« (…) This report provides an account of the current state of open access in 16 regions of Asia. It is expected that the survey results will contribute to the wider implementation of open access and help various regions make the case for greater investment in open access, both in terms…
International Accord
« Collectively we aspire to strengthen and enhance the distributed, community-based open access infrastructure around the world.
Moreover, we acknowledge that strong relationships between regional and national repository networks are important, and that there are significant benefits of working together (…) »
« In April 2016, the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) launched a working group to help identify new functionalities and technologies for repositories and develop a road map for their adoption. For the past several months, the group has been working to define a vision for repositories…
« COAR aims to position universities, research institutions and their libraries as the foundation for a new scholarly communication system. (…) In September 2016, COAR launched a Research Data Management (RDM) Interest Group to help the community expand their operations to support RDM. (…)
See the results of research…
« The aim of this task force is to produce a number of competency profiles that will help to build capacity in libraries for supporting new roles in the area of scholarly communication and e-research. The profiles will enable library managers to identify skill gaps in their institution, form…
« (…) LA Referencia, in cooperation with COAR is working with OpenAIRE to achieve this. LA Referencia is an initiative of public science and technology organizations from nine Latin American countries that offers a regional Open Access repository aggregation service. In 2015 LA Referencia adopted major elements of…
« In order to reassert their commitment to advance the Open Access agenda within the broader context of sustainable development through optimal resource sharing, the Knowledge Societies Division, Communication and Information Sector (KSD/CI) of UNESCO and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) have agreed…
« Elsevier has rejected criticism of its new sharing and hosting policy, following a negative analysis by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR).
Organisations from around the world have denounced Elsevier’s new policy, which was…
« A new edition of the Repository Observatory (No. 3) from the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) is now available online.
Here’s a brief summary from the COAR web site:
The current edition of the Repository Observatory highlights the interoperability of…
» The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL), the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), and the Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER) are pleased to announce the launch of a Joint Task Force on Librarians’ Competencies in Support of E-Research and Scholarly…
