Tag: open repositories

CORE update for October to December 2019

During the last quarter of 2019 CORE released new updates for two of its services, CORE Reader and CORE Discovery, and has initiated new collaborations, for example with LA Referencia. In addition, CORE was singled out for its contributions and was awarded for its outstanding impact of research on society and prosperity. Details about these and more news can be found below.

CORE won an Outstanding Impact of Research on Society and Prosperity Award

During the Research Excellence Awards 2019 Ceremony dedicated to the 50th anniversary of The Open University, CORE was presented with the award for “Outstanding Impact of Research on Society and Prosperity Award”. This important award reflects the clear value CORE represents to its millions of users as the largest repository of Open Access scientific knowledge. read more...

CORE update for July to September 2019

CORE releases CORE Discovery in Mozilla and Opera browsers

CORE Discovery, a browser extension that offers one-click access to free copies of research papers whenever you might hit a paywall, is now published in Mozilla and Opera Stores. The plug in was originally released as a Google Chrome extension.

CORE presents its full texts growth and introduces eduTDM at Open Science Fair 2019

CORE was active at the Open Science Fair 2019, an international event for all topics related to Open Science. CORE had two posters at this event; a general to the CORE service poster, which updated the community about the full text growth and wide usage of the CORE services, and a second one about the eduTDM. read more...

CORE update for April to June 2019

CORE releases CORE Discovery tool

CORE has released a BETA version of the CORE Discovery tool, which offers a one-click access to free copies of research papers whenever you might hit a paywall. 

CORE Discovery

Our free CORE Discovery service provides you with:

  • Highest coverage of freely available content. Our tests have shown CORE Discovery finding more free content than any other discovery system.
  • Free service for researchers by researchers. CORE Discovery is the only free content discovery extension developed by researchers for researchers. There is no major publisher or enterprise controlling and profiting from your usage data.
  • Best grip on open repository content. Due to CORE being a leader in harvesting open access literature, CORE Discovery has the best grip on open content from open repositories as opposed to other services that disproportionately focus only on content indexed in major commercial databases.
  • Repository integration and discovering documents without a DOI. The only service offering seamless and free integration into repositories. CORE Discovery is also the only discovery system that can locate scientific content even for items with an unknown DOI or which do not have a DOI.

The tool is available as:

  • A browser extension for researchers and anyone interested in reading scientific documents
  • Plugin for repositories, enriching metadata only pages in repositories with links to freely available copies of the paper
  • API for developers and third party services

If you are interested in the CORE Discovery plugin do get in touch. 

CORE receives Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award

Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award The CORE team has also won the Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award at JCDL 2019, one of the most highly recognised digital libraries conference in the world, for our work on analysing how soon authors deposit into repositories, which was driven by CORE data. A blog post about this is already available.
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CORE highly visible at Open Repositories 2019 conference

CORE participated at the Open Repositories conference (10 – 13 June 2019), which took place in Hamburg, Germany. This year’s conference theme was “All the user needs”, where CORE received much attention and participated actively with 5 presentations. 

Assessing Compliance with the UK REF 2021 Open Access Policy

The recent increase in Open Access (OA) policies has brought forth important questions concerning the effect these policies have on the practice of publishing Open Access. In particular, is there evidence to support that mandating OA increases the proportion of OA outputs (in other words, do authors comply with relevant policies)? Furthermore, does mandating OA reduce the time from acceptance to the public availability of research outputs, and can compliance with OA mandates be effectively tracked? This work studies compliance with the UK REF 2021 Open Access policy. We use data from CrossRef and from CORE to create a dataset containing 1.6 million publications. We show that after the introduction of the UK OA policy, the proportion of OA research outputs in the UK has increased significantly, and the time lag between the acceptance of a publication and its Open Access availability has decreased, although there are significant differences in compliance between different repositories. We have developed a tool that can be used to assess publications’ compliance with the policy based on a list of DOIs. read more...

CORE will be at the Open Repositories 2016

* Post updated on June 20th and June 23rd with links to presentations.

In this year’s Open Repositories 2016, an international conference addressed to the scholarly communications community with a focus on repositories, open access, open data and open science, CORE had 6 items accepted; 1 Paper, 1 Workshop, 1 Repository Rave presentation, 1 Poster and 2 showcases in the Developer Track and Ideas Challenge. The titles and summaries of our accepted proposals are:

Paper: Exploring Semantometrics: full text-based research evaluation for open repositories / Knoth, Petr; Herrmannova, Drahomira
Over the recent years, there has been a growing interest in developing new scientometric measures that could go beyond the traditional citation-based bibliometric measures. This interest is motivated on one side by the wider availability or even emergence of new information evidencing research performance, such as article downloads, views and twitter mentions, and on the other side by the continued frustrations and problems surrounding the application of citation-based metrics to evaluate research performance in practice. Semantometrics are a new class of research evaluation metrics which build on the premise that full text is needed to assess the value of a publication. This talk will present the results of an investigation into the properties of the semantometric contribution measure (Knoth & Herrmannova, 2014). We will provide a comparative evaluation of the contribution measure with traditional bibliometric measures based on citation counting. Our analysis also focuses on the potential application of semantometric measures in large databases of research papers.

Presentation slides

Workshop: Mining Repositories: How to assist the research and academic community in their text and data mining needs – a workshop / Pontika, Nancy; Knoth, Petr; van Dijke, Hege; Anastasiou, Lucas
Over the past five years there has been a significant interest in text and data mining (TDM) practices from the European Union (EU). In scholarly communication, TDM is already a developed practice in some scientific fields, for example, in the life sciences and computer science. Nonetheless, after a call that we sent out to the United Kingdom Council of Research Repositories (UKCoRR) list serve, we discovered that there was a limited number of TDM projects that had as their primary source of information the repositories’ collections. To address this challenge, the EU-funded project OpenMinTeD looks to enable the creation of an infrastructure that fosters and facilitates the use of TDM technologies in the scientific publications field, targeting both domain users and TDM experts. In this context we propose a three hour workshop, where we will introduce the topic of TDM to the repositories community, explore how the OpenMinTed project aims to assist with the adoption of TDM practices and present on existing TDM projects that were conducted using text and data from repositories.

Workshop blog post

Repository Rave presentation: Implementation of the RIOXX metadata guidelines in the UK’s repositories through a harvesting service / Cancellieri, Matteo; Pontika, Nancy
The COnnecting REpositories (CORE) project aims to aggregate content from open access repositories and journals and distribute this content in one central end point facilitating the open access dissemination of the scientific research. In an effort to improve the quality and transparency of the aggregation process of the open access content and create a two-way collaboration between the CORE project and the providers of this content, CORE has created the Repositories Dashboard. The RIOXX Metadata application profile aims to assist repository managers in tracking compliance with the Research Councils UK Policy on Open Access and Guidance. In this Repositories Rave session we will present how CORE is implementing the RIOXX metadata in the CORE Dashboard.

Presentation slides

Poster: Intergration of IRUS-UK statistics in the CORE Repositories Dashboard/ Pearce, Samuel; Pontika, Nancy
The COnnecting REpositories (CORE) project aims to aggregate content from open access repositories and journals, and distribute this content in one central point facilitating the open access dissemination of the scientific research. Institutional Repository Usage Statistics UK (IRUS-UK) is a Jisc-funded project that serves as a national repository usage statistics aggregation service, which aims to provide article download statistics from UK repositories. At CORE, we wanted to present the information regarding the manuscripts’ downloads to repository managers and therefore, we have integrated into the CORE Repositories Dashboard. In this poster we will present a) the submission process of the IRUS-UK statistics and b) how CORE retrieves these statistics and displays them to the UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).

Poster link

Developer Track and Ideas Challenge:

Oxford vs Cambridge Contest: Collecting Open Research Evaluation Metrics for University Ranking read more...