October 2025

We Are Open Access And We’re Reclaiming Knowledge Together

This International Open Access Week, the global research community is asking a vital question: Who owns our knowledge?

At CORE (COnnecting REpositories), our answer is clear and unapologetic:
We all do.

For over a decade, CORE has stood at the forefront of the open access movement, not as a passive service, but as an active builder of open scholarly infrastructure that enables research ideas to be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) in a free, visible, and inclusive manner. We don’t just support open access. We are open access. read more...

Co-Designing the Next 15 Years: Highlights from CORE’s Board of Supporters Meeting

Twice each year, CORE’s Board of Supporters (BoS) meeting brings together our members, partners, and collaborators to exchange ideas, share progress, and shape the priorities that guide our development. The October 2025 meeting marked yet another successful, well-attended session and the second of two such gatherings this year. It served as a powerful reminder of how community governance has been central to CORE’s growth and sustainability, and celebrated our 15th anniversary.

Over the years, CORE has evolved from a national repository service to one of the world’s leading open scholarly infrastructures. This success is rooted in the principles of openness, co-design, and shared responsibility, values we continue to uphold through the Board of Supporters. read more...

CORE Founder to Present at Yale University CS Talk Series

We’re pleased to share that Professor Petr Knoth, Founder and Head of CORE (core.ac.uk) and Professor of Data Science at The Open University’s Knowledge Media Institute, will be giving a Computer Science Talk at Yale University on 13 October 2025.

In his talk, titled “COnnecting REpositories (CORE) an open scholarly infrastructure by researchers for researchers,”Petr will introduce CORE’s role in advancing global open scholarship. He will highlight how CORE supports discoverability, interoperability, and machine access to research outputs, while also showcasing innovations from the Big Scientific Data and Text Analytics Group (BSDTAG) including CORE-GPT, SDG: Classify, and SoFAIR. read more...

Discovering History, Powered by CORE

Every research article, thesis, and working paper, accessible to anyone, anywhere. That’s the reality CORE has been building for 15 years, making knowledge discoverable and usable for students, educators, researchers, and curious minds across the globe.

“It’s extraordinary to witness how CORE (COnnecting REpositories) has become a resource that can be embedded into new innovative applications that can benefit from access to reliable research information,” says Petr Knoth, Head of CORE. read more...