COAR obtained a $4 million grant from Arcadia, a fund from Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. The 4-year funding will go to the Notify project, which is developing and implementing a standard protocol to connect content in the distributed network of repositories with peer reviews and evaluations in external services, using linked data notifications.

This funding will allow COAR to accelerate and expand current project activities, which have been underway since January 2021. COAR will work on the development of the project with other partners: Antleaf, Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Minho Libraries; as well as with a range of services and deployment infrastructures and certain domain communities.

“We are very pleased to receive this funding, which allows us to introduce significant innovation to the broad landscape of repositories in support of research,” said Martha Whitehead, president of COAR and vice president of the Harvard Library.

Notify builds on years of work by COAR to enhance the role of repositories, thereby transforming academic communities, making them more research-centric, community-governed, and responsive to the world’s diverse needs.

**“Project Notify will reduce the so-called green/gold route distinction by connecting repository contents to external review services,” said Kathleen Shearer, COAR Executive Director. “It will lead to greater transparency and help increase public trust in science, while creating a framework for a much more interconnected and vibrant research communications system.”

Seeking to have a broader impact, the project will work in three dimensions: platforms and services, domain communities and national/regional environments. The end result is intended to be groups of interrelated services that use the Notify Protocol to manage interactions related to peer review on repository resources, and an open protocol that others can easily implement for a variety of use cases.