Become a CORE Member
CORE is a mission-driven and not-for-profit endeavour, and we rely on the generous support of ourmembers to support and sustain the service.

All CORE data providers are automatically enrolled as starting members, for free, and receive a wide
range of membership benefits. Our Supporting and Sustaining members are the pillars of our open
scholarly infrastructure service. They enable us in delivering on our mission and help ensure the service
remains free for public use.
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CORE and your repository – working together

CORE works with over 12,000 data providers, delivering services to more than 20
million users each month.

Being a data provider with CORE comes with a wide range of benefits for the repository and its users. eW

provide a central platform for repository managers and librarians to monitor, manage and report on awide range of critical tasks via the CORE Dashboard.

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CORE Repository Dashboard
Get your OAI identifiers resolved toyour repository

Versions and duplicates detectionOA Compliance Dashboard

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Dataset use for your university

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Repository health checko os for your papers

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nlimited and prioritised supportHIncrease your contents’ discoverability andprevent its misuse
Inclusion in CORE ensures the widest possible

dissemination of your open access content, resulting inincreased visibility and discoverability of your papers. We
achieve this by promoting your content to over 30 million
monthly active users of CORE.

Make your papers uniquely identifiable andresolvable with PIDs

Identifiers of metadata records harvested by CORE areautomatically registered as globally unique persistentidentifiers (PIDs). CORE uses for this purpose OAI
identifiers that have been almost universaly adopted
across the network of open access repositories andpublishers.

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e also firmly believe in fairness; the membership fees for the CORE Membership program arestructured in a way to ensure that those from smaller organisations and those from low and low-middle
income countries are not disadvantaged.

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Organisations that join CORE as Supporting and Sustaining Members are making a very publicstatement about their support for Open Access infrastructure, and we could not maintain the service
without this support.

oin CORE today and your organisation can benefit whilst also supporting the Open Science and Open
Access movements.
JAssess and contribute to Open Accesscompliance and FAIRness

In the context of rapidly increasing open access policies(such as REF, UKRI or Plan S) and best practices (such asFAIR), CORE can improve the understanding of yourcontent’s status and help you prepare analytical reports forresearch administrators and funders.

Make your content machine readable

Open access content hosted in repository and journal
platforms is typically not easily usable in analytical, text
and data mining tasks. CORE provides access to open
access content in a machine readable format doing all theheavy lifting with the help of AI. This involves harmonising
metadata, cleaning and creating a structured
representation of scholarly data.

Full details of the CORE Membership program can be viewed on the CORE
website: https://core.ac.uk/membership

Add your repository to CORE today: http://core.ac.uk/benefitsCORE ServicesW

hy do we need CORE

We deliver services for a wide range of audiences, including researchers, libraries, universities, innovative
companies and funders. Process and analyse the largest structured collection of open research with
their full texts, manage your research papers, make them more discoverable, and comply with funder
mandates. All this you can do with CORE Services.

The need for CORE dates to the very origins of the Open Access movement.

Managing content

At CORE (from COnnecting REpositories) our overarching aim is to support the network of repositories by increasing
interoperability and FAIRness of repository metadata and content, helping repositories to become viable alternatives tocommercial publishing platforms through innovative technical solutions, increasing discoverability of repository content, andfacilitating a scalable, cost-effective route to open scholarship.

OAI Resolver

Repository Dashboard

Consulting services

Make OAI identifiers originatingfrom your repository resolve
directly to your repository, turningthem into free-to-mint uniquepersistent identifiers (PIDs) for
open access papers.

A service for our data
providers. It provides an online
interface offering valuable
technical information andstatistics.

Provide guaranteed support
levels to enable repositories togain maximum exposure for
their content and help ensurecompliance with OA policies.

In its declaration in 2001, The Budapest Open Access Initiative suggested the self-archiving route to Open Access. Scholars
need the tools and assistance to deposit their refereed journal articles in open electronic archives (repositories), a practicecommonly called self-archiving. When these repositories conform to standards created by the Open Archives Initiative, thensearch engines and other tools such as CORE can treat the separate archives as one.

CORE also fully subscribes to the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure(POSI) a set of guidelines by which open scholarly infrastructure organisations
and initiatives that support the research community can be run and sustained.

e Principles ofOpen Scholarly
InfrastructureTh“It is important as a community that we support open research infrastructures such as CORE.
Institutions who choose to become CORE Members will help sustain, improve and govern the services
that CORE offers ensuring they serve the wide interests of the scholarly community.”

Content discovery

icola Dowson, Chair of United Kingdom Council of Open Research and Repositories (UKCORR) anda Senior Library Manager for Research Support

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Discovery

Full text search for OA content andfaceted search capability.

The recommender is a plugin forrepositories, journal systems andweb interfaces to suggest similar
articles.

Available both as a browser
extension and a repository plugin,that assists users in finding freely
accessible copies of research
papers.

Access to raw data

“The CORE Repository Dashboard provides an excellent level of feedback and control. It also provides
intelligence on errors which may need troubleshooting, thereby ensuring optimum repository health fortext mining as well as discovery of repository content.”
George McGregor, Institutional Repository Manager, University of Strathclyde“CORE opens new possibilities for data-driven policy making, monitoring and research analytics fromacross geographical and disciplinary boundaries.”

Andy Hepburn, Head of Analysis at Research England

CORE APIA unique and free API providing
real-time machine access tometadata and full texts of research
papers in CORE.

CORE Dataset

FastSync

Download all of CORE data and run
processes in your own
infrastructure. Perfect for
prototyping new methods, data
analysis and text mining.

Keep an always up to date copy ofall CORE data in yourinfrastructure. 

For detailed descriptions of all the services provided by CORE visit:

http://core.ac.uk/services

Current CORE members