • Chairperson: Martha Whitehead, Harvard Library, United States
  • Vice Chairperson: Kazu Yamaji, National Institutes of Informatics, Japan
  • Treasurer: William Nixon, University of Glasgow, Scotland
  • Bianca Amaro, Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia, Brazil
  • Virginia Barbour, Open Access Australasia, Australia
  • Isabel Bernal, Spanish National Research Council, Spain
  • Iryna Kuchma, EIFL, Ukraine
  • Omo Oaiya, West and Central African Research and Education Network, Ghana

Editor Responsible for the Content of this Website

Responsible editors for the contents of the website of COAR with regard to media law:

Kathleen Shearer
c/o Göttingen State and University Library
Platz der Göttinger Sieben 1
37073 Göttingen
Germany

Email: office [at] coar-repositories.org

License

All content on this website is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Germany license, except for images.

Disclaimer

Contributions marked by name do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the association.

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