On April 5, through a joint statement, COAR joined several other European organizations to call for an exclusion for not-for-profit repositories, digital archives, and libraries from the obligations of the Digital Services Act (DSA). The Digital Services Act aims …
Joint statement dated 24 January 2022 CESAER, COAR and LIBER welcome the strong focus of the European Commission towards a Europe fit for the digital age as part of its priorities from 2019 to 2024. We are convinced that …
On November 23, 2021, the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science was formally adopted, representing a significant achievement in our collective progress towards open science. The endorsement of the Recommendation by member states demonstrates strong support for the notion that …
Recently, Springer Nature published a white paper entitled, “Going for Gold”. The paper presents an analysis of a subset of their articles comparing the usage across closed access, open access (OA) via the Springer Nature platform, and open access …
Calling all repositories! Jisc and COAR - along with regional networks LA Referencia (Latin America), LIBSENSE (Africa) and OpenAIRE (Europe) - are calling on all repositories to update their records in OpenDOAR during this Open Access Week. Repositories are …
