« We are pleased to announce the release of version 3.0 of the resource types vocabulary. Since 2015, three COAR Controlled Vocabularies have been developed and are maintained by the Controlled Vocabulary Editorial Board: Resource types, access rights and…
« Today, LA Referencia, RedCLARA and the three African regional research and education networks – ASREN, WACREN and UbuntuNet Alliance – signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to formalize their relationship as the two continents seek to ramp up their open science activities. The aim of the collaboration is to advance…
« COAR is pleased to announce the launch of a new project, Notify: The Repositories and Services Interoperability Project
This project builds on previous work of COAR to advance the vision first outlined in the COAR Next Generation Repositories Initiative – to position repositories…
« L’objectif du document est d’aider les entrepôts à évaluer et à améliorer leurs opérations actuelles sur la base d’un ensemble de bonnes pratiques applicables et réalisables. Plusieurs critères d’évaluation sont proposés tels que la découverte des données, l’accès, la réutilisation et l’intégrité des données et la préservation des données. (…) »
« COAR is pleased to publish our Work Plan for 2021.
The activities build on our work of 2020. For 2021 COAR will focus on advancing alignment and interoperability, adopting best practices, promoting the role of repositories in open science, and progressing the vision of the next generation repository, with…
« COAR is pleased to share with you a proposed model for a standardised approach to peer review of resources in repositories. (…) »
« (…) The survey found that most repository platforms currently support compliance with Plan S mandatory criteria and, in the few cases where they do not, there are plans to adopt this functionality. In addition, many of the highly recommended criteria are also already supported by the platforms. As a next…
« Around the world, research related to COVID-19 is being undertaken at unprecedented rates and rapid sharing of early research outputs at the international level is critically important. Many governments and funders are requiring immediate open access to COVID-19 outputs in the form of preprints, data and so on. With over…
« We are calling on the community to make concerted efforts to develop strong, community-governed infrastructures that support diversity in scholarly communications (referred to as bibliodiversity).
Diversity is an essential characteristic of an optimal scholarly communications system. Diversity in services and platforms, funding mechanisms, and evaluation measures will allow the…
« COAR and SPARC have published a joint response to the OSTP Request for Public Comment on Draft Desirable Characteristics of Repositories for Managing and Sharing Data Resulting From Federally Funded Research. (…) »
