COAR Community Framework for Best Practices in Repositories
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 …
Overlay model for peer review on repositories
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 …
COAR Submission to UNESCO Open Science Consultation
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, …
COAR Recommendations for COVID-19 resources in repositories
These recommendations were last updated on June 15, 2020 English version in pdf format Spanish version Turkish version Around the world, research related to COVID-19 is being undertaken at unprecedented rates and rapid sharing of early research outputs at …
COAR Recommendations for Operations, Funding, and Governance of an International Repository Directory
A comprehensive and accurate directory of repositories is becoming increasingly important in the current scholarly communications landscape to support compliance with policy requirements and enable the development of value added services on top of repositories. An international repository directory …