Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)

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…

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…

« 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…

« 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…

« 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…

« 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…

« 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…

« 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…

« 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…

« 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…