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 305M open access articles collected from 11K data providers around the world.

Team

Petr Knoth
Founder & Head of CORE
Responsible for leading the team, development & research effort, funding and product strategy. Believes in free unrestricted access to research for all. Developed the first CORE prototype in 2010. Excited by improving machine access to scientific literature to support text and data analysis.
Vako Batiashvili
Full Stack Developer
Full Stack Developer specializing in PHP and JavaScript. Experienced in code optimization, maintenance, and feature implementation. Outside of work, you usually find him on nearby basketball courts.
Valeriy Budko
Full Stack Developer
PHP and JavaScript developer. Performs code optimization and implementation of continuous integration. In his spare time, he upgrades a long-range quadrocopter to monitor environmental conditions.
Matteo Cancellieri
Lead Developer (Backend)
Works on improving and and maintaining CORE services. He is a detail knowledge base of all CORE services. Has been developing for CORE for several years and Continuous Integration secret lover. Once he was a Super Mario plumber.
Ekaterine Chkhaidze
Front-end developer
Responsible for creating fascinating user interface and transforming design into website. Outside work she enjoys crocheting, playing board games (owns a collection actually), and baking.
Artem Minakov
Back-end developer
Focused on enhancing and maintaining backend systems. Outside of work, regularly visits the gym and loves cycling and hiking, especially exploring new trails on the weekends.
Suchetha N.Kunnath
Research Associate
Suchetha's research focuses on the author's affiliation extraction from scientific meta-data and classification of scholarly publications based on the UN Sustainable Development Goals using NLP and IR. Outside of work, she likes to experiment with photography.
Viktoriia Pavlenko
UX designer
Creating a design that fits users' needs is my task number 1. Deep diving into user research and finding pain points helps me to make better products.
David Pride
Research Associate
After completing the PhD, working on observing the Matthew Effect in open science and the ramifications for responsible research metrics.
Halyna Torchylo
Personal & Team Administrative Assistant
Responsible for handling correspondence, managing calendars and\ appointments, arranging calls, collecting and processing information from external resources,\ liaising with the team, suppliers and clients. She enjoys languages, boardgaming, reading, and mountain skiing when free.
Andrew Vasiliev
System Administrator
Responsible for supporting and maintaining servers. Testing, deploying, and setting up tools to improve CORE performance. Lover of automatizing routine.
Anton Zhuk
Back-end developer
Works on improving and supporting backend systems. Besides the work, he enjoys listening to EDM music, playing TBS games and reading books. Dreams of travelling across North America.
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 a corpus directly! I’m fascinated to learn more from our current and potential users of CORE, whether in institutions or corporate environments. I’ve been involved in scholarly publishing for more years than I care to remember, including writing and presenting, but I like best meeting people at face-to-face events (remember those?) and helping to discover how technology can solve business problems. [email protected]

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

Join CORE

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Update or remove article

Please submit your request on the article update page.

Get an API key

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

Research collaborations, partnership

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

Other requests

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.