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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> coar-member [mailto:coar-member-bounces@sub.uni-goettingen.de]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Kathleen Shearer via coar-member<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 07, 2017 3:26 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> members@coar-repositories.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [coar-member] Next Generation Repositories - request for public comments<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h2><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-weight:normal">Dear COAR members, </span><o:p></o:p></h2>
<h2><span style="font-size:10.5pt">COAR is pleased to announce the publication of the initial outcomes of the COAR Next Generation Repositories Working Group for public comment. </span><o:p></o:p></h2>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">In April 2016, the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (<a href="https://www.coar-repositories.org/">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><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">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><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">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><o:p></o:p></p>
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<h4><span style="font-size:10.5pt">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/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">nextgenrepo.coar-repositories.org</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></h4>
<h4><span style="font-size:10.5pt">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><o:p></o:p></h4>
<h2><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Public comments are open from February 7 – March 3, 2017</span><o:p></o:p></h2>
<h3><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-weight:normal">All the best, </span><o:p></o:p></h3>
<h3><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-weight:normal">Kathleen</span><o:p></o:p></h3>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Kathleen Shearer</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Executive Director, Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><a href="mailto:m.kathleen.shearer@gmail.com">m.kathleen.shearer@gmail.com</a> - +1 514 992 9068</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Skype: kathleen.shearer2 - twitter: @KathleeShearer</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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