Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)

« (…) 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…

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…

« 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…

« 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)…

« 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…

« (…) 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…

« 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…

« 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…

« A new edition of the Repository Observatory (No. 3) from the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) is now available online.

Here’s a…

 » 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)…