%0 Book Section %A Katharina Müller and Arvid Deppe and Maxie Gottschling and Eloy Rodrigues and Kathleen Shearer %T Stepping Up Towards Greater Alignment of Repository Networks %D 2016 %I IOS Press %J Positioning and Power in Academic Publishing: Players, Agents and Agendas %X Over the past few years, the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) has established the initiative “Aligning Repository Networks” in order to foster global repository interoperability and align policies and practices internationally. This paper outlines several activities to align major repository networks across the globe strategically, technically and on the service level. %R doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-649-1-142 %G en