COAR Shaping, strengthening, and innovating the global repository network Kathleen Shearer, Executive Director, COAR www.coar-repositories.org
About COAR ● Legal seat based in Germany, office based in Portugal ● International association of 155 members and partners from around the world ● Building a sustainable, inclusive and trusted global knowledge commons based on a network of open access digital repositories
This vision that guides our work position repositories as the foundation for a distributed, globally networked infrastructure for scholarly communication, on top of which layers of value added services will be deployed, thereby transforming the system, making it more research- centric, open to and supportive of innovation, while also collectively managed by the scholarly community.
What we do
Shaping the narrative Articulating the fundamental values of our community Advocating with policy makers Standing up for repositories in the global arena
Strengthening the global repository network The purpose of the framework is to assist repositories to evaluate and improve their current operations based on a set of applicable and achievable good practices. Translated into 7 languages: Version 2 will be available in June 2022 Eight Sections (essential and desired characteristics)
- Discovery 5. Quality assurance
- Access 6. Preservation
- Reuse 7. Governance and sustainability
- Integrity and authenticity 8. Other Strengthening the global repository network
Strengthening the global repository network
Strengthening the global repository network
Modernizing the global repository network
The vision is to position repositories as the foundation for a distributed, globally networked infrastructure for scholarly communication, on top of which layers of value added services will be deployed, thereby transforming the system, making it more research-centric, open to and supportive of innovation, while also collectively managed by the scholarly community. A conceptual model for a modular, distributed open source publishing framework which builds upon the content contained in the network of repositories to enable the dissemination and quality-control of a range of research outputs including publications, data, and more. Pubfair A distributed framework for open publishing services (2019) COAR Next Generation Repositories Initiative (2016-17) Advancing innovation
Advancing innovation
Advancing innovation
Review Request Review Acknowledge Review Result COAR Notify Project Connecting peer review with resources in repositories Advancing innovation
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COVID-19 has led to rapid and open sharing of research outputs. But will this new, radically open research communications paradigm result in permanent change? Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) executive board members, Kathleen Shearer, Eloy Rodrigues, Bianca Amaro, Gy Wolfram Horstmann, William Nixon, Daisy Selematsela, Martha Whitehead and Kazu Yamaji, argue that the new research climate proves that longstanding shortcomings regarding the time ry] and cost of research can be overcome with enough political will, and that maintaining a culture of ©
open science going forward is necessary to address the big social problems of our time.
No turning back? Robert-Jan Smits: “Let’s turn this abnormal situation, in which COVID-19-relevant papers and data are shared widely, into a normal situation” Vincent Larivière: “(now) how do you justify not making research on cancer or cardiovascular diseases freely accessible as well?”
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Confederation “7p ¢* The Journal of the Association of European Research Libraries of Open Access
Vol. 29 (2019) xx—xx | e-ISSN: 2213-056X Repositories
Article Processing Charge Hyperinflation and Price Insensitivity: An Open Access Sequel to the Serials Crisis
Shaun Yon-Seng Khoo
Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
[email protected], orcid.org /0000-0002-0972-3788 Investing in your repository means investing in your institution, your community, and investing in a more equitable, global infrastructure for research communications
Gracias! Kathleen Shearer, Executive Director, COAR [email protected]