<div dir="ltr">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.<div><br><a href="https://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/advocacy-leadership/working-group-next-generation-repositories/">https://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/advocacy-leadership/working-group-next-generation-repositories/</a></div></div>