From: Kathleen Shearer <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2021 12:28:51 -0500

(Sorry for any cross-posting)

COAR is pleased to announce the launch of a new project, *Notify: The
Repositories and Services Interoperability Project*
<https://www.coar-repositories.org/notify-repository-and-services-interoperability-project/>

This project builds on previous work of COAR to advance the vision first
outlined in the COAR Next Generation Repositories Initiative
<https://www.coar-repositories.org/news-updates/what-we-do/next-generation-repositories/>*
–
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*  – and further articulated
in the Pubfair White Paper
<https://www.coar-repositories.org/files/Pubfair-version-2-November-27-2019-2.pdf>,
which describes a distributed framework for open publishing services.

In 2020, COAR published a generic technical model
<https://comments.coar-repositories.org/> to enable the linking of
preprints and other repository resources with external services, with an
initial focus on peer review services. The technical model – which was
developed based on a number of use cases provided by preprint servers,
repositories, peer review services and overlay journals – applies a
distributed, message-oriented approach based on W3C Linked Data
Notifications (LDN).

In a practical sense, this model will enable a researcher to deposit an
article (or other types of research output) into any compliant repository,
choose from a list of peer review services and overlay journals, and
request a review. The repository will send an automated  message to the
peer review service, and further bilateral interactions between the
author(s), and the overlay review service(s) will be automated.

The *Notify Project* will assist implementing partners with adopting a
common and interoperable model to support reviews and endorsements on
distributed resources in repositories, preprints and archives.

More information is available on the project webpage
<https://www.coar-repositories.org/notify-repository-and-services-interoperability-project/>
.

Kathleen Shearer
Executive Director
Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)
www.coar-repositories.org