COAR is very pleased to announce the release of the COAR Community Framework for Best Practices in Repositories. The purpose of the framework is to assist repositories in evaluating and improving their current operations based on a set of …
COVID-19 has led to rapid and open sharing of research outputs. But will this new, radically open research communications paradigm result in permanent change? On September 24, the COAR Executive Board members and Executive Director published a commentary in …
On September 10, 2020, COAR hosted a 2-hour forum highlighting the role of open science and open repositories in the context of COVID-19. The forum showcased several collaborative initiatives from around the world aiming to improve the discovery of, …
COAR is pleased to share with you a proposed model for a standard approach to peer review of resources in repositories. The proposed model, prepared by Paul Walk, Martin Klein, Herbert Van de Sompel, and Kathleen Shearer with input …
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 …
