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Showing Up for a Global Network: A CORE Webinar for the Ukrainian Open Repositories Community

In November 2025, CORE publicly announced its strategic support for the creation of the Ukrainian open repositories community, led by the Scientific and Technical Library of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. At the time, we described this partnership as both a strategic and deeply personal commitment rooted in solidarity, collaboration, and long-term investment in Ukraine’s open research infrastructure.

Today, that commitment continues in practice.

On 25 February 2026, CORE will take part in a dedicated webinar hosted in partnership with The KPI Library, designed specifically for Ukrainian librarians, researchers, and repository administrators and delivered in Ukrainian. read more...

Understanding the CORE Dashboard: A Closer Look at the Overview Tab

As CORE marks 15 years of supporting open scholarly infrastructure, we’re launching a short educational series to help repository managers make the most of the CORE Dashboard. Each instalment will take you through one area of the dashboard, unpack what the data means, and explain how it can support visibility, quality, and compliance goals.

We start with the Overview tab the first thing you see when you log into the dashboard, and the quickest way to understand how your repository is represented in CORE. read more...

CORE and Jisc Renew UK Membership Partnership to Support Sustainable Open Research Infrastructure

We are pleased to share that CORE and The Open University have renewed our partnership with Jisc, continuing to provide UK institutions with access to CORE Membership through the Jisc Licence Subscriptions Manager (LSM) Platform from 1 December 2025 to 30 November 2028.

This renewal reflects our ongoing commitment to the UK research community, supporting open, reliable infrastructure for repository indexing, metadata quality, and FAIR-aligned research outputs. By maintaining this continuity, UK institutions can continue to benefit from CORE’s tools and services for enhancing the discoverability, visibility, and open access compliance monitoring of research outputs. read more...

SoFAIR final webinar

The final SoFAIR webinar, held online on 11 December 2025, presented the goals, methodology, and outcomes of the SoFAIR project (Making Software FAIR: A machine-assisted workflow for the research software lifecycle). SoFAIR is a two-year CHIST-ERA funded project, led by The Open University, and involving six partners across four countries.

The SoFAIR project partners

The project’s overarching goal is addressing persistent challenges in research software discoverability, attribution, and long-term preservation. Research software is frequently mentioned only implicitly in scholarly articles, preventing it from becoming a first-class, FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) research object. read more...

Webinar Series Recap: Becoming a Professional User of the CORE Dashboard

On 3 December 2025, CORE (COnnecting REpositories) hosted the latest live training session in our webinar series, Become a Professional User of the CORE Dashboard. We extend our sincere thanks to the many participants who joined us from across Europe, Africa, the United States and beyond. The high level of attendance and engagement was truly encouraging, bringing together a diverse group of repository managers, research support teams, journal editors and open access practitioners.

The session, led by Prof. Petr Knoth (Founder & Head of CORE) and Catherine Kuliavets (Community & Relationship Manager), offered a comprehensive walkthrough of the Dashboard. We explored critical features designed to support the research lifecycle, including discoverability tools, indexing monitoring, metadata validation, and our evolving suite of Open Access and FAIR compliance modules. read more...

PRESS RELEASE

CORE Announces Strategic Support for the Creation of the Ukrainian open repositories community

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom – 27 November 2025

CORE is pleased to announce its formal support for the creation of the Ukrainian open repositories community, a national initiative led by the Scientific and Technical Library of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. This partnership marks an important milestone in strengthening Ukraine’s open research environment during a time of unprecedented national challenge. read more...

SoFAIR study paper accepted to JCDL2025

The Open University is the project coordinator for the 2-year CHIST-ERA funded SoFAIR project which aims to make research software a first-class, FAIR research object (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable).

We are excited to share that our paper, “Identifying and Classifying Software Mentions in Full-Text Scholarly Documents,” has been accepted for presentation at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2025). This work reports the first systematic evaluation of large language models (LLMs) for detecting and classifying software mentions in research papers. Using benchmark datasets, SoftCite, SoMeSci, and the new SoFAIR corpus the study compares different prompting and retrieval strategies, showing that LLM-based approaches substantially outperform previous rule-based and conventional NLP methods, particularly across a multi-disciplinary corpus. The work demonstrates the potential for LLMs to move software-mention detection from a research challenge toward a deployable capability, capable of extracting software names, versions, and publishers. read more...

We Are Open Access And We’re Reclaiming Knowledge Together

This International Open Access Week, the global research community is asking a vital question: Who owns our knowledge?

At CORE (COnnecting REpositories), our answer is clear and unapologetic:
We all do.

For over a decade, CORE has stood at the forefront of the open access movement, not as a passive service, but as an active builder of open scholarly infrastructure that enables research ideas to be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) in a free, visible, and inclusive manner. We don’t just support open access. We are open access. read more...

Co-Designing the Next 15 Years: Highlights from CORE’s Board of Supporters Meeting

Twice each year, CORE’s Board of Supporters (BoS) meeting brings together our members, partners, and collaborators to exchange ideas, share progress, and shape the priorities that guide our development. The October 2025 meeting marked yet another successful, well-attended session and the second of two such gatherings this year. It served as a powerful reminder of how community governance has been central to CORE’s growth and sustainability, and celebrated our 15th anniversary.

Over the years, CORE has evolved from a national repository service to one of the world’s leading open scholarly infrastructures. This success is rooted in the principles of openness, co-design, and shared responsibility, values we continue to uphold through the Board of Supporters. read more...

CORE Founder to Present at Yale University CS Talk Series

We’re pleased to share that Professor Petr Knoth, Founder and Head of CORE (core.ac.uk) and Professor of Data Science at The Open University’s Knowledge Media Institute, will be giving a Computer Science Talk at Yale University on 13 October 2025.

In his talk, titled “COnnecting REpositories (CORE) an open scholarly infrastructure by researchers for researchers,”Petr will introduce CORE’s role in advancing global open scholarship. He will highlight how CORE supports discoverability, interoperability, and machine access to research outputs, while also showcasing innovations from the Big Scientific Data and Text Analytics Group (BSDTAG) including CORE-GPT, SDG: Classify, and SoFAIR. read more...