January 2024

CORE invited to UNESCO workshop on ‘Building an Open Science Monitoring Framework with open technologies’

Professor Petr Knoth, founder and team lead for CORE was recently invited to participate in a workshop entitled ‘Building an Open Science Monitoring Framework with open technologies’ hosted by UNESCO at their Paris headquarters.

With many public and funder policies now mandating Open Access deposit of funded research, the need for tracking and measuring the impact of these policies becomes more pressing. This international workshop brought together more than 50 experts from research organisations, universities, nonprofits and national agencies to discuss how open technologies can best help in this effort and work towards monitoring the progress of open science itself. read more...

University of Chicago adopts CORE’s article deduplication tool

CORE’s unique position with a global view of all open repositories enables us to work closely with its member organisations to develop and deliver tools that benefit repositories and repository managers. CORE recently introduced the new CORE Dashboard Versions and Duplicates module which provides a simple interface for identifying versions and duplicates in a repository. The system identifies different versions of articles and enables side-by-side reviewing. The different versions can then be marked using the widely used NISO Journal Article Versions (JAV) taxonomy. You can read a full overview of the new module in this recent blog post. read more...