« Lors de sa réunion annuelle du jeudi 3 avril, la Confédération of Open Access Repositories (COAR) a élu les nouveaux membres de son Comité exécutif. À cette occasion, Nathalie Fargier, directrice du CCSD, a été élue pour un mandat de trois ans. (…) »
« March 12, 2025 – Today, LIBER, OpenAIRE, SPARC Europe, and COAR are publishing a plan of action to strengthen and future-proof research repositories in Europe.
A robust repository network is key for safeguarding Europe’s research production and…
« COAR brings together individual repositories and repository networks in order to build capacity, align policies and practices, drive innovation, and act as a global voice for the repository community. COAR members play a leadership role in shaping the future for all repositories COAR has an ambitious plan for 2025, with…
« On October 29-30, 2024, COAR organised a strategic meeting to discuss how to accelerate the adoption of the Publish, Review, Curate model of scholarly publishing. The meeting was part of the COAR Notify Project and was hosted by the CCSD (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) in Lyon, France.…
« In January 2023, OpenAIRE, LIBER, SPARC Europe, and COAR unveiled a joint strategy to strengthen the European repository network. This aim is to further strengthen the open science landscape in Europe by reinforcing and enhancing repositories across Europe by emphasizing their value, spreading best practices,…
« After two very successful days of meetings with many esteemed local and international representatives, COAR and INFLIBNET are pleased to announce an agreement to work together to coalesce and strengthen the substantial network of open science repositories in India. (…) »
« Open Science is a movement to make scientific research available to all – making it more useful, transparent and greatly increasing the impact of research. Open Science contributes to advancing many of the UNs Sustainable Development Goals and in November 2021, UNESCO members unanimously adopted a Recommendation on Open Science…
« COAR has been working with the US Repository Network (USRN) to connect and strengthen the position of repositories in the US. With the advent of the recent OSTP Memorandum requiring Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research – which directs government research funders and agencies to adopt…
(…) In August 2022, COAR launched the COAR Task Force on Supporting Multilingualism and non-English Content in Repositories to develop and promote good practices for repositories in managing multilingual and non-English content. (…)
In June 2023, the Task Force published an initial set of draft recommendations…
« On January 1, 2024, all COAR operations will transition from the COAR e.V. to the COAR Stichting.
COAR was founded in 2009 and has been hosted by Göttingen Library in Germany since its inception. We are greatly appreciative of the support we have received by Göttingen…
