« One of the most challenging aspects of managing a repository is to raise the visibility of repository services in order to ensure researchers are contributing their research outputs. In our recent survey of COAR members, “engaging with the research community” was rated as the top major challenge for respondents.
To…
« En avril 2016, la Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) a lancé le Groupe de travail sur les archives ouvertes de prochaine génération afin d’identifier de nouvelles fonctionnalités et
technologies pour les archives ouvertes.
Dans ce rapport, nous sommes heureux de présenter les résultats des travaux de ce…
« COAR recently hosted a webinar for platform providers about one of the next generation repository technologies, ResourceSync.
The aim was to provide more information about the use cases and rationale for repository platforms to implement ResourceSync into their software.
The webinar included presentations by Martin Klein from…
« On September 4, 2018, a coalition of research funders in Europe published Plan S, an ambitious plan to accelerate Open Access in Europe.
COAR welcomes the strong stance taken towards open access by a coalition of 11 European Funders, coordinated by Science Europe as outlined in Plan…
« COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories) and DuraSpace are pleased to announce the launch of a collaborative partnership.
Both organizations believe in a strong role for innovative open technologies to promote long-lasting and open access to digital data and information. In addition, we are jointly committed to supporting the adoption…
« COAR is pleased to announce a webinar session with Prof. Leslie Chan, University of Toronto Scarborough entitled “Open Access in the global South: Perspectives from the Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network“.
Date & Time: 3 May, Thursday at 15h CEST/ 9h EDT
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As with science in general,…
« In November 2017, the COAR Next Generation Repositories Working Group published a report outlining new behaviours and technologies for repositories.
The aim is to position repositories as the foundation for a distributed, globally networked infrastructure for scholarly communication, on top of which layers of value added services…
« Vous trouverez derrière ce lien http://bit.ly/COARvocabFR une infographie en français à imprimer ou à envoyer par mail.
Elle présente les avantages d’utiliser des vocabulaires contrôlés pour les métadonnées bibliographiques et fait la publicité des 4 vocabulaires développés ou en cours de développement au sein du groupe…
« The report, Behaviours and Technical Recommendations of the COAR Next Generation Repositories Working Group is now available.
The next generation repositories work is based on a set of principles and design assumptions.
COAR’s vision is to position repositories as the foundation for a distributed,…
« The public version of the association’s Annual Report of the year 2016/17 is available now. The report contains information about strategy and outreach, annual meetings, activities of the Executive Board, Executve Director and Office as well as working and interest group accomplishments. Moreover, the report covers themes like marketing and…
