CORE – Aggregating The World's Open Access Research Papers

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A comprehensive bibliographic database of the world’s scholarly literature

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The world’s largest collection of open access research papers

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Machine access to our vast unique full text corpus

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A comprehensive bibliographic database of the world’s scholarly literature

Explore CORE data

The world’s largest collection of open access research papers

Search 402M papers from around the worldSearch

Machine access to our vast unique full text corpus

Explore Servicessee our data statistic

A comprehensive bibliographic database of the world’s scholarly literature

Explore CORE data

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  Indexing the world’s repositories

  We are a not-for-profit community-governed open scholarly infrastructure serving the global network of repositories and journals

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  Comprehensive data coverage

  We provide both metadata and full text access to our comprehensive collection through our APIs and Datasets

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  Powerful services

  We create powerful services for researchers, universities, and industry

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  Cutting-edge solutions

  We research and develop innovative data-driven and AI solutions

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Cost-free PIDs for your repository

OAI identifiers are unique identifiers minted cost-free by repositories. Ensure that your repository is correctly configured, enabling the CORE OAI Resolver to redirect your identifiers to your repository landing pages.

OAI IDs provide a cost-free option for assigning Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) to your repository records. Learn more.

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Who we serve?

20 million monthly active users

• Companies

  Enabling others to create new tools and innovate using a global comprehensive collection of research papers.

  

  “Our partnership with CORE will provide Turnitin with vast amounts of metadata and full texts that we can ...” Show more

  Gareth Malcolm, Content Partner Manager at Turnitin

• Academic institutions

  Making research more discoverable, improving metadata quality, helping to meet and monitor open access compliance.

  

  “CORE’s role in providing a unified search of repository content is a great tool for the researcher and ex...” Show more

  Nicola Dowson, Library Services Manager at Open University

• Researchers & general public

  Tools to find, discover and explore the wealth of open access research. Free for everyone, forever.

  

  “With millions of research papers available across thousands of different systems, CORE provides an invalu...” Show more

  Jon Tennant, Rogue Paleontologist and Founder of the Open Science MOOC

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• Funders

  Helping funders to analyse, audit and monitor open research and accelerate towards open science.

  

  “Aggregation plays an increasingly essential role in maximising the long-term benefits of open access, hel...” Show more

  Ben Johnson, Research Policy Adviser at Research England

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Our services

Access to raw data

Create new and innovative solutions.



Content discovery

Find relevant research and make your research more visible.



Managing content

Manage how your research content is exposed to the world.

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Companies using CORE

Our partnership with CORE will provide Turnitin with vast amounts of metadata and full texts that we can utilise in our plagiarism detection software.

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Academic institution using CORE

CORE has significantly assisted the academic institutions participating in our global network with their key mission, which is their scientific content exposure. In addition, CORE has helped our content administrators to showcase the real benefits of repositories via its added value services.

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Partner projects

Microsoft is committed to increasing open access to scientific knowledge to help further research and fuel breakthroughs to address society’s greatest challenges, such as improving healthcare and the sustainability of our planet. We are proud to support CORE’s important work [as part of Microsoft’s Open Data campaign] of making more scientific scholarly content openly available, helping foster innovation, including the responsible development of Al. [read more about Microsoft’s support for CORE].

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