What is CORE?

CORE (COnnecting REpositories) provides a comprehensive bibliographic database of the world’s scholarly literature, collecting and indexing research from repositories and journals. It is, to our knowledge, also the world’s largest collection of full text open access research papers. CORE is a not-for-profit service dedicated to the open access mission and one of the signatories of the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructures POSI.

We serve the global network of repositories and journals increasing discoverability and preventing misuse of their content; making metadata records uniquely identifiable and resolvable with decentralised PIDs; supporting data providers in adopting good practices by providing tools for metadata validation, content management, enrichment and OA compliance; and facilitating machine access to open research.

Our services support a wide range of stakeholders in getting scalable access to our vast and comprehensive collection of data, specifically researchers, the general public, academic institutions, developers, funders as well as companies from a diverse range of sectors including but not limited to innovators, AI technology companies, digital library solutions and pharma.

Mission

CORE’s mission is to index all research worldwide and deliver unrestricted access for all.

In doing so, we:

  • enrich scholarly data using state-of-the-art text and data mining technologies to aid discoverability,
  • enable others to develop new tools and use cases on top of the CORE platform,
  • support the network of open access repositories and journals with innovative technical, solutions and,
  • facilitate a scalable, cost-effective route for the delivery of open scholarship.

How it works

CORE indexes research papers from data providers including institutional and subject repositories, preprint servers, and open access and hybrid journals.

CORE currently contains 301M open access articles collected from 11K data providers around the world.

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Team

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    Petr Knoth
    Founder & Head of CORE

    “Responsible for leading the team, development & research effort, funding and product strategy. Believes in fre...”
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    Vako Batiashvili
    Full Stack Developer

    “Full Stack Developer specializing in PHP and JavaScript. Experienced in code optimization, maintenance, and fe...”
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    Valeriy Budko
    Full Stack Developer

    “PHP and JavaScript developer. Performs code optimization and implementation of continuous integration. In his ...”
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    Matteo Cancellieri
    Lead Developer (Backend)

    “Works on improving and and maintaining CORE services. He is a detail knowledge base of all CORE services. Has ...”
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    Ekaterine Chkhaidze
    Front-end developer

    “Responsible for creating fascinating user interface and transforming design into website. Outside work she enj...”
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    Artem Minakov
    Back-end developer

    “Focused on enhancing and maintaining backend systems. Outside of work, regularly visits the gym and loves cycl...”
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    Suchetha N.Kunnath
    Research Associate

    “Suchetha's research focuses on the author's affiliation extraction from scientific meta-data and classificatio...”
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    Viktoriia Pavlenko
    UX designer

    “ Creating a design that fits users' needs is my task number 1. Deep diving into user research and finding pain...”
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    David Pride
    Research Associate

    “After completing the PhD, working on observing the Matthew Effect in open science and the ramifications for re...”
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    Friedrich Summann
    Operations manager

    “Member of the OAI and repository community since its beginnings and involved in numerous projects in this area...”
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    Halyna Torchylo
    Personal & Team Administrative Assistant

    “Responsible for handling correspondence, managing calendars and\ appointments, arranging calls, collecting and...”
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    Andrew Vasiliev
    System Administrator

    “Responsible for supporting and maintaining servers. Testing, deploying, and setting up tools to improve CORE p...”
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    Anton Zhuk
    Back-end developer

    “Works on improving and supporting backend systems. Besides the work, he enjoys listening to EDM music, playing...”
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    Michael Upshall
    Community and Outreach Manager

    “After several years working with AI companies making use of scholarly corpora, I have the chance to work with ...”
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Past team members

  • Aristotelis Charalampous
  • Drahomira Herrmannova
  • Alexander Huba
  • Catherine Kuliavets
  • Bethany Walker
  • Anna Zelinska
  • Giorgio Basile
  • Bikash Gyawali
  • Tomas Korec
  • Dominika Koroncziova
  • Magdalena Krygielova
  • Jakub Novotny
  • Gabriela Pavel
  • Ian Tindle
  • Lucas Anastasiou
  • Jozef Harag
  • Sergei Misak
  • Samuel Pearce
  • Nancy Pontika
  • Svetlana Rumyanceva
  • Vladislav Shymanovich
  • Maria Tarasiuk
  • Kostiantyn Voskoboinik
  • Viktor Yakubiv
  • Vojtech Robotka
  • Zdenek Zdrahal

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Contacts

Check our join guidelines.

Please submit your request on the article update page.

Go to our key register page. Make sure you have covered all the relevant information about the API available on our website.

To discuss project and research collaborations or if you represent an industry partner interested in using CORE in your work, please contact:

Prof. Petr Knoth
Knowledge Media institute, The Open University
Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, BUCKS, United Kingdom
petr (dot) knoth (at) open (dot) ac (dot) uk

For any other question or enquiry about CORE you will probably find an answer in our FAQs.

For any questions that have not yet been answered in the FAQs, you can contact us by email. Please note that as we are receiving very high volumes of requests, we are unable to answer questions or deal with requests that fall into the above categories, such as requests to update or remove an article. Such requests will not be answered through this route. However, if your request falls outside of the above categories, you can email us and we will reply when we can.