Last version: 2024-12-30
CORE (COnnecting REpositories) provides a comprehensive bibliographic database of the world’s scholarly literature, collecting and indexing research from repositories and journals. It is 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.
| Name | CORE |
|---|---|
| Website | https://core.ac.uk/ |
| Owner | Knowledge Media Institute at the Open University |
| Owner type | Non profit organization |
| Owner country | United Kingdom |
| Launch year | 2011 |
| Scope | Any |
| Number of items | 294 M papers |
| Access for index users | Free |
| Access for index data providers | Free for basic discovery service Membership fees for additional services : https://core.ac.uk/membership |
| Documentation | Core Data provider's Guide: https://core.ac.uk/documentation/data-providers-guide Dataset documentation: https://core.ac.uk/documentation/dataset API: https://api.core.ac.uk/docs/v3 |
| Application form for providers | https://core.ac.uk/benefits#join-core |
| Service type | Fully automated aggregator |
|---|---|
| Content type | Research papers from data providers including institutional and subject repositories, preprint servers, and open access and hybrid journals, information about datasets and research software |
| Content language | Any |
| Content geographical provenance | Any |
| Indexing level for publications | Paper/ Article |
| Full text | Full text when available |
| Index sources | Institutional/Thematic repositories, Aggregators, Journal/publisher archives, Institutional/National CRIS systems, Metadata catalogues, Complete list here: https://core.ac.uk/data-providers/?q=\&size=20 |
| Supported standards | Dublin Core, RIOXX |
| Contact address for providers | theteam@core.ac.uk |
| Bibliodiversity support | CORE indexes all metadata records in a repository, but it is in position to index full text records in PDF only. The index are working though to include other file types, such as HTML webpages, images etc. |
Additional services
CORE Recommender:
https://core.ac.uk/services/recommender
CORE Discovery: https://core.ac.uk/services/discovery
OAI (Open Archives Initiative) resolver: https://core.ac.uk/documentation/oai-resolver
CORE Dashboard:
https://core.ac.uk/services/repository-dashboard
Consulting Services: https://core.ac.uk/services/consultancy
Core API: https://core.ac.uk/services/api
Automatic harvest from a list of aggregators: https://core.ac.uk/data-providers/?q=&size=10
Possibility to add a new data provider registration by completion of a form: https://core.ac.uk/benefits#join-core
Data Collection Process
Metadata are collected upon submission by data providers and automatically identified and registered via OAI-PMH
Editorial minimum requirements
Scholarly literature
Technical minimum requirements
Metadata standard
Dublin core, RIOXX
Data file format
No limitation, but only PDF can be displayed on CORE.
Metadata file format
XML
Metadata mandatory fields
Title
Author
Language
Publisher
Identifier
Acceptation date
Publication date
Editorial additional specifications
None
Technical additional specifications
None