Around the world, research related to COVID-19 is being undertaken at unprecedented rates and rapid sharing of early research outputs at the international level is critically important. Many governments and funders are requiring immediate open access to COVID-19 outputs …
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 …
What is signposting? Signposting is a standardized way of presenting information about a scholarly resource in a repository record, or other type of information provider, that allows machines to identify where the full text resource is located. Why signposting? …
If you run an aggregator service, COAR would like to invite you to respond to this short, bilingual (English/Spanish) survey. There is a growing number of national and regional repository aggregator networks that harvest metadata (and in some cases …
It is with heavy hearts that we inform you that we will be cancelling the COAR Annual Meeting 2020 in Cusco and Lima, Peru. The COAR Executive Board, along with the local organizers: CONCYTEC, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, …
