COAR acts as the international voice for the repository community, and promotes the vision of an inclusive and sustainable knowledge commons.

Policies and practices adopted by other stakeholders can have a significant impact on repositories services and repository networks.

COAR is a mechanism for delivering the perspectives of the repository community in international debates and policy discussions. And COAR regularly provides input on issues of importance to our community and engages with the other stakeholders on issues of importance to the repository community.