CORE
The world's largest collection of open access research papers

CORE is an open scholarly infrastructure that aggregates and provides access to millions of open access research papers from repositories worldwide. It offers services for researchers, universities, and industry including content discovery, raw data access, and repository management tools. CORE also supports open access compliance monitoring and provides cost-free persistent identifiers for repositories.
CORE aggregates metadata and full-text content from repositories globally, making it searchable and accessible via APIs and discovery services.
Researchers, universities, libraries, and industry partners working with academic literature
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- free
- Company
- CORE (Open University)
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