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<div class="" style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;">Inoltriamo
messaggio inviato da Kathleen Shearer, COAR Executive Director
a diverse liste anche a nome di Eloy Rodrigues, COAR Chairman .<br>
Paola<br>
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<div class="" style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;">COAR is pleased to
announce the publication of the work of the Next Generation
Repositories Working Group, <em class=""><a
href="https://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/advocacy-leadership/working-group-next-generation-repositories/"
class="">Behaviours and Technical Recommendations of the
COAR Next Generation Repositories Working Group</a></em></div>
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<div class="" style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;">In April 2016, the
Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) launched the
Next Generation Repository Working Group to identify new
functionalities and technologies for repositories. In this
report, we are pleased to present the results of the work of
this group, including recommendations for the adoption of new
technologies, standards, and protocols that will help
repositories become more integrated into the web environment and
enable them to play a larger role in the scholarly communication
ecosystem.</div>
<p class="" style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;">The current system
for disseminating research, which is dominated by commercial
publishers, is far from ideal. In an economic sense, prices for
both subscriptions and APCs are over-inflated and will likely
continue to rise at unacceptable rates. Additionally, there are
significant inequalities in the international publishing system
both in terms of access and participation. The incentives built
into the system, which oblige researchers to publish in
traditional publishing venues, perpetuate these problems and
greatly stifle our ability to evolve and innovate.</p>
<p class="" style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;">At COAR, we believe
the globally distributed network of more than 3000 repositories
can be leveraged to create a more sustainable and innovative
system for sharing and building on the results of research.
Collectively, repositories can provide a comprehensive view of
the research of the whole world, while also enabling each
scholar and institution to participate in the global network of
scientific and scholarly enquiry. Building additional services
such as standardized usage metrics, peer review and social
networking on top of a trusted global network of repositories
has the potential to offer a viable alternative.</p>
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<p class="">The vision underlying the work of Next Generation
Repositories is,</p>
<p class=""><i class="">To position repositories as the
foundation for a distributed, globally networked
infrastructure for scholarly communication, on top of which
layers of value added services will be deployed, thereby
transforming the system, making it more research-centric,
open to and supportive of innovation, while also
collectively managed by the scholarly community.</i></p>
<p class="">An important component of this vision is that
repositories will provide access to a wide variety of research
outputs, creating the conditions whereby a greater diversity
of contributions to the scholarly record will be accessible,
and also formally recognized in research assessment processes.</p>
<p class="">Our vision is aligned with others, such as <a
href="https://future-of-libraries.mit.edu/" class="">MIT’s
Future of Libraries Report</a> and <a
href="https://www.liberquarterly.eu/articles/10.18352/lq.10170/"
class="">Lorcan Dempsey’s notion of the “inside-out” library</a>,
that are defining a new role of libraries in the 21st century.
This future involves a shift away from libraries purchasing
content for their local users, towards libraries curating and
sharing with the rest of the world the research outputs
produced at their institution. COAR’s mission is to ensure
that, as libraries and research organizations invest in and
enhance their local services, they adopt common standards and
functionalities that will allow them to participate in the
global network. We very much hope that the recommendations
provided in this report will contribute to the transition
towards this new role for repositories and libraries.</p>
<p class="">This was a truly collaborative effort. We would like
to sincerely thank the members of the <a
href="https://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/advocacy-leadership/working-group-next-generation-repositories/next-generation-repositories-working-group/"
class="">Next Generation Repositories Working Group</a> for
their generous contributions and significant efforts towards
this undertaking. They have brought a breadth and depth of
expertise, without which we would not have been able to
accomplish this work. We are very grateful!</p>
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<div class="">Eloy Rodrigues, COAR Chairman and Kathleen Shearer,
COAR Executive Director</div>
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<div class="">Kathleen Shearer</div>
<div class="">Executive Director, Confederation of Open Access
Repositories (COAR)</div>
<div class=""><a href="mailto:m.kathleen.shearer@gmail.com"
class="">m.kathleen.shearer@gmail.com</a> - +1 514 992
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<div class="">Skype: kathleen.shearer2 - twitter:
@KathleeShearer</div>
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