Inviting community input – Pubfair
COAR is inviting community feedback on a white paper authored by Tony Ross-Hellauer, Benedikt Fecher, Kathleen Shearer and Eloy Rodrigues. The white paper, entitled Pubfair – A Framework for Sustainable, Distributed, Open Science Publishing Services, provides the rationale and describes the …
COAR Repository Toolkit
COAR Repository Toolkit is now updated with new resources. We invite you to visit the Toolkit to access the best practices and educational resources including websites, guides, videos, infographics and others. The Repository Toolkit was launched in the fall of …
Good Practice Principles for Scholarly Communication Services
Science and scholarship are critical to improving our lives and solving the world’s most intractable problems. The communication of research, a vital step in the research process, should be efficient, effective and fulfill the core values of scholarship. There …
Beyond Open Access: Five Prerequisites for a Sustainable Knowledge Commons
Open access is about the democratization of knowledge. However, as open access becomes widely adopted, there is a risk that we will accentuate the inequalities and unsustainability of scholarly publishing, through widespread implementation of pay to publish business models. …
Addressing the Gaps: Recommendations for Supporting the Long Tail of Research Data
This document was developed as part of The Long Tail of Research Data Interest Group of the Research Data Alliance. It was WRITTEN BY Wolfram Horstmann, Amy Nurnberger, Kathleen Shearer, Malcolm Wolski Recognize and understand the diversity of data …