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A Sustainable Future for Scholarly Publishing Through Institutional Repositories

Open Scholar is leading the way in revolutionizing scholarly publishing through institutional repositories. Our recent correspondence in Nature and a feature in 'Mastodon over Mammon' validate our...

Let us not reinvent the wheel: Institutional repositories as innovative publishing infrastructures

We are pleased to share our publication titled "No-pay publishing: use institutional repositories" (Nature 619, 698; 2023). This letter is a contribution to the ongoing debate about an “open...

Neuromatch and the Open Letter to the WHOSTP and Subcommittee on Open Science

Today we host a post by Daniel Goodman, Senior lecturer at Imperial College London, a member of the organization Neuromatch, and co-author of the recent Open letter to the WHOSTP and Subcommittee on...

The Notify Project receives a $4 million grant from the Arcadia Foundation

We celebrate the tenth anniversary of our organisation with the announcement of major funding from the Arcadia Foundation in support of Notify, a project led by COAR with the contribution of Open...

Psicológica and DIGITAL.CSIC join forces for Sustainable Diamond Open Access and Repository as a Publisher Services

We announce the relaunch of Psicológica, the journal of the Spanish Society for Experimental Psychology (SEPEX), as a Diamond Open Access journal published exclusively on DIGITAL.CSIC, the...

A model for overlay peer review on repositories is open for public comment

COAR presents and makes available for public comment a new model for overlay peer review on repositories. This model is a significant step towards the development of a highly distributed architecture...