This editorial was originally published on the Times Higher Education website on August 9, 2022 Without a fuller embrace of repositories, the transition with be slow, partial and siloed, says Kathleen Shearer Kathleen Shearer The Plan S requirement for immediate open …
Wednesday, May 18, 2022 Madrid, Spain: We are delighted to announce that COAR has been awarded a US$4 million grant from Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. The 4 year grant will go towards the COAR …
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 …
Image from Infographics by ASAPbio Fellows: Ana Dorrego-Rivas (@adorrego_r), Carrie Iwema and Mafalda Pimentel (@Maf_Pimentel) As open scholarship practices grow, dedicated preprint servers are springing up in many disciplines. However, researchers are also depositing preprints in other platforms, including …
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 …
