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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-za"><FONT FACE="Consolas">An alternative to the systematic commercialisation of Open Access data is the formal constitution of COAR: the Confederation of Open Access Repositories, scheduled to take place in Open Access Week 2009.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-za"></SPAN><A HREF="http://www.driver-repository.eu/DRIVER-COAR.html"><SPAN LANG="en-za"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Consolas">http://www.driver-repository.eu/DRIVER-COAR.html</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-za"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-za"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-za"><FONT FACE="Consolas">Emerging as the sustainable outcome of the DRIVER infrastructure, COAR is a community-driven approach, where institutions can determine how they want their repositories to be deployed. The action plan is directed towards international organisational support for Open Access in research infrastructures around the globe. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-za"><FONT FACE="Consolas">COAR utilises the tremendous synergies emerging in higher education between repositories, researchers and research funders to coordinate collaborative networks in the vision of a global knowledge infrastructure. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-za"><FONT FACE="Consolas">Once the legal and technical infrastructures for OA dissemination reach the coverage and maturity that satisfies the researcher's data-sharing concerns and matches the respect that WorldCat enjoys, third party service providers,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-za"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">such as</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-za"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">OCLC</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-za"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> offer to OAIster</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-za"><FONT FACE="Consolas">, become equitable partners without questionable terms and conditions.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-za"><FONT FACE="Consolas">Regards,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-za"><FONT FACE="Consolas">Dale</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="de-de"><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Calibri">Dr D Peters</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="de-de"><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Calibri">Scientific Technical Manager DRIVER II</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="de-de"><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Calibri">State and University Library of Goettingen</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="de-de"><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Calibri">peters@sub.uni-goettingen.de</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="de-de"><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Calibri">Tel: +49 551 39 524</FONT><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Calibri">2</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="de-de"><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Calibri">Fax: +49 551 39 5222</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="de-de"><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Calibri">Mobile:+49 (0)160 989 67663</FONT></SPAN></P>
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