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  A sustainable, inclusive, and trusted global knowledge commons based on a
  network of open access digital repositories
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# COAR's vision

COAR aims 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.

## Resources in Other Languages

This is a video and presentation by Eloy Rodrigues, COAR Chairman, made to a group of University Rectors in Latin America in June 2018.

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Pensando globalmente y actuando localmente by Eloy Rodrigues
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