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SoFAIR final webinar

The final SoFAIR webinar, held online on 11 December 2025, presented the goals, methodology, and outcomes of the SoFAIR project (Making Software FAIR: A machine-assisted workflow for the research software lifecycle). SoFAIR is a two-year CHIST-ERA funded project, led by The Open University, and involving six partners across four countries.

The SoFAIR project partners

The project’s overarching goal is addressing persistent challenges in research software discoverability, attribution, and long-term preservation. Research software is frequently mentioned only implicitly in scholarly articles, preventing it from becoming a first-class, FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) research object. read more...

Webinar Series Recap: Becoming a Professional User of the CORE Dashboard

On 3 December 2025, CORE (COnnecting REpositories) hosted the latest live training session in our webinar series, Become a Professional User of the CORE Dashboard. We extend our sincere thanks to the many participants who joined us from across Europe, Africa, the United States and beyond. The high level of attendance and engagement was truly encouraging, bringing together a diverse group of repository managers, research support teams, journal editors and open access practitioners.

The session, led by Prof. Petr Knoth (Founder & Head of CORE) and Catherine Kuliavets (Community & Relationship Manager), offered a comprehensive walkthrough of the Dashboard. We explored critical features designed to support the research lifecycle, including discoverability tools, indexing monitoring, metadata validation, and our evolving suite of Open Access and FAIR compliance modules. read more...

PRESS RELEASE

CORE Announces Strategic Support for the Creation of the Ukrainian open repositories community

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom – 27 November 2025

CORE is pleased to announce its formal support for the creation of the Ukrainian open repositories community, a national initiative led by the Scientific and Technical Library of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. This partnership marks an important milestone in strengthening Ukraine’s open research environment during a time of unprecedented national challenge. read more...

SoFAIR study paper accepted to JCDL2025

The Open University is the project coordinator for the 2-year CHIST-ERA funded SoFAIR project which aims to make research software a first-class, FAIR research object (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable).

We are excited to share that our paper, “Identifying and Classifying Software Mentions in Full-Text Scholarly Documents,” has been accepted for presentation at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2025). This work reports the first systematic evaluation of large language models (LLMs) for detecting and classifying software mentions in research papers. Using benchmark datasets, SoftCite, SoMeSci, and the new SoFAIR corpus the study compares different prompting and retrieval strategies, showing that LLM-based approaches substantially outperform previous rule-based and conventional NLP methods, particularly across a multi-disciplinary corpus. The work demonstrates the potential for LLMs to move software-mention detection from a research challenge toward a deployable capability, capable of extracting software names, versions, and publishers. read more...

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...

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. read more...

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. read more...