COAR Repositories

Why repositories matter more than ever?

Read COAR's new "Narrative Series" that present several compelling, evidence-based portrayals of the power of repositories:

https://coar-repositories.org/what-we-do/new-narratives-for-repositories/

See our new website to help repositories mitigate the impact of AI bots. *Spoiler alert - there is no silver bullet if you want to keep your repository open. https://coar-repositories.org/news-updates/mitigating-the-impact-of-ai-bots/

RE: https://code4lib.social/@g3om4c/116166252517824633

Read about some of the tricky issues repositories and COAR will have to try to navigate!

And now, one of the "European fathers" of the repository movement, @elrod@mastodon.social talking at #OR2025 about how COAR Notify can be used to help scale the Publish, Review, Curate model of publishing, putting repositories at the center of a new type of DiamondOA @martinklein@mastodon.online @paulwalk@mastodon.social

Read our blog post and join us in pushing back on ridiculous and arbitrary fees being applied by some publishers for deposit into a repository. "Unfair publisher fees for deposit into repositories highlight the need for authors to exercise their rights" https://coar-repositories.org/news-updates/unfair-publisher-fees-for-deposit-into-repositories-highlight-the-need-for-authors-to-exercise-their-rights/

Just released, our "Strategic Analysis of the Scholarly Communications Landscape", including implications for and suggestions for how repositories can respond. https://coar-repositories.org/news-updates/strategic-analysis-of-the-scholarly-communicationslandscape/

Getting a sneak peek of the Zenodo / Invenio RDM implementation of COAR Notify at #OR2025, presented by Richard Jones from Cottage Labs. It will be available soon in upcoming versions. Thanks to Arcadia Fund for their support @rmounce@mastodon.social @paulwalk@mastodon.social @martinklein@mastodon.online @elrod@mastodon.social

Read our new blog post outlining COAR's proposed new approach to multilingual discoverability across the global repository network:
"Breaking language barriers in science through semantic multilingual search" https://coar-repositories.org/news-updates/breaking-language-barriers-in-science-through-semantic-multilingual-search/ Very exciting!!!

COAR Notify now available to ePrints users https://coar-repositories.org/news-updates/coar-notify-now-available-to-eprints-users/

#COAR2025 in Tokyo, Japan (hosted by NII and JPCOAR) offers an opportunity to share strategies and progress around open infrastructure and repositories. 23 countries with over 100 attendees!

Eloy Rodrigues presenting about COAR Notify and Publish, Review, Curate model at the #COAR2025 meeting in Tokyo.

Today we published a concept paper proposing the use of "Semantic Multilingual Search" to improve access to content in different languages. We want your opinion!

https://coar-repositories.org/news-updates/can-semantic-multilingual-search-for-scholarly-content-improve-the-accessibility-of-research-outputs-across-languages-a-coar-proposal/

Read our project update - The expanding COAR Notify Ecosystem https://coar-repositories.org/news-updates/the-expanding-coar-notify-ecosystem-project-update/