The potential to create a unified body of scholarly materials is reliant on interoperability – specifically, that repositories follow consistent guidelines, protocols, and standards that allow them to communicate with each other and with other systems in order to …
The theme for OA week this year is “Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge” Diversity is an important characteristic of any healthy ecosystem, including scholarly communications. Diversity in services, platforms, funding mechanisms, and evaluation measures will allow the …
COAR and cOAlition S share a common aim to accelerate the transition to full and immediate Open Access to scholarly publications and COAR supports the vision and principles outlined in Plan S. Repositories offer a low-cost, high-value option for …
COAR is inviting community feedback on a white paper authored by Tony Ross-Hellauer, Benedikt Fecher, Kathleen Shearer and Eloy Rodrigues. The white paper, entitled Pubfair – A Framework for Sustainable, Distributed, Open Science Publishing Services, provides the rationale and describes the …
We are pleased to announce that COAR is a partner in a 3 year, Arcadia-funded project called, "Next Generation Library Publishing” that will begin work in September 2019. Why, you ask, is COAR involved in this, given that we represent …
