<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Dear colleagues,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We still have a few spaces left in this "COAR forum on COVID-19, Open Science and Repositories" so we are opening up registration beyond the COAR community. If you’re interested, you can register through the link below.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Spaces are limited, so you will need to register soon if you want to participate. Please don’t register unless you are sure you can attend.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">COAR will have 2-hour forum on Thursday, 10 September on the role of the open science and open repositories in the context of COVID-10. Those who would like to join can still register <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtcOquqzMsGdZzYjeohM4WibDXcJRelnm5" class="">at this link</a>. Please see the details below.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">Join us on Thursday, September 10 for a 2-hour forum highlighting the role of open science and open repositories in the context of COVID-19.</div><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><div class="fusion-text"><p class="">The forum will showcase several collaborative initiatives from around the world aiming to improve the discovery of and access to COVID-19 research outputs. Participants will learn about the critical need for open science in the time of the pandemic, new workflows and practices that can be adopted in you own local context, and identify possible areas of international collaboration.</p><p class="" style="padding-left: 40px;"><b class="">OpenVirus</b> is a joint UK-India, open repository-based project to extract multidisciplinary semantic knowledge about viral epidemics (including COVID-19) through analysing tens of thousands or articles we can find clues to predict/prevent/mitigate viral epidemics.</p><p class="" style="padding-left: 40px;"><b class="">OpenAIRE COVID-19 Gateway </b>is a portal that provides access to publications, research data, projects and software that may be relevant to the Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19). The OpenAIRE COVID-19 Gateway aggregates COVID-19 related records, links them and provides a single access point for discovery and navigation.</p><p class="" style="padding-left: 40px;"><b class="">Canadian COVID-19 Open Repository Initiative </b>is a collaborative project led by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries to identify and make as many Canadian research outputs related to COVID-19 available through major discovery systems including the OpenAIRE COVID-10 Gateway.</p><hr class=""><p class="">The forum will take place from 1<b class="">4h-16h UTC time (see <a href="https://time.is/UTC" class="">https://time.is/UTC</a>) on Thursday, September 10, 2020</b></p><div class="">Register at <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtcOquqzMsGdZzYjeohM4WibDXcJRelnm5" class="">https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtcOquqzMsGdZzYjeohM4WibDXcJRelnm5</a> </div></div></div></div></div><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="">See the news item here: <a href="https://www.coar-repositories.org/news-updates/coar-forum-on-covid-19-and-open-science/" class="">https://www.coar-repositories.org/news-updates/coar-forum-on-covid-19-and-open-science/</a> </div></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"></div></div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class=""><div class="">Kathleen Shearer</div><div class="">Executive Director</div><div class="">Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)</div><div class=""><a href="http://www.coar-repositories.org" class="">www.coar-repositories.org</a></div></div></body></html>