COAR – Access

Good practice advice for managing multilingual and non-English language content in repositories

MetadataNovember 8, 2023

(30 Oct 2023) On October 30, the COAR Task Force on Supporting Multilingualism and non-English Content in Repositories published 15 recommended practices for repositories to support multilingual and non-English content in repositories. The recommendations identify good practices for repository managers and repository software developers, and focus on the topics of metadata, multilingual keywords, user interfaces,…

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COAR community consultation on managing non-English and multilingual content in repositories

Research SupportJune 7, 2023

(1 Jun 2023) 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 Force and are meant to provide good practice advice on depositing, managing, and curating multilingual and non-English language content in repositories. Multilingualism is a critical characteristic of…

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Update on the COAR Notify Initiative: Advancing innovation in scholarly communications

MetadataOctober 28, 2022

(26 Oct 2022) The COAR Notify Initiative is developing and accelerating community adoption of a standard, interoperable, and decentralized approach to linking research outputs hosted in the distributed network of repositories with resources from external services such as overlay-journals and open peer review services. The COAR Notify Protocol, which builds on the established Linked Data Notifications…

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CCSD and COAR announce the launch of a preprint directory

Research SupportOctober 11, 2022

(5 Oct 2022) The Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe (CCSD) of France and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) are pleased to announce the launch of a directory of open access preprint repositories. Preprints are becoming an increasingly important part of the research communications landscape. Posting preprints allows researchers to share their research…

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Open consultation for best practices in repositories

Open AccessFebruary 24, 2022

(7 Feb 2022) COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories) is seeking community input. Here’s the announcement. The Framework brings together relevant criteria developed by other communities (and refined by the COAR Repository Assessment Working Group) into a global, multidimensional framework for assessing best practices that can be adopted and used by different types of repositories (publication, institutional, data,…

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CCSD and COAR are set to launch a directory of open access preprint repositories

Open AccessFebruary 10, 2022

(3 Feb 2022) The Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe (CCSD) of France and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) have announced their formal collaboration to launch a directory of open access preprint repositories. Preprints are becoming an increasingly important part of the research communications landscape. Posting preprints allows researchers to share their research freely and rapidly with…

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Going for gold, or gold diggers?

Open AccessNovember 26, 2021

(17 Nov 2021) Springer Nature published a white paper entitled, “Going for Gold”. The paper presents an analysis of a subset of their articles comparing the usage across closed access, open access (OA) via the Springer Nature platform, and open access through repositories. The paper concludes that “there is an ‘OA effect’ which sees OA…

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LIBER and COAR join forces to strengthen the role of repositories in Europe

Research SupportAugust 26, 2021

(19 August 2021) LIBER and COAR have signed a partnership agreement with the aim of strengthening the role of repositories in Europe. This new agreement provides a framework for joint strategic actions that will reinforce the important role of libraries in sustaining and advancing open repositories in the region. “Repositories are critical infrastructure components…

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Survey on preprint sharing in repositories

eJournalsAugust 11, 2021

(4 Aug 2021) ASAPbio and COAR are inviting institutional and other generalist repositories to fill in this survey about preprint sharing in repositories. The aggregate results of the survey will be made publicly available via our websites. The survey will only take about 5 minutes, and is open until September 10, 2021. The aim…

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COAR launches the Notify Project

DataFebruary 14, 2021

(5 Feb 2021) 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 as the foundation for a distributed, globally networked…

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