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 Join CORE at The Big Migration Conference

In just 17 days, CORE will be taking part in The Big Migration Conference, a gathering of people working across repositories, libraries, and research infrastructure to shape how scholarly communication continues to evolve.

We’re looking forward to contributing two closely connected sessions that sit at the heart of what we care about at CORE: helping repositories not just participate in open science, but genuinely thrive within it.

The first session, Connecting Repositories, will be presented by Professor Petr Knoth. It offers an overview of CORE as an open scholarly infrastructure indexing millions of open access research outputs from repositories and journals around the world. Beyond the scale, the focus is on what this enables in practice from improving discoverability and reuse of research, to supporting interoperability, metadata quality, and compliance in increasingly complex research environments. It will also touch on some of the work coming out of the Big Scientific Data and Text Analytics Group, including CORE-GPT for trustworthy question answering over scholarly literature, SDG classification of research outputs, and SoFAIR, which supports reproducibility and research software management. read more...

SoFAIR 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...

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...

Making Research Software FAIR: How SoFAIR Tackles the Reproducibility Challenge

Reproducibility is one of the significant challenges of contemporary science. A landmark survey revealed that more than 70% of researchers had failed to reproduce another scientist’s experiments, and more than 50% were unable to reproduce their own (Baker, 2016).

“Single occurrences that cannot be reproduced are of no significance to science.” (Popper, 1935)

One of the less visible, but increasingly critical, factors contributing to this problem is the visibility and availability of research software. Software now underpins almost every stage of the research lifecycle from data collection and analysis to simulation, modelling, and visualisation. Yet despite its centrality, research software often remains hidden within manuscripts, mentioned fleetingly or omitted altogether. Without proper identification and registration, software is rarely linked back to the publications that introduced or used it, leaving its role in scientific discovery under-recognised and its reusability limited. 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...