In 2019, a group of funders known as cOAlition S adopted Plan S, a set of principles and requirements for full and immediate Open Access to peer-reviewed scholarly publications resulting from the research they fund, beginning in 2021. One …
On June 1, 2020, Kathleen Shearer, COAR Executive Director delivered the keynote speech at the (virtual) Open Repositories Conference 2020. The topic of the speech was bibliodiversity Crises like this pandemic expose the cracks and weaknesses in …
The widespread and rapid sharing of research results, commonly referred to as open science or open scholarship, is fundamental for addressing some of today’s most critical problems. Repositories provide essential services that manage and provide access to data, articles, …
These recommendations were last updated on June 15, 2020 (Resource Type Vocabulary was added to the basic recommended metadata elements) These recommendations are available in pdf format and have also been published in Spanish by LA Referencia, in Turkish by …
Today, my colleagues and I are issuing a “Call for Action!” We are calling on the community to make concerted efforts to develop strong, community-governed infrastructures that support diversity in scholarly communications (referred to as bibliodiversity). Diversity is an …
