Data Repository Selection: Criteria that Matter are a set of criteria that are being proposed by a group of (mainly) publishers. COAR has a number of concerns about these criteria: Many repositories currently don’t comply with the criteria. There …
Kathleen Shearer, COAR Executive Director, published today a blog post on the cOAlition S website refuting a number of misleading statements about open access repositories made by some scholarly publishers. It's likely no accident that these comments are coming …
OASPA has published several guest posts - including COAR, cOAlition S and Jisc - which are responding to a criticism of green OA by several publisher representatives on their site last week. The COAR post is copied below. Correcting …
COAR is pleased to publish our Work Plan for 2021. The activities build on our work of 2020. For 2021 COAR will focus on advancing alignment and interoperability, adopting best practices, promoting the role of repositories in open science, …
The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), and Jisc’s OpenDOAR service which is a global directory of academic open access repositories, today released a joint roadmap for the further development for OpenDOAR as an international, community-driven repository directory. The …
