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 …
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 …
