Image courtesy of Sharon & Nikki McCutcheon, Creative Commons License COAR and SPARC have a shared vision of creating a global, open knowledge sharing system that centers diversity, equity, and inclusion, and we believe repositories play a central …
Since the launch of COAR in 2009, a major strategic priority for the organization has been the alignment of repository networks across the world. In 2015 these efforts were expanded through the support of the European Commission-funded OpenAIRE2020 and …
Today, LA Referencia, RedCLARA and the three African regional research and education networks - ASREN, WACREN and UbuntuNet Alliance - signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to formalize their relationship as the two continents seek to ramp up their …
Issued by Confederation of Open Access Repositories, CoreTrustSeal, European University Association, Science Europe, and the World Data System Open science requires a sustainable, trustworthy and comprehensive network of repositories that can support …
Data Repository Selection: Criteria that Matter are a set of criteria that are being proposed by a group of (mainly) publishers. COAR has a number of concerns about these criteria: Many repositories currently don’t comply with the criteria. There …
