Project: CORE

<p>The world’s largest collection of open access research papers</p>

CORE partners with Naver, South Korea’s No 1 search engine

CORE, the world’s largest aggregator of open access scientific content, and Naver, South Korea’s number one search solution, have entered into a collaboration that will see CORE’s content being made available to 42 millions Naver users.  As part of the collaboration, Naver ingests data collected by CORE to enrich its Naver Academic search system with millions of open…

CORE mentioned in a Nature article on AI technology for scientific literature

CORE has received a mention in a Nature article titled: “How AI technology can tame the scientific literature.” The article discusses how Artificial Intelligence (AI) assists researchers, and in general those who are in need of scientific information, with discovering new knowledge from the vast amounts of available scientific literature.   It is estimated that…

KMi researchers, David Pride and Petr Knoth, receive best paper award at TPDL2018

The best paper award at the 22nd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2018) went to the paper authored by David Pride and Petr Knoth titled “Peer review and citation data in predicting university rankings, a large-scale analysis.” The paper conducted the largest analysis of REF2014 data so far (data of…

CORE, a KMi service, partners with ProQuest

The CORE service is working in partnership with ProQuest to deliver more content within their library discovery services (Ex Libris Primo and Ex Libris Summon).  What does this mean for the end user?  This means that search results will bring back more relevant content from OA repositories worldwide in addition to the existing library collection records.  The…

KMi PhD student kicks off new Jisc blog on Open Metrics

A new blog launched yesterday by Jisc focuses on their Open Metrics project which aims to support the development of new research metrics. Following the publication of The Metric Tide report in 2015 there is increasing awareness within the sector of a need for new research evaluation metrics that move beyond the limitations of traditional…

KMi researcher visits Ethiopia and participates in an Open Science training session

EIFL’s invitation to KMi’s CORE project to take part in a workshop for researchers from developing countries pays dividends for participants and for CORE. In June 2017, EIFL invited the global open access full text aggregator CORE to take part in an Open Science train-the-trainer course for universities and research institutions in EIFL partner countries….

CORE organised and presented two workshops for the OpenMinTeD project

  During 25 – 27 October OpenMinTeD participated in the FORCE2017 Research Communication and e-Scholarship conference that brings together a diverse group of people interested in changing the way in which scholarly and scientific information is communicated and shared.   On Friday October 27th the OpenMinTeD partners held two workshops, one on “How to improve…

WOSP2017 – Touchdown Toronto

Since 2012, members of KMi’s CORE team, headed by Petr Knoth, have orchestrated the WOSP (Workshop On mining Scientific Publications) held each year as a part of JCDL (Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. Previously held in locations as diverse as London and Indianapolis, this year the 6th annual international WOSP workshop took place at the…