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<span class="font-calibri"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#565656">In November 2017, the COAR Next Generation Repositories Working Group published a report outlining new behaviours and technologies for repositories.</span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#565656">  </span></p>
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<span class="font-calibri"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#565656">The aim 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></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#565656">  </span></p>
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<span class="font-calibri"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#565656">The behaviours and technologies are now available on a dedicated</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#565656"> </span></span><span class="font-calibri"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#565656"><a href="http://coar.cmail20.com/t/j-i-bcduhy-l-y/"><span style="color:#41637E">website</span></a></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#565656"> </span></span><span class="font-calibri"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#565656">and
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 We welcome community feedback about existing recommendations and suggestions for other technologies not yet identified.</span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#565656">  </span></p>
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