UK’s First Open Access Full-Text Search Engine to Aid Research

From JISC:

Open access research is now more accessible as JISC has developed a new search engine to help academics, students and the general public navigate papers held in the UK’s open access repositories.
JISC has funded the Open University’s Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) to create an innovative new search facility which searches not just the abstract but the full text of the article.
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Uusing the COnnecting Repositories tool or CORE, people can search the full text of items held in all 142 approved Open Access repositories.
“UK repositories contain a wealth of high quality research papers. This service should help make it easier for researchers to discover and explore this content. CORE is an exciting demonstration of how JISC’s investment in emerging semantic technologies is being harnessed to benefit researchers.”
Once they’ve found what they’re looking for, the CORE system stores these downloads, so that people can still get access to the papers they have found useful even if the original repository is offline.

Read the Complete Announcement
Direct to CORE Search Engine
See Also: Learn More About the CORE Project
See Also: Direct to OpenDOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories)

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