Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)

« 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…

« March 12, 2025 – Today, LIBER, OpenAIRE, SPARC Europe, and COAR are publishing a plan of action to…

« 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…

« 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…

« 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…

« 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…

« 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…

« 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…

(…) 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…

« 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…