The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) recently provided a response to the guidance on the implementation of Plan S, and hosted a webinar with the repository community to discuss Plan S requirements and the potential implications of them for repositories.
Kathleen Shearer, Executive Director of COAR led the webinar together with Paul Walk, member of the COAR Next Generation Repositories Working Group, who provided important context and details related to the technical aspect of the COAR response. Shearer briefly explained COAR's reaction and response webinar participants and opened the floor for the questions and comments about the Plan S compliant repository requirements.
In general, COAR is strongly supportive of Plan S, that the repositories are included as a mechanism for complying with Plan S (as they are important to ensure innovation in the scholarly publishing system) but has some reservations about the specific functional requirements for repositories as currently outlined.
COAR will be revising its response to Plan S based on these discussions and other community feedback and will submit a final, formal response before February 1, 2019 and also post it on the COAR website.
Webinar recording and the slides of the presentation are now available through their channels.
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