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COAR - Confederation of Open Access Repositories @coar-repositories.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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...

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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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Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) Alliance @prcalliance.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

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...

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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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COAR - Confederation of Open Access Repositories @coar-repositories.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

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.

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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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COAR - Confederation of Open Access Repositories @coar-repositories.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

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...

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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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Sara Rouhi @rouhiroo.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

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

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COAR - Confederation of Open Access Repositories @coar-repositories.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

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!!!!

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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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Coalition for Networked Information @cni-org.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

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

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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 - Confederation of Open Access Repositories @coar-repositories.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

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!

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COAR - Confederation of Open Access Repositories @coar-repositories.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

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

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COAR - Confederation of Open Access Repositories @coar-repositories.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

@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.

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COAR - Confederation of Open Access Repositories @coar-repositories.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

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 - Confederation of Open Access Repositories @coar-repositories.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

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

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COAR - Confederation of Open Access Repositories @coar-repositories.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

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!

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COAR - Confederation of Open Access Repositories @coar-repositories.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

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!

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COAR - Confederation of Open Access Repositories @coar-repositories.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

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

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COAR - Confederation of Open Access Repositories @coar-repositories.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

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

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COAR - Confederation of Open Access Repositories @coar-repositories.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

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

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COAR - Confederation of Open Access Repositories @coar-repositories.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

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

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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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