LIBER and COAR have announced a partnership agreement with the aim of strengthening the role of repositories in Europe. This new agreement provides a framework for joint strategic actions that will reinforce the important role of libraries in sustaining and advancing open repositories in the region.
The partnership agreement outlines a number of collaborative activities including promoting the role of repositories in open access and open science in Europe; developing sustainable models for repositories and repository networks; and advancing new innovations in the repository landscape, such as the COAR Notify Project.
COAR is an international association with over 150 members and partners from 50 countries on all 5 continents. COAR brings together individual repositories and repository networks in order to build capacity, align policies and practices, and act as a global voice for the repository community. Underlying COAR’s work are the fundamental principles off openness, diversity, sustainability, and innovation.
LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche – Association of European Research Libraries) is the main network for research libraries in Europe. Founded in 1971, the association (a Foundation or Stichting under Dutch law from 2009) has grown steadily to include more than 440 national, university and other libraries from over 40 countries.
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