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Title: CORE: A Global Aggregation Service for Open Access Papers

Journal Article · · Scientific Data (Online)
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  1. Open University, Milton Keynes (United Kingdom)
  2. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Open University, Milton Keynes (United Kingdom)
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This paper introduces CORE, a widely used scholarly service, which provides access to the world’s largest collection of open access research publications, acquired from a global network of repositories and journals. CORE was created with the goal of enabling text and data mining of scientific literature and thus supporting scientific discovery, but it is now used in a wide range of use cases within higher education, industry, not-for-profit organisations, as well as by the general public. Through the provided services, CORE powers innovative use cases, such as plagiarism detection, in market-leading third-party organisations. CORE has played a pivotal role in the global move towards universal open access by making scientific knowledge more easily and freely discoverable. In this paper, we describe CORE’s continuously growing dataset and the motivation behind its creation, present the challenges associated with systematically gathering research papers from thousands of data providers worldwide at scale, and introduce the novel solutions that were developed to overcome these challenges. The paper then provides an in-depth discussion of the services and tools built on top of the aggregated data and finally examines several use cases that have leveraged the CORE dataset and services.

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE; European Commission (EC)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC05-00OR22725
OSTI ID:
2471483
Journal Information:
Scientific Data (Online), Journal Name: Scientific Data (Online) Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 10; ISSN 2052-4463
Publisher:
Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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