Regional Initiatives
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Asia OA 2020 – Seoul, South Korea
The (virtual) 5th meeting of Asia OA was hosted by Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) from September 9-15, 2020 Recently, the wave of the 4th industry has changed our lives greatly. In addition, Corona 19 is accelerating this further. In the research world, open science is getting more attention than open access…
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COAR Forum on COVID-19, Open Science, and Repositories
On September 10, 2020, COAR hosted a 2-hour forum highlighting the role of open science and open repositories in the context of COVID-19. The forum showcased several collaborative initiatives from around the world aiming to improve the discovery of, and access to, COVID-19 research outputs. Participants learned about three projects from different regions, followed by an…
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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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Survey of repository aggregators
If you run an aggregator service, COAR would like to invite you to respond to this short, bilingual (English/Spanish) survey. There is a growing number of national and regional repository aggregator networks that harvest metadata (and in some cases full text) from repositories and other data sources, and provide a number of services including tracking open…
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Report from the African LIBSENSE 3 Workshop
On April 24-26, 2019 the 3rd LIBSENSE workshop took place in Tunis, Tunisia. The workshop was organized by ASREN (Arabic States Research and Education Network), in conjunction with WACREN, COAR and EIFL. The LIBSENSE initiative is a collaboration between the three African Regional Research and Education Networks (RRENs) and the AfricaConnect2 project. It aims to build a…
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Asia OA 2019 Meeting in Dhaka, Bangladesh
On March 6-7, 2019, we had the COAR Asia 2019 meeting in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The meeting was hosted by Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council (BARC) and was well attended by government representatives, national open access advocates, local researchers and librarians, as well as several members of the Bangladesh parliament. The event was covered by the local…
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Africa Libsense workshop – building library/NREN collaborations for open science
On March 11-12, 2019, COAR also participated in the second Libsense workshop organized by WACREN (West and Central African Research and Education Network). The program was developed by WACREN, EIFL and COAR, with support from OpenAIRE and the National Institutes for Informatics (NII) in Japan. The LIBSENSE initiative aims to nurture and develop collaborations between…
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Peru Repository Workshop
Last week, COAR participated in a training event organized by DuraSpace and CONCYTEC, the Peruvian Council for Science and Technological Information. The aim of the workshop was to help increase expertise for managing repositories at Peruvian universities and was attended by over 130 people, with another 120 people watching it on the live stream. The…
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News from China
Brief report of the 2016 Chinese Institutional Repository Conference and launch of the new repository group in China, CHAIR The 4th annual Chinese Institutional Repository Conference took place in Chongqing, China on September 21-22, 2016, with the theme of “Rich functions and extended roles for institutional repositories”. The conference was jointly organized by National Science…
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Communiqué: International repository networks reinforce their aim to develop a global, open access knowledge commons
May 7, 2015: For a second year in a row, major open access repository networks have met to develop closer ties and further align their expanding repository networks. The meeting, organized by the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), was held on April 16, 2015 in Porto, Portugal and included representatives from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin…
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