Repositories and Publishing
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What’s new with COAR Notify?
Implementation partners Two major implementation projects have new, production-ready working implementations of COAR Notify. In early December, it was announced that authors who deposit their preprints into bioRxiv and SciELO Preprints can now send a request for review to the open review service, PREreview. The aim is to expand the functionality to other partner services…
Categories: Repositories and Publishing
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COAR welcomes the Council of EU Conclusions on High-quality, Transparent, Open, Trustworthy and Equitable Scholarly Publishing
As a major voice for repositories at the international level, COAR joins other organizations in welcoming the Council of European Union’s Conclusions on high-quality, transparent, open, trustworthy and equitable scholarly publishing, which highlight the importance of not-for-profit, scholarly open access publishing models. Over the past several years, the international community has been moving towards open…
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COAR Notify: overview of year one
The COAR Notify Initiative is developing and accelerating community adoption of a standard, interoperable, and decentralised approach to linking research outputs hosted in the distributed network of repositories with resources from external review services. COAR Notify was launched in 2021, and was awarded a significant grant from Arcadia, a charitable foundation that works to protect…
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The COAR Notify Developers’ Handbook now available
The COAR Notify Team is compiling a COAR Notify Developers’ Handbook, and an early iteration is now available online. The Handbook is intended to support the growing community of developers considering or actively implementing the COAR Notify protocol. It offers guidance on implementing the COAR Notify Protocol at a technical level. It may also be…
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Ten Recommended Practices for Managing Preprints in Generalist and Institutional Repositories
Today, COAR and ASAPbio are pleased to announce the publication of “Ten Recommended Practices for Managing Preprints in Generalist and Institutional Repositories”. As preprint sharing becomes more common, we need a cohesive and sustainable ecosystem to support researchers around the world. Currently, there are numerous gaps in geographic and domain coverage and some authors will…
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Preprints and Working Papers
Preprint sharing has become an increasingly common practice; one which has greatly expanded since the COVID-19 pandemic. Posting a preprint makes an article quickly and freely available to everyone (while the published version may take months and be behind a paywall) and opens the manuscript up for transparent community review. The move towards greater preprint…
Categories: Repositories and Publishing
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Case Study: Psicológica Overlay Journal Workflow
COAR’s October 2022 interview of Psicológica journal lead Pandelis Perakakis includes a step-by-step breakdown of that journal’s low-cost, replicable editorial workflow. Psicológica is a ‘do it yourself’ overlay journal with content hosted on the Spanish National Repository, Digital.CSIC. The Spanish Society for Experimental Psychology moved their journal, Psicológica, from a traditional model to an overlay journal model. The editors and board of…
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Update on the COAR Notify Initiative: Advancing Innovation in Scholarly Communications
The COAR Notify Initiative is developing and accelerating community adoption of a standard, interoperable, and decentralised approach to linking research outputs hosted in the distributed network of repositories with resources from external services such as overlay-journals and open peer review services. The COAR Notify Protocol, which builds on the established Linked Data Notifications and ActivityStreams2…
Categories: Repositories and Publishing
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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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COAR welcomes significant funding for the Notify Project
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 Notify Project, which is developing and implementing a standard protocol for connecting the content in…