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Data, data, data

CORE provides a comprehensive bibliographic database of the world’s scholarly literature.

Our dataset is huge, global, and widely used.

CORE is a comprehensive collection of 414M searchable scholarly resources

CORE indexes metadata and content from a wide range of data providers including institutional, subject and preprint repositories as well as journals.

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You can access the data programmatically and do exciting and powerful things with it

CORE APICORE API
CORE DatasetCORE Dataset
CORE FastSyncCORE FastSync
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CORE provides access to an estimated 306M free to read full text research papers with 43M full texts hosted directly by CORE

It's the biggest collection of open access full texts, making it an unparalleled research tool.

Aspiring for completeness

While other bibliographic databases only include scholarly works with registered DOIs, CORE is able to find and index in addition scholarly works without them. In fact, about half of CORE’s works do not have a DOI. Those works are missing in most other scholarly databases, making CORE truly unique and a necessity for any service that cannot afford to omit important studies.

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CORE provides access to:

  • 414M 

    metadata records of scholarly resources,

  • 270M 

    unique deduplicated research works,

  • 100M+ 

    abstracts,
more than any other scholarly database.
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We're truly global, aggregating from 13K data providers, in more than 150 countries.

And we're used by every country in the world.

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Disclaimer: The exact statistics might differ based on the used CORE service (Search, API, Dataset, FastSync). This is due to the application of different data quality filtering mechanisms across these services.