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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
