<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">(Sorry for the cross-posting)</div><div class=""><h2 class="post_title" style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">COAR is pleased to announce the publication of the initial outcomes of the COAR Next Generation Repositories Working Group for public comment. </span></h2><div class="" style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">In April 2016, the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (<a href="https://www.coar-repositories.org/" class="">COAR</a>) launched a working group to help identify new functionalities and technologies for repositories and develop a road map for their adoption. For the past several months, the group has been working to define a vision for repositories and sketch out the priority user stories and scenarios that will help guide the development of new functionalities. </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">The vision is 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.</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Underlying this vision is the idea that a distributed network of repositories can and should be a powerful tool to promote the transformation of the scholarly communication ecosystem. In this context, repositories will provide access to published articles as well as a broad range of artifacts beyond traditional publications such as datasets, pre-prints, working papers, images, software, and so on.</span></div><h4 class="" style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">The working group presents 12 user stories that outline priority functionalities for repositories. The document, to which you can provide public comments directly, is available here: <a href="http://nextgenrepo.coar-repositories.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">nextgenrepo.coar-repositories.<wbr class="">org</a></span></h4><h4 class="" style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">We very much welcome your input, and also encourage you to share this message with your colleagues. We hope to have widespread feedback from the community. </span></h4><h2 class="post_title" style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Public comments are open from February 7 – March 3, 2017</span></h2><div class="">-------</div></div><br class=""><div class="">
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