Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)

« The aim of this blog post is to raise awareness about certain issues related to the adoption of persistent identifiers (PIDs), which especially impact developing countries and to propose an…

« The COAR Notify Initiative is developing and accelerating community adoption of a standard, interoperable, and decentralised approach to linking research outputs hosted in the distributed network of repositories with resources…

« COAR welcomes your input on 16 draft recommendations for managing non-English and multilingual content in repositories. These recommendations were developed by a COAR Task…

« Keynote Speaker
Marin Dacos, National Open Science Coordinator at the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research. He has been highly involved in the writing process of the French…

« The COAR Notify Team is compiling a COAR Notify Developers’ Handbook, and an early iteration is now available online. The Handbook is intended to support the growing…

COAR is pleased to announce that the COAR Annual Meeting 2023 will take place in Costa Rica on May 16-18, 2023. The meeting will be hosted by Consejo Nacional de…

« We are pleased to announce that LIBER, SPARC Europe, COAR, and OpenAIRE are launching a joint strategy aimed at strengthening the…

« Today, COAR and ASAPbio are pleased to announce the publication of “Ten Recommended Practices for Managing Preprints in Generalist and Institutional Repositories”.
As preprint sharing becomes more common, we…

« Consultez le répertoire des serveurs de preprints tenu par le Centre de la Communication Scientifique Directe (CCSD) et la Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) (…) »

« Multilingualism is a critical characteristic of a healthy, inclusive, and diverse research communications landscape. The Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication asserts that the disqualification of…