The world’s largest collection of open access research papers A comprehensive bibliographic database of the world’s scholarly literature Explore CORE data The world’s largest collection of open access research papers Machine access to our vast unique full text corpus Explore Services see our data statistic A comprehensive bibliographic database of the world’s scholarly literature Explore CORE data The world’s largest collection of open access research papers Machine access to our vast unique full text corpus Explore Services see our data statistic A comprehensive bibliographic database of the world’s scholarly literature Explore CORE data 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 data Comprehensive data coverage We provide both metadata and full text access to our comprehensive collection through our APIs and Datasets Powerful services We create powerful services for researchers, universities, and industry Cutting-edge solutions We research and develop innovative data-driven and AI solutions Join CORE An open scholarly infrastructure for researchers by researchers Committed to the POSI Become a data provider Become a member Explore our services 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. Try our OAI resolver 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 In memoriam 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 Find out more 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. go to the CHARACTERISTICS 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. 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. CORE Recommendations for REF2029 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. Show all 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. Show all 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. [ about Microsoft’s support for CORE]. Show all