DRIVER & COAR – Impact on Access to GreyLit?

Posted on October 22, 2009 by Dean Giustini

Two new initiatives were announced this week because of Open Access Week; both will have a significant impact on the accessibility of scientific research (and grey literature) worldwide: they are DRIVER and COAR.

DRIVER stands for Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research, and makes it possible to search across approximately 1,000,000 documents found in journal articles, dissertations, books, lectures, reports, etc. Its content is harvested regularly from more than 200 institutional or thematic repositories from 23 European countries in 25 languages. (For more information, see the YouTube video below).

COAR – the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (interim website)- was also announced this week. Its aim is “to enhance and progress the provision, visibility and application of research outputs through global networks of Open Access digital repositories”.

About Dean Giustini

I am the UBC Biomedical Branch librarian at Vancouver hospital. I teach at the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, and the School of Population and Public Health.
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