ODC-By licenced datasets

• You can use these datasets for any commercial or non-commercial purposes in line with the ODC-By licence.
• You need to acknowledge the use of CORE as described.

Other datasets and the API

While you need to obtain a licence to use other CORE datasets as well as the CORE API, many of our users are eligible for a free licence.

However, you should contact us, irrespective of any potential free licence eligibility as described below, if you are developing or intending to develop a product, service or software using CORE data which:

• might be monetised now or in the future OR
• is expected to serve only a restricted group of beneficiaries (e.g. only your own organisation) OR
• is intended for the benefit of everyone but related to the functionality provided by one of CORE’s existing services, such as but not limited to an API, a recommender system, search, discovery system or analytical dashboard.

Free licence eligibility

If your use of CORE data does not fall under any of the categories mentioned in the above points 1-3 AND you are either an individual or a public research organisation, then you might be eligible for a free licence.

Individuals

If you are an individual, you can use CORE data freely if:

• You are conducting work in your own personal capacity AND
• You will acknowledge the use of CORE as described.

Public research organisations

If you are working for a public research organisation (e.g. a university):

You can use CORE data freely if:

• You are pursuing research on CORE data with the objective of producing a research paper or a publicly available report AND
• You will acknowledge the use of CORE as described.

If you are intending to use CORE as part of a research project(s) then, unless you are a Supporting or a Sustaining Member, you should contact us to obtain a licence. Depending on the circumstances, we will assess if you might be eligible for a free licence.

CORE Supporting and Sustaining members

Academic institutions who are CORE Supporting and Sustaining members receive automatically a free non-commercial licence to the CORE API for any internal purposes for all of their staff and students as part of CORE Membership. CORE Sustaining members receive automatically a free non-commercial licence to the CORE API for any internal purposes for all of their staff and students as part of CORE Membership.

Authorisation for use of your data

You authorise us to use the logo of your organisation and/or project on our website and to mention our support to you in public communication.

We reserve the right to withdraw our approval for use of CORE data at any time by giving you a 30-day notice.