COAR supports repositories today and positions them to play a key role in the future.
Good Practices for Repositories
COAR develops good practice recommendations for the international repository community, focusing on specific areas that will advance the next …
Next Generation Repositories
Next Generation Repositories (NGRs) is an ongoing initiative of COAR to identify common behaviours, protocols and technologies that will …
Regional Initiatives and Alignment
Open access repositories are increasingly connected through thematic, national, and regional networks, which build important services on top of …
Bibliodiversity and Open Science
COAR advances the vision of a global knowledge commons. The notion of a "commons" is that certain resources are …
Repositories and Publishing
COAR is advancing innovative models for scholarly publishing, with a special focus on expanding the role of repositories within …
Metadata and Vocabularies
The potential to create a unified body of scholarly materials relies on interoperability – specifically, that repositories follow consistent …
Our Collective Voice
COAR acts as the international voice for the repository community, and promotes the vision of an inclusive and sustainable …
Multilingual and Non-English Content
Multilingualism is a critical characteristic of a healthy, inclusive, and diverse research communications landscape. Publishing in a local language …
Annual Meetings
Each year, COAR organizes an Annual Meeting and General Assembly hosted by a member institution. The Annual Meetings are …
Join forces with major institutions and organizations from around the world to build an open, sustainable and inclusive system for scholarly communications!
Members
COAR is an international association with 157 members and partners from 51 countries, representing libraries, universities, research institutions, government funders and others.