Supporting Repository Deposit Workflows Following the Retirement of Publications Router

08 May 2026

The recent announcement to retire Jisc Publications Router has prompted important conversations across the repositories community about how institutions currently relying on these workflows will continue identifying and managing newly published research outputs that have not yet been deposited in their repositories.

For repository teams, these workflows play an important role in maintaining comprehensive and timely institutional records of scholarly outputs while reducing the administrative burden placed on researchers and repository staff. Reliance on manual deposit workflows can create significant overheads for repository teams and make it more difficult for institutions to maintain a comprehensive scholarly record. In some institutions, automated deposit workflows also play an important role in supporting compliance with open access policies and related reporting requirements. As institutions review how these workflows will continue following the retirement of Publications Router, many are also considering what replacement infrastructure may emerge to support these processes in the future. read more...

Connecting Global Insight to Action: The CORE Advisory Board

In our most recent CORE newsletter, we shared updates across CORE’s services, partnerships, and community initiatives, reflecting continued progress in advancing open access and strengthening global repository infrastructure.

As part of this ongoing evolution, the CORE Advisory Board has been refreshed, bringing together an internationally diverse group of experts whose collective insight continues to guide CORE’s direction.

An important part of that progress sits behind the scenes: ensuring that CORE remains closely aligned with the needs, priorities, and realities of the global research community. read more...

 Join CORE at The Big Migration Conference

In just 17 days, CORE will be taking part in The Big Migration Conference, a gathering of people working across repositories, libraries, and research infrastructure to shape how scholarly communication continues to evolve.

We’re looking forward to contributing two closely connected sessions that sit at the heart of what we care about at CORE: helping repositories not just participate in open science, but genuinely thrive within it.

The first session, Connecting Repositories, will be presented by Professor Petr Knoth. It offers an overview of CORE as an open scholarly infrastructure indexing millions of open access research outputs from repositories and journals around the world. Beyond the scale, the focus is on what this enables in practice from improving discoverability and reuse of research, to supporting interoperability, metadata quality, and compliance in increasingly complex research environments. It will also touch on some of the work coming out of the Big Scientific Data and Text Analytics Group, including CORE-GPT for trustworthy question answering over scholarly literature, SDG classification of research outputs, and SoFAIR, which supports reproducibility and research software management. read more...

CORE Board of Supporters Meeting April 2026

Community, infrastructure, and the future of open research

On 15 April 2026, CORE welcomed its global community of members to the biannual Board of Supporters meeting , a session that brought together strategic updates, collaborative discussions, and forward-looking priorities shaping the future of open research infrastructure.

With participation from repository managers, institutional stakeholders, and CORE leadership, the meeting reinforced one central theme: community-led development remains at the heart of CORE’s evolution. read more...

Understanding your repository’s indexing status in CORE

As part of our ongoing CORE Dashboard Educational Series, this second installment focuses on the Indexing Status tab. This tab provides detailed insights into how CORE indexes your repository, highlights any issues, and offers actionable information to help you manage and improve repository visibility. Whether you’re a repository manager, librarian, or scholarly communications professional, understanding these metrics is key to maintaining high-quality, discoverable content.

All information about indexing your repository by CORE is placed under the “Indexing Issues” tab. It contains all details, numbers, dates, and issues that can be useful for repository managers managing repositories.  In the “Indexing status” tab, we have 4 main sections: read more...

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 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...