Journal Article: “CORE: A Global Aggregation Service for Open Access Papers”

The article linked below was recently published by Scientific Data.

Title

CORE: A Global Aggregation Service for Open Access Papers

Authors

Petr Knoth
Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK

Drahomira Herrmannova
Matteo Cancellieri
Lucas Anastasiou
Nancy Pontika
Samuel Pearce
Bikash Gyawali
David Pride

Source

Scientific Data
Volume 10, Article number: 366 (2023)

DOI: 10.1038/s41597-023-02208-w

Abstract

This paper introduces CORE, a widely used scholarly service, which provides access to the world’s largest collection of open access research publications, acquired from a global network of repositories and journals. CORE was created with the goal of enabling text and data mining of scientific literature and thus supporting scientific discovery, but it is now used in a wide range of use cases within higher education, industry, not-for-profit organisations, as well as by the general public. Through the provided services, CORE powers innovative use cases, such as plagiarism detection, in market-leading third-party organisations. CORE has played a pivotal role in the global move towards universal open access by making scientific knowledge more easily and freely discoverable. In this paper, we describe CORE’s continuously growing dataset and the motivation behind its creation, present the challenges associated with systematically gathering research papers from thousands of data providers worldwide at scale, and introduce the novel solutions that were developed to overcome these challenges. The paper then provides an in-depth discussion of the services and tools built on top of the aggregated data and finally examines several use cases that have leveraged the CORE dataset and services.

• Direct to Full Text Article
• Direct to CORE Website
• Direct to Search CORE Database

See Also: CORE-GPT (Question Answering Using GPT-3 and the CORE Corpus of Open Access Articles)

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