COAR Annual Meeting 2018: Repositories as central infrastructure of open scholarly communication | ZBW MediaTalk

"From 14 - 17 May 2018 the 7th Annual Meeting of the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) was held at the ZBW in Hamburg. The meeting in Hamburg was attended by 108 participants from 30 nations on all major continents, making it the largest and most international meeting of the network to date. In total, there were around 50 individual lectures and a separate poster session. Behind the COAR lies a global network of now over 130 institutions (libraries, data centres, research funding organisations and ministries). The aims of the COAR are the further development of repositories and the positioning of these in an open scientific landscape. The focus of the meeting was the discussion surrounding COAR’s proposals for “Next Generation Repositories”, the use of repositories for other content than publications (e.g. research data or teaching materials), and various national reports on the subjects of open access and open science...."