COAR is an international association and world leader in open science. COAR brings together individual repositories and repository networks in order to build capacity, align policies and practices, and act as a global voice for the repository community.
COAR - Confederation of Open Access Repositories
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The COAR Power Networking session at #LIBER2025 was especially popular since I was joined by COAR Executive Board member, Nathalie Fargier from HAL and CCDS. Repos are going to be more important than ever in the new world of AI. Join the COAR community in charting our path forward!
Our public forum at University of Cambridge is officially *sold out* Looking forward to interesting discussions around the future of publishing with @ludowaltman.bsky.social and others @peercommunityin.bsky.social @elife.bsky.social @metaror.bsky.social - coar-repositories.org/news-updates...
See our statement published today articulating some tricky issues for repositories, "Navigating the Uneasy Interdependence of AI and Open Science" coar-repositories.org/news-updates...
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" coar-repositories.org/news-updates... Very exciting!!!!
Today we published a concept paper proposing a new approach to discoverability of multilingual content in the scholarly commons called Semantic Multilingual Search. We want your opinions! coar-repositories.org/news-updates...
Read our "Strategic Analysis of the Scholarly Communications Landscape" and discussion about how repositories can respond: coar-repositories.org/news-updates...
COAR Notify now available to ePrints users coar-repositories.org/news-updates...
See our most recent resource on how repositories can mitigate the impact of AI bots. Spoiler alert, there is no silver bullet if you want to keep your repository open!!! coar-repositories.org/news-updates...
@coar-repositories.bsky.social Kathleen Shearer reminding us how IRs are open infrastructure that should be collaborating trans-nationally.
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Kathleen Shearer shares the results of a @coar-repositories.bsky.social survey designed to better understand the effects of the growing number of 🤖 AI bots and crawlers, which can disrupt repositories and other scholarly communications infrastructures: youtu.be/oXjSwofZF-A
Tired of long delays, expensive fees, and a lack of transparency about editorial decisions when publishing your articles? Join us at King’s College, Cambridge on December 3rd for an in-depth …
A COAR Statement March 3, 2026 Download a pdf version Artificial intelligence (AI) is proving highly disruptive to open science as it becomes both widely used in the analysis and production of scho…
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September 8, 2025 by Lautaro Matas and Kathleen Shearer Introduction Every day, researchers around the world publish knowledge in hundreds of languages — Spanish in Argentina, Portuguese in Brazil,…
Today, COAR is published a paper presenting a very promising new approach for multilingual discovery, called multilingual semantic search. We want your opinion! Scholarly knowledge is created and s…
Kathleen Shearer, Executive Director, COAR November 27, 2025 This report presents a brief overview of the socio-political landscape for scholarly communications and describes some of th…
We are pleased to announce that the COAR Notify functionality is now available to ePrints users. COAR Notify implementation will allow ePrints repositories to establish relationships between an art…
Over the past few years, repositories have been encountering a growing number of bots trying to access their resources. These bots, or crawlers, navigate the internet, gathering data and indexing i…
There are a growing number of artificial intelligence (AI) bots crawling repositories. These automated bots, or crawlers, navigate the internet, gathering data and indexing information for search…
