A Vision for U.S. Repositories

Abstract

As part of its Modernizing the Global Repository Network initiative, the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) partnered with SPARC to hire a Visiting Program Officer for the U.S. Repository Network. Tina Baich has been serving in this role since September 2021. In this presentation, Tina will share the work she has led to create a strategic vision for U.S. repositories to be operationalized by the nascent U.S. Repository Network (USRN). Envisioned as an inclusive community of U.S. repositories, the USRN will build a national strategy and create an action plan for achieving the strategic vision and thereby helping to transform scholarly communication.