

COAR is extremely grateful for the generous funding support from Arcadia, a charitable foundation that works to protect nature, preserve cultural heritage and promote open access to knowledge. The funded project began on July 1, 2022 and will last for four years.
- Kathleen Shearer, COAR
- Paul Walk, Antleaf / COAR
- Martin Klein, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Eloy Rodrigues, University of Minho
- Tamy Nakano, COAR
- Herbert Van de Sompel
- Patrick Hochstenbach, IDLab, Ghent University
The COAR Notify Developers’ Handbook now available
The COAR Notify Team is compiling a COAR Notify Developers’ Handbook, and an early iteration is now available online. The Handbook is intended to support the growing community of developers considering or actively implementing …
Update on the COAR Notify Initiative: Advancing Innovation in Scholarly Communications
The COAR Notify Initiative is developing and accelerating community adoption of a standard, interoperable, and decentralised approach to linking research outputs hosted in the distributed network of repositories with resources from external services such as …
COAR welcomes significant funding for the Notify Project
Wednesday, May 18, 2022 Madrid, Spain: We are delighted to announce that COAR has been awarded a US$4 million grant from Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. The 4 year grant …
CCSD and COAR announce plans to launch preprint directory
February 1, 2022 - The Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe (CCSD) of France and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) are pleased to announce their formal collaboration to launch a directory of …
Delving deeper into preprints in institutional and generalist repositories
Image from Infographics by ASAPbio Fellows: Ana Dorrego-Rivas (@adorrego_r), Carrie Iwema and Mafalda Pimentel (@Maf_Pimentel) As open scholarship practices grow, dedicated preprint servers are springing up in many disciplines. However, researchers are also depositing …
Expanding our global capacity for preprint sharing
Preliminary results from a COAR and ASAPbio survey of preprints in institutional and generalist repositories All new knowledge is built on the shoulders of previous knowledge. As such, the pace of discovery is determined according …