(Jun 2026) Scholarly communication is at a crossroads. The pressures bearing down on the global knowledge commons are converging at once. Scholarly infrastructure has become dangerously concentrated in the hands of a small number of commercial publishers and foreign-controlled platforms, leaving institutions and nations exposed to disruptions they cannot control. At the same time, the integrity…
(10 Jul 2025) On July 8, 2025, COAR officially launched the COAR International Repository Directory (IRD). The IRD will act as an authoritative source of information about repositories, providing the community with an accurate and timely record of the current repository landscape. This is more important than ever now that many countries are moving rapidly to…
(22 May 2025) All presentations are online and the recordings from the meeting will be made available in mid-June 2025. The COAR Conference took place in Tokyo, Japan on May 12-15, 2025 and was attended by approximately 140 people representing at least 23 different countries. The meeting was jointly organized by COAR, JPCOAR, and the National Institute…
(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…
(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…
(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…
(8 Oct 2020) COAR is very pleased to announce the release of the COAR Community Framework for Best Practices in Repositories. The purpose of the framework is to assist repositories in evaluating and improving their current operations based on a set of applicable and achievable good practices. Currently, there are a number of…
(14 Apr 2020) In less than a week, PAHO and Atmire established a COVID19 subject repository. An increasing number of Atmire clients are publicly exposing COVID19 research in their repositories. As the latest client to go live on Atmire’s DSpace Express platform, https://covid19-evidence.paho.org/ contains PAHO COVID19 guidance and the latest research in the Americas. The…
(19 June 2019) A new digital repository will be launched by the end of this month offering materials that assist service learning – when students take part in activities that advance their studies while helping the community and learning values. The National Service-Learning Clearinghouse will be the first resource of its kind in Singapore, offering videos,…
(26 Apr 2019) The COAR Repository Toolkit is now updated with new resources. Visit the Toolkit to access the best practices and educational resources including websites, guides, videos, infographics and others. The Repository Toolkit was launched in the fall of 2018. The aim is to provide repository managers with best practices and educational resources to support…