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COAR Christmas Greetings
Dear members and partners of COAR, As the holiday season approaches, we’d like to take this opportunity to look back to an eventful year for COAR Executive Board, office, members and partners. In 2012...
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COAR Annual Meeting 2013 – first information online
The COAR Annual Meeting 2013 will be held at Özyeğin University Library, İstanbul, Turkey. Please find the first information about the location, venue or travelling at the Meeting page. More...
View ArticleCOAR Annual Meeting 2013 – Call for Proposals
+++++++++++++++++ FOR MEMBERS AND PARTNER ONLY ++++++++++++++++ This year’s COAR Annual Meeting and General Assembly takes place in Istanbul, Turkey on May 7 & 8 2013. The aim of the COAR Annual...
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Learn more about COAR at the OpenAIRE workshop in Minho
COAR Executive Director Alicia Lopez Medina participates at the OpenAIRE interoperability workshop at the University of Minho on 7 & 8 February 2013. This 2 day workshop will concentrate on...
View ArticleLaunch of COAR Repository Observatory
Today we launch the new COAR Task Force “Repository Observatory” (RO) on the COAR website. The aim of this project will be the identification of trends and future scenarios in the context of the use of...
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COAR Repository Observatory: “Repository Profile Series”– first profile online
Profile of the TU Delft Repository: We Make Open Access Personal The Repository Profile series is being produced through the COAR Repository Observatory. Our aim is to capture and share ideas, lessons...
View ArticleRegistration for COAR Annual Meeting 2013 now online
The registration for the 4th COAR Annual Meeting and General Assembly is now open. The meeting will take place on 7. & 8. May in Istanbul, Turkey and will kindly be hosted by Özyegin University...
View ArticleLetter in response to “Licences for Europe” working group meeting – COAR...
In response to the “Licences for Europe- A Stakeholder Dialogue” working group meeting on text and data mining for scientific research purposes, participants from LIBER, EBLIDA and further key...
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Joint response to EC Research Data Framework from COAR LIBER and OpenAIRE
COAR, LIBER and OpenAIRE have jointly responded to a proposal from DG Connect for a Framework for Action addressing research data infrastructures. LIBER, COAR and OpenAIRE strongly support the...
View ArticleResearch Data Alliance First Plenary
The Research Data Alliance is an emerging international organization whose goal is to accelerate international data-driven innovation and discovery by facilitating research data sharing and exchange,...
View ArticleJapan’s National OA Mandate for ETDs
On 1 April 2013, Japan’s new rules for degrees came into effect. Doctoral degree awardees are obliged to make their theses accessible on the Internet with aid from degree awarding institutions. In...
View ArticleIASSIST 2013: Panel “Data Centers and Institutional Partnerships”
In view of data driven research, data sharing policies and measures for research data management institutional repositories play an expanding role for sharing, linking and exposing of research data...
View ArticleCOAR website in Chinese
Ms. Xiaowei Yang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences who was working with COAR for the last three months translated several pages of the COAR website into Chinese. Pages that are available in Chinese...
View ArticleNew „COAR Talk“ with Webometrics-Mastermind Isidro F. Aguillo
The new interview partner for the “COAR Talks” section of the COAR Repository Observatory is Isidro F. Aguillo, the main Editor of the Webometrics “Ranking Web of Repositories”. The half hour interview...
View ArticleMeeting of the G8 + O5 Data Working Group on 4 March 2013 in Abingdon, UK
On the 4th of March the G8 + O5 Data Working Group came together for the third time after its launch in May 2011 and was hosted at Cosener’s House in Abingdon (near the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)....
View ArticleThe World Bank joins COAR for membership
The Confederation of Open Access Repositories is pleased to welcome the World Bank as new member. The World Bank launched its Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) in April 2012 and it has grown impressively...
View Article113 participants at Spanish webinar „Hacia la universalidad del Acceso Abierto”
On 22 May 2013 the webinar “Hacia la universalidad del Acceso Abierto” took place with an amazing number of 113 participants from over 15 countries (Columbia, Venezuela, Argentina, Mexico and many...
View ArticleSuccessful COAR presentation at IASSIST 2013
This years ‘International Association for Social Science Information Services & Technology’ (IASSIST) Annual Conference took place from May 28 – May 31, 2013 in Cologne, Germany. The panel ‘Data...
View ArticleSustainable Practices for Populating Repositories Report published
COAR announces the publication of the report, “Incentives, Integration, and Mediation: Sustainable Practices for Populating Repositories” by COAR Working Group 1: Repository Content. The report...
View ArticleKathleen Shearer is new Executive Director at COAR
COAR welcomes Kathleen Shearer as new Executive Director starting 1 June 2013. A native of Canada, Kathleen has been a founding person of COAR and has been very active building up Working Group 1...
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