On 25 September 2025, CORE was invited by the UK Council of Open Research and Repositories (UKCORR) to present a webinar for their members, titled “From Principles to Practice: Making Repository Content Discoverable with the CORE Data Provider’s Guide.” The session focused on one of the most pressing challenges for repository managers, namely ensuring that their content is not just indexed but is also visible, accessible, and interoperable across the global scholarly ecosystem. The webinar introduced the CORE Data Provider’s Guide, a structured, three-layered framework covering best-practice in three distinct areas; repository configuration, metadata configuration, and full-text configuration.
Month: September 2025
Sustaining Open Infrastructure: How Funding Mechanisms Safeguard Open Access
Across the globe, higher education institutions are navigating intense financial pressures. Rising inflation, frozen tuition fees, and the increasing costs of digital services are stretching budgets thin. For repository managers and librarians, these pressures often translate into tough decisions about which services to keep and which to cut. In this context, open access infrastructure like CORE (COnnecting REpositories) can sometimes appear to be a “nice-to-have” rather than a necessity. But in reality, services like CORE are not luxuries; they are essential infrastructure that keeps research visible, discoverable, and compliant.
OCLC expands global partnerships with CORE sponsorship agreement
OCLC has announced a sponsorship agreement with CORE (COnnecting REpositories), expanding OCLC’s commitment to supporting open access research infrastructure worldwide. This partnership builds on OCLC’s recent agreements with organizations including the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), and the European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations (EBLIDA).
CORE is a not-for-profit service that provides access to millions of open access research papers in their comprehensive database. The service supports libraries, researchers, and institutions in discovering and accessing scholarly content.