CORE Membership for data providers
Our Sustaining members are the pillars of our open scholarly infrastructure service. They enable us to deliver our mission, and provide input on new functionality to help repository managers run their system more cost-effectively. In addition, we provide an annual health check to ensure their repository operates with maximum efficiency.
You can subscribe to CORE membership for three years, or for five years. Membership fees are paid annually. All fees are excluding VAT. Membership prices vary according to the number of content objects (“records”) in your repository, and according to the region of the world where your institution is situated.
Data provider size** | ||||||
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3-year fixed deal | 5-year fixed deal | 3-year fixed deal | 5-year fixed deal | 3-year fixed deal | 5-year fixed deal | |
Band 1 up to 5K articles | £1,125 p.a | £1,063 p.a | £2,250 p.a | £2,125 p.a | £3,600 p.a | £3,400 p.a |
Band 2 5K - 10K articles | £2,250 p.a | £2,125 p.a | £4,275 p.a | £4,038 p.a | £4,275 p.a | £4,038 p.a |
Band 3 10K - 20K articles | £3,150 p.a | £2,975 p.a | £6,525 p.a | £6,163 p.a | £10,800 p.a | £10,200 p.a |
Band 4 20K - 40K articles | £4,275 p.a | £4,038 p.a | £8,550 p.a | £8,075 p.a | £14,400 p.a | £13,600 p.a |
Band 5 40K+ articles | £5,400 p.a | £5,100 p.a | £10,800 p.a | £10,200 p.a | £18,000 p.a | £17,000 p.a |
*All fees are excluding VAT.
** This is the number of research outputs produced by your organisation rather than just the number of open access papers CORE has access to. We use this as a proxy for the size of an institution.
We offer discounts to consortia of institutions subscribing to CORE Membership. To qualify for the consortia discount, there needs to be an established and active overarching operational structure of the consortium and the consortium must have public presence. The consortia cannot be formed for the sole purpose of just getting the discount. The consortium discount is provided as a proportion of the membership fees for which would otherwise be due should institutions forming the consortium became CORE Members individually. The discount is only provided if all of the institutions in the consortium become CORE Members.
We invite consortia interested in becoming CORE Members to directly approach us at: [email protected]