About KOAR and its Services

Korea Open Access Platform for Researchers (KOAR) enables any Korean researcher to easily search and use open access articles from all around the world free of cost or any barrier.

KOAR facilitates open science environment so that research outcomes can be freely accessible and disseminated by helping researchers to publish open access articles through co-authoring and to self-archive their research outputs researchers and supports OA publishing for Korean journals.

Why KOAR

• Access to every articles in KOAR KOAR harvest open access data from data providers from around the world including open access and hybrid publishers and open repositories. Users can easily discover open access articles on KOAR.
• Provide open access contents KOAR not only provides articles but also help users to monitor global trend regarding open access such as open access issues, events and guidelines.
• Provide collaborative platform to researchers On the KOAR Platform, researchers can use real-time co-authoring tool and repository to share their research outcomes and collaborate with researchers around the world.
• On-Site system Users can access contents provided by KOAR on websites they frequently visit through Chrome Extension and Open API.
  • How to Use Browser Extension
  • How to Use Open API

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