In December 2022, we launched the CORE Membership program for data providers. 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 POSI. We have since seen this membership grow to over 30 institutions who have committed to supporting CORE, and the membership program is now a key component of CORE’s long term sustainability plan.
Our wonderful CORE members!
Today we are extremely happy to announce the latest addition to our membership roll. The University of Glasgow has committed to support CORE as a sustaining member for the next five years. This is a fantastic public commitment and we are extremely grateful to the team at Glasgow for their support and acknowledgement for the work that CORE does.
Long term Open Access advocate, and Assistant Director for Library Services at Glasgow, Dr. George Macgregor stated;
The University of Glasgow recognises CORE’s position as an essential component of open scholarly infrastructure, central to delivering the promise of open research and key to powering scholarly discoveries of the future. CORE’s aggregation of global scholarly output — and its underlying data corpus — is having a transformational impact on how HEIs approach open research, especially Open Access. The CORE aggregation is now of such scale, and its technical features so innovative and flexible, that open repositories benefit from the additional exposure CORE can provide, both through resource discovery and contributing to text and data mining (TDM) discoveries. But repositories also benefit from CORE’s open research tools. To this extent, an important open scholarly ecosystem has emerged between open repositories and CORE — and as an institution that has long delivered open repositories for research works, research data, open educational resources, and for scholarly theses, we are keen to support CORE’s ongoing work, not just for the University of Glasgow, but for the global scholarly community.
Professor Petr Knoth, CORE founder and team lead added;
Since the introduction of the CORE membership program, which is a vital component of CORE’s long term sustainability plans, we are delighted that many institutions have made a commitment to support us in our ongoing mission to make scholarly content available to all. We are delighted today to welcome the University of Glasgow as a sustaining member and are extremely grateful to them for their support.
You can read more details about CORE Membership for data providers here:
Not a data provider? – You can still show your support for CORE by becoming a sponsor!