Gareth Malcolm
Our partnership with CORE will provide Turnitin with vast amounts of metadata and full texts that we can utilise in our plagiarism detection software.
A comprehensive bibliographic database of the world’s scholarly literature
The world’s largest collection of open access research papers
Machine access to our vast unique full text corpus
A comprehensive bibliographic database of the world’s scholarly literature
The world’s largest collection of open access research papers
Machine access to our vast unique full text corpus
A comprehensive bibliographic database of the world’s scholarly literature
CORE features
Indexing the world’s repositories
We are a not-for-profit community-governed open scholarly infrastructure serving the global network of repositories and journals
Comprehensive data coverage
We provide both metadata and full text access to our comprehensive collection through our APIs and Datasets
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An open scholarly infrastructure for researchers by researchers|
Committed to the POSI
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.
Who we serve?
20 million monthly active usersCompanies
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
In memoriamFunders
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
CORE’s Distinctive Characteristics
CORE is an open scholarly infrastructure service aligned with the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI). Beyond this shared foundation, CORE is defined by a set of distinctive characteristics that shape how it is built, governed, and operated.
Our services
Guidance for Open Access compliance monitoring in REF 2029
This document provides UK Higher Education Institutions with best practice technical guidelines for exposing repository metadata to support open access compliance monitoring with respect to the UK REF 2029 OA policy.
Companies using CORE
Academic institution using CORE
Kathleen Shearer
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.
Partner projects
Burton Davis
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].
