This report provides an overview of the current state of repositories, the status of alignment across repositories and repository networks, and a vision and roadmap for next steps. COAR’s vision is to leverage the existing global repository network to position repositories and research institutions as the foundation for a distributed, globally networked infrastructure for scholarly communication, on top of which layers of value added services will be deployed, thereby transforming the system, making it more research-centric, open to and supportive of innovation, while also collectively managed by the scholarly community.