Reflections from Tokyo: CORE at the COAR 2025 Annual Meeting

The COAR Annual Conference 2025, held in Tokyo from 12–14 May, brought together repository experts, open science advocates, and infrastructure leaders from across the globe. Representing CORE was Professor Petr Knoth, who contributed to three sessions throughout the event, each addressing urgent and emerging questions around artificial intelligence, machine access, and repository infrastructure.

This blog captures the key moments from CORE’s participation at COAR 2025, touching on discussions about responsible machine behaviour, the current state of UK repositories, and the transformative potential of AI in scholarly communication. read more...

CORE at the CHIST-ERA Projects Seminar 2025: Turning Research Software into Reusable Knowledge

Professor Petr Knoth was selected by the CHIST-ERA organisers as one of four Open Science panellists in the first part of the Seminar. The other panelists included David Camacho (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Project MARTINI & Open Science Ambassador), Sabine Kraml (Université Grenoble Alpes, Project OpenMAPP & Open Science Ambassador), and Joanna Watt (EPSRC, UKRI, Research Funding Agency representative). The panel discussed the main challenges and gaps in Open Science. Among these, Professor Knoth particularly highlighted: read more...

CORE at Open Repositories 2025: Unlocking Insights and Empowering Open Access

CORE will be contributing seven accepted submissions to the 20th International Conference on Open Repositories (OR2025), taking place in Chicago, Illinois, USA, from 15–18 June 2025. These presentations highlight ongoing efforts to enhance open access, improve research discoverability, and address key challenges in the open repositories community.

From managing machine access in the era of generative AI to improving research classification and repository interoperability, each submission provides valuable insights for repository managers, academic institutions, and the wider open access ecosystem. read more...

CORE Successfully Completes the USRN Discovery Pilot Project, Enhancing Repository Discoverability in the United States

A significant milestone has been reached: CORE’s pilot project with the USRN has concluded, delivering impressive outcomes, our pilot project with the United States Repository Network (USRN), a collaborative initiative between CORE, SPARC, Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and AntLeaf. This pilot, which commenced in 2023, focused on assessing and increasing the discoverability and promoting good practices of U.S. repositories, a crucial step towards building a robust and interoperable national research infrastructure. read more...

Introducing the SDG Classification Module for the CORE Dashboard

Figure 1: SDG Classification in the CORE Dashboard

A Novel Tool for SDG Research Classification

We are pleased to announce the launch of the UN SDG Classification Module for the CORE Dashboard, a purpose-driven tool designed to streamline and automate the process of classifying academic research according to these goals. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are 17 global objectives adopted in 2015 to address key challenges such as poverty, inequality, and environmental sustainability. They aim to promote inclusive development, economic growth, and environmental protection, with the overarching goal of ensuring no one is left behind by 2030. Each goal includes specific targets to guide global action towards a more sustainable and equitable future. read more...

CORE welcomes University of Glasgow as a sustaining member

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. read more...

CORE runner-up at Open University Research Excellence Awards 2022

CORE was introduced at the very beginning of the OU Research Excellence Awards ceremony as one of the most used services the OU has ever created.

The annual OU Research Excellence Awards highlight the diverse research undertaken at the OU and recognise the impact that this research has for the economy, the environment, and society as a whole. More than 250 Open University (OU) staff, students, funders and partners came together in London on the 22nd September for this year’s awards.

CORE was announced as a runner-up in the category Best External Collaboration and Knowledge Exchange.

We are extremely pleased that the CORE team was announced as runner-up in the highly-contested ‘Best External Collaboration and Knowledge Exchange Award’ for its knowledge exchange activities with a diverse range of external partners spanning from innovators, AI technology companies, digital library providers, plagiarism detection providers, academic social networks, funders and others, including its over decade long partnership with Jisc, the digital solutions provider for UK education and research. CORE received a small financial award to support research activities from the OU in recognition of this achievement. read more...

CORE Membership – launching soon!

CORE (core.ac.uk), a not-for-profit service delivered by The Open University in partnership with Jisc, has been serving the scholarly community since 2011 and in that time has experienced phenomenal growth in every way. CORE collates Open Access research from over 10,500 data providers across the world and is now the largest collection of open access research literature. Over 30 million users each month access CORE, either via search or one of our services. We have also worked hard to develop services for our data providers and support them with tools to help better manage the content in their repositories, including improving discoverability, registering unique persistent identifiers, enriching content with data such as missing DOIs and helping monitor that their content remains compliant with Open Access policies and mandates. read more...

CORE update for January to March 2022

The first quarter of the new year was very productive for the CORE team with a number of new releases.

First, we have been working hard on improving the user interface and experience of the website and its performance on technical, visual communication and usability levels. In January, we released a new homepage and redesigned the CORE services page.

More about it can be found on the Jisc Research blog.

ON-MERRIT project has been featured in Nature

We are proud to announce that the work in our EU-funded project ON-MERRIT that aims to analyse and deliver a set of evidence-based recommendations for science policies, indicators, and incentives, which could address and mitigate cumulative (dis)advantages in Open Science has been mentioned in a Nature news article.

The work of the Open University, which is a partner in this project, focuses on the investigation of the role of Open Science in promotion and tenure policies, practices, and incentives within academia. At the OU, the project is led by the Big Scientific Data and Text Analytics Group (BSDTAg) with Dr. Petr Knoth (PI) supported by Dr. Nancy Pontika, David Pride, and Matteo Cancellieri. read more...