Knowledge Commons
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CCSD and COAR announce the launch of a preprint directory
October 5, 2022: The Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe (CCSD) of France and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) are pleased to announce the launch of a directory of open access preprint repositories. Preprints are becoming an increasingly important part of the research communications landscape. Posting preprints allows researchers to share their research…
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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 open access preprint repositories. Preprints are becoming an increasingly important part of the research communications landscape. Posting preprints allows researchers to…
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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 to how quickly research can be shared. As a complement to the valuable (but often slow) process of peer-review publishing,…
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Towards a global knowledge commons – COAR advances interoperability and alignment internationally
Since the launch of COAR in 2009, a major strategic priority for the organization has been the alignment of repository networks across the world. In 2015 these efforts were expanded through the support of the European Commission-funded OpenAIRE2020 and OpenAIRE Advance project. COAR’s Alignment Activities Capacity Building Metadata / Vocabularies Network Interoperability Innovation The aim…
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Open science in the time of COVID-19: Let’s not return to business as usual when the pandemic is over!
COVID-19 has led to rapid and open sharing of research outputs. But will this new, radically open research communications paradigm result in permanent change? On September 24, the COAR Executive Board members and Executive Director published a commentary in the London School of Economics Impact Blog. The intensity and volume of research related to COVID-19 has been unprecedented…
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COAR survey finds no large barriers for repository platforms in complying with Plan S
In 2019, a group of funders known as cOAlition S adopted Plan S, a set of principles and requirements for full and immediate Open Access to peer-reviewed scholarly publications resulting from the research they fund, beginning in 2021. One of the routes for complying with Plan S is for authors to make the final published version (Version…
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COAR Executive Director’s Keynote at Open Repositories
On June 1, 2020, Kathleen Shearer, COAR Executive Director delivered the keynote speech at the (virtual) Open Repositories Conference 2020. The topic of the speech was bibliodiversity Crises like this pandemic expose the cracks and weaknesses in our societies and systems. How we look after our elderly, inequalities in healthcare, bad governance and so on And…
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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 the international level is critically important. Many governments and funders are requiring immediate open access to…
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Fostering Bibliodiversity in Scholarly Communications – A Call for Action!
Today, my colleagues and I are issuing a “Call for Action!” We are calling on the community to make concerted efforts to develop strong, community-governed infrastructures that support diversity in scholarly communications (referred to as bibliodiversity). Diversity is an essential characteristic of an optimal scholarly communications system. Diversity in services and platforms, funding mechanisms, and…
