<Please excuse any cross-posting> COAR is pleased to offer a webinar for Open Access Week on the topic of “Next Generation Repositories”.
The nearly ubiquitous deployment of repository systems in higher education and research institutions provides the foundation for a distributed, globally networked infrastructure for scholarly communication. However, repository platforms are still using technologies and protocols designed almost twenty years ago, before the boom of the Web and the dominance of Google, social networking, semantic web and ubiquitous mobile devices. This is, in large part, why repositories have not fully realized their potential. In April 2016, COAR launched a Working Group <https://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/advocacy-leadership/working-group-next-generation-repositories/> to identify the core functionalities for the next generation of repositories. These functionalities include more web-friendly architectures, embedding repositories into the workflow of researchers, open peer review and quality assessment of content, and better impact and usage measures. With these new functionalities, we aim 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. COAR invites you to join us for presentations and a discussion about the future potential for repositories in the coming years. The webinar will be live streamed twice on Tuesday, October 25, 2016, to ensure it can be attended by people in several different regions: 8h GMT and 15h GMT. See the GMT Converter <http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/gmt-converter/>to find out the time in your location. The webinar will be openly available to all and you are welcome to offer this webcast as part of the open access activities in your institution: https://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/webinar-and-discussion/webinar-next-generation-repositories/ Please register by October 21st: Registration form <https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TN5TDY9> for 8h GMT Registration form <https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/T3D93BW> for 15h GMT ———————— Kathleen Shearer Executive Director, Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) m.kathleen.shea...@gmail.com <mailto:m.kathleen.shea...@gmail.com> - +1 514 992 9068 Skype: kathleen.shearer2 - twitter: @KathleeShearer
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