What is signposting? Signposting is a standardized way of presenting information about a scholarly resource in a repository record, or other type of information provider, that allows machines to identify where the full text resource is located. Why signposting? …
On January 23-24, 2020, COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories) convened a meeting to investigate the potential for a common, distributed architecture that would connect peer review with resources in repositories. The aim of the meeting, hosted by Inria …
We are pleased to announce that COAR is a partner in a 3 year, Arcadia-funded project called, "Next Generation Library Publishing” that will begin work in September 2019. Why, you ask, is COAR involved in this, given that we represent …
These are the vision and principles that underpin our technical recommendations for Next Generation Repositories Our vision To position repositories as the foundation for a distributed, globally networked infrastructure for scholarly communication, on top of which layers of value …
COAR recently hosted a webinar for platform providers about one of the next generation repository technologies, ResourceSync. The aim was to provide more information about the use cases and rationale for repository platforms to implement ResourceSync into their software. …
