The integrity of the scientific record is under strain precisely at the moment when citizens most need reliable access to evidence. Read our new narratives about how repositories help to address these and other challenges: coar-repositories.org/what-we-do/r...

Reframing Repositories

Why Repositories Matter More Than Ever Scholarly communication is at a crossroads. Scholarly infrastructure has become dangerously concentrated in the hands of a small number of commercial publishe…

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At the end of October, we will be launching the PRC Alliance to bring together like-minded organizations, share knowledge, and accelerate the adoption of the PRC model.🤝 Follow us to learn more! More about the PRC model and the PRC Alliance👇 publish-review-curate.org/what-is-publ...

What is PRC?

The Publish, Review, Curate (PRC) model re-imagines scholarly publishing by breaking the traditional publishing process into three distinct, independently executable stages: publish, review, and cu…

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There is an update on our website about the the PRC Alliance. publish-review-curate.org. We hope to officially launch in October 2026 and are seeking "founding members" who are already engaged in publish, review, curate. This effort is jointly coordinated by @asapbio.bsky.social and COAR.

Publish | Review | Curate

This is a joint initiative of COAR and ASAPbio, with funding from Arcadia as part of the COAR Notify Project

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Why repositories matter more than ever? Read COAR's new "Narrative Series" that present a. number of compelling, evidence-based portrayals of the power of repositories for public access, digital sovereignty, multilingualism, and research integrity coar-repositories.org/what-we-do/n...

Reframing Repositories

Why Repositories Matter More Than Ever! Scholarly communication is at a crossroads. The pressures bearing down on the global knowledge commons are converging at once. Scholarly infrastructure has b…

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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...

Navigating the Uneasy Interdependence of AI and Open Science

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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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...

Mitigating the impact of AI bots

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…

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Read our "Strategic Analysis of the Scholarly Communications Landscape" and discussion about how repositories can respond: coar-repositories.org/news-updates...

Strategic Analysis of the Scholarly CommunicationsLandscape

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…

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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...

Publish, Review, Curate: Turning scholarly publishing on its head

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 …

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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...

Can Semantic Multilingual Search Improve the Accessibility of Research Outputs Across Languages? A COAR Proposal

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…

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@coar-repositories.bsky.social Kathleen Shearer reminding us how IRs are open infrastructure that should be collaborating trans-nationally. #Osfair2025

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!!!!

Breaking language barriers in science through semantic multilingual search

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,…

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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

Artificial Intelligence Bots and Repositories—Results and Next Steps from COAR Survey

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…

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COAR Notify now available to ePrints users

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…

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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!

No surprise that AI is a prime topic at #liber2025. Many projects using AI to improve resource curation. But, nothing ground breaking. On the other hand, interesting conversations over lunch about the potential disruptions ahead for traditional publishing model @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

@libereurope.bsky.social From the opening keynote at #LIBER2025 Conference. Is the web too polluted to train AI? Yes! COAR believes that to have really valuable AI services we need to curate our resources and scope data providers appropriately, especially for science.

Push back: "Unfair publisher fees for deposit into repositories highlight the need for authors to exercise their rights" coar-repositories.org/news-updates... @coalitions-oa.bsky.social @sparcopen.bsky.social @sparc-eu.bsky.social @carl-abrc.bsky.social @libereurope.bsky.social @wacren.bsky.social

Unfair publisher fees for deposit into repositories highlight the need for authors to exercise their rights

Scientific knowledge is a public good Science and scholarship are about sharing and advancing knowledge, and many open access policies have been diligently designed in order to ensure that all thei…

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And next is Richard Jones presenting the code libraries at #OR2025 they have developed for COAR Notify. All openly available for the community.

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COAR Notify is becoming so well-recognized in the community it even has its own session at #OR2025. First up, Will Fyson from Co-Sector introducing the ePrints implementation

COAR Notify is becoming so well-recognized in the community it even has its own session at #OR2025. First up, Will Fyson from Co-Sector introducing the ePrints implementation

And more implementations of the COAR Resource Type vocabulary at #OR2025 - yay! It is now available in many languages. This vocabulary enables the entire repository community to use the same word to mean the same thing!

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 n upcoming versions. thanks to Arcadia Fund for their support!

Last day of #COAR2025 and we close with Petr Knoth (CORE) and Martin Klein (COAR Notify) presenting some very interesting ideas for where we go next with the global network of OArepositories. Exciting times with lots of potential, and super helpful for crafting COAR's new vision in the coming months

Winding down (or up) for the day #COAR2025 with a discussion of the potential of AI tools in repositories. Imagine what we could build with AI on the full corpus of OA knowledge available in the world's repositories @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy @investinopen.bsky.social @sparcopen.bsky.social

One of the several international panels sharing about #openaccess #repositories at #COAR2025. Tons of momentum in Canada, Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe. Now we just need to connect it all together! @investinopen.bsky.social @wacren.bsky.social @openaire.bsky.social @carl-abrc.bsky.social

Lot's of interesting discussions @COAR2025 in Tokyo. 23 countries represented with several common themes emerging: (1) strong repository-friendly policies for immediate OA; (2) national infrastructure for repositories, PIDs/ARKs, diamondOA, and; (3) research assessment reform - while AI looms large

COAR Annual Conference 2025

COAR Annual Conference: Trends in Policy, Discovery, and Innovation The COAR Annual Conference 2025 will take place in Tokyo, Japan on May 12-14, 2025. The conference is being jointly organized by …

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Read our update: Expanding the COAR Notify Ecosystem: coar-repositories.org/news-updates...

The Expanding COAR Notify Ecosystem: Project Update

May 5, 2025 The COAR Notify Project has passed the halfway point of the 4-year project funded by Arcadia. In the past 2.5 years, the COAR Notify team has made significant progress in terms of adopt…

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Don't miss our recently published "Action Plan for Open Repositories in Europe: IMPACT-REPO" coar-repositories.org/news-updates... It outlines what repositories need to do in the coming years to take them to the next level. Thanks @libereurope.bsky.social @sparc-eu.bsky.social @openaire.bsky.social

Action Plan for Open Repositories in Europe: IMPACT-REPO

March 12, 2025 – Today, LIBER, OpenAIRE, SPARC Europe, and COAR are publishing a plan of action to strengthen and future-proof research repositories in Europe.  A robust repository netwo…

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