CORE becomes the world’s largest open access aggregator (or how about them stats 2018 edition)

This was another productive year for the CORE team; our content providers have increased, along with our metadata and full text records. This makes CORE the world’s largest open access aggregator. More specifically, over the last 3 months CORE had more than 25 million users, tripling our usage compared to 2017. According to Alexa CORE is now the 5,448th most used website globally. (Alexa rank is calculated from a combination of daily visitors and page views on a website over a 3-month period.) To put this into perspective, this shows that CORE is by far one of the most used Open Access Infrastructure services globally and its usage is higher than that of many large institutions. read more...