La conférence annuelle de la Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) s’est tenue à l’Université du Minho, à Braga (Portugal), du 1er au 3 juin 2026.
Le compte-rendu qui suit est une traduction en français du bilan des journées publié sur le site de COAR : Outcomes of the…
COAR is an international association that brings together individual repositories and repository networks in order to build capacity, align policies and practices, and act as a global voice for the repository community. (…) »
« This report presents a brief overview of the socio-political landscape for scholarly communications and describes some of the major forces that could significantly impact the repository ecosystem in the coming years. The aim is to provide COAR members with a synopsis of current trends that may affect repositories as well…
« Scholarly knowledge is created and shared through a wide range of sources — repositories, journals, data platforms, and other scholarly information systems — and in hundreds of languages. Yet, most discovery tools continue to privilege a few dominant languages, leaving large portions of research effectively invisible to global audiences. This…
« On July 8, 2025, COAR officially launched the COAR International Repository Directory (IRD). The IRD will act as an authoritative source of information about repositories, providing the community with an accurate and timely record of the current repository landscape. This is more important than ever now that many countries are…
« HAL, the multidisciplinary French national open archive, hosts over 1.45 million academic documents, including articles, preprints, conference papers, and more. As a pillar of the national open science policy, HAL plays a critical role in promoting accessibility and visibility of research outputs. A key initiative of the second French plan…
« The COAR Annual Conference 2025 took place in Tokyo, Japan on May 12-14, 2025. The conference was jointly organized by COAR, JPCOAR and the National Institute of Informatics (NII) and brought together international and Japanese participants to share experiences, identify priority activities across our communities, and contribute to the development…
« The COAR Conference took place in Tokyo, Japan on May 12-15, 2025 and was attended by approximately 140 people representing at least 23 different countries. The meeting was jointly organized by COAR, JPCOAR, and the National Institute of Informatics (NII) and provided an opportunity to learn more about the current…
« The COAR Notify Project has passed the halfway point of the 4-year project funded by Arcadia. In the past 2.5 years, the COAR Notify team has made significant progress in terms of adoption of the COAR Notify Protocol, with several developments still ongoing and several new ones in the pipeline.…
« There are a growing number of AI bots crawling repositories. These bots are sufficiently aggressive that they can cause service disruptions and outages in repositories. As a result, some repositories have started to block machine access to their collections, which is also inadvertently blocking other desired network services such as…
