CORE (COnnecting REpositories)

CORE’s global impact: A landmark achievement in KMi’s 30 years As we mark KMi’s 30th anniversary, we’re highlighting projects that have shaped research, technology, and global knowledge sharing. One of the most transformative is CORE – Connecting Repositories, launched in 2010 with a bold vision: to make the world’s research open and accessible to all. Today, CORE indexes millions of research papers from 13,000+ data providers, powering discovery tools, supporting open access policies, and enabling text and data mining across the world. What started as an experimental idea has grown into global infrastructure used by researchers, libraries, funders, and innovators everywhere. CORE embodies the spirit of The Open University; openness, inclusivity, and breaking down barriers to knowledge. Fifteen years on, it continues to drive forward the open access movement and inspire new ways of sharing and reusing research. If you want the full story, including its impact and legacy, you can read the blog post: https://lnkd.in/efZtgAAP CORE has changed how the world accesses research, and it remains one of KMi’s most influential contributions to global open knowledge. Here’s to the next chapter of openness and innovation. #OpenAccess #CORE #KMi30th #ResearchInfrastructure

We’re pleased to welcome King's College London to the global CORE community. By joining CORE, King’s College London is helping strengthen the global infrastructure that supports open research and improves the visibility and discoverability of scholarly outputs. This is what teamwork for open science looks like: institutions working together to ensure that research can be accessed, discovered and reused by researchers, innovators and communities around the world. #OpenScience #OpenAccess #ScholarlyCommunication #OpenResearch

We’re pleased to welcome Buckinghamshire New University to the global CORE (COnnecting REpositories)community. By joining CORE, Buckinghamshire New University becomes part of an international network of institutions committed to improving the visibility, discoverability and reuse of open research. Through CORE’s indexing of millions of research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide, institutions are able to ensure their work reaches a truly global audience. Open access is not only about removing barriers to knowledge – it is about strengthening collaboration, enabling innovation, and ensuring that publicly funded research can benefit society at large. We look forward to working with the team at Buckinghamshire New University and supporting their research in reaching readers, researchers and innovators around the world. #OpenAccess #OpenScience #ResearchVisibility #ScholarlyCommunication

Showing Up for a Global Network: A CORE Webinar for the Ukrainian Open Repositories Community CORE is proud to partner with The KPI Library / Бібліотека КПІ (Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute) to host a dedicated webinar for librarians, researchers, and repository managers in Ukrainian. This session is all about meeting communities where they are, sharing practical knowledge, and strengthening institutional repositories through tools that improve visibility, discoverability, metadata quality, and sustainability. What the webinar will cover: ·       What CORE is and why it’s a key infrastructure for open science ·       How libraries can increase the visibility of their repositories through indexing ·       Practical capabilities of the CORE Dashboard: statistics, metadata quality, and more ·       The role libraries play in building sustainable repository ecosystems When: 25 February 2026, 15:00 EET Where: Zoom Language: Ukrainian Join Here: https://lnkd.in/dYdwyJfm We’re grateful to our colleagues at KPI Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute for making this possible. Read more here: https://bit.ly/4ts7my6 #OpenScience #OpenAccess #Repositories #LibraryCommunity #Metadata #Indexing #CORE #GlobalInfrastructure #Ukraine

Celebrating Knowledge Media Institute’s 30th Birthday In 1995, two visionary The Open University professors; Marc Eisenstadt and Tom Vincent, were matched together by another visionary OU staff; Lady (Kitty) Chisholm who was OU’s Development Director, to create an OU institute where innovation could thrive. Their shared passion was to R&D future technologies to support OU’s students. That vision was endorsed by Sir John Daniel; OU’s Vice Chancellor at the time, who later said that “Of all the OU innovations in the 1990s, this is the one of which I’m most proud.” KMi was born out of sheer vision, ambition, and strive for the OU to lead High-tech higher education.  These pioneers understood the critical value of research-based innovation, culture, and environment. They envisioned a place where creativity, risk-taking, rapid design and prototyping, and challenging the status-quo are every day’s business. They aimed to cultivate a rare yet essential skillset: the ability to see and invent the future. Once you’ve cultivated a culture that embraces innovation; one that’s unafraid of colouring outside the lines, pushing boundaries, experimenting freely and boldly, you gain the necessary agility to redirect talent swiftly to tackle new challenges and seize new opportunities. For example, when COVID19 arrived, KMi succeeded in diverting its AI data analysis skills to develop social-proximity tracking tools, and to address the rise of false information during the pandemic. When increasing students’ retention and decreasing awarding-gaps became top priorities, KMi developed AI tools to boost affected students’ progression. When generative AI stormed the world, KMi was ready to explore it fully and develop prototypes to boost teaching delivery and students’ experience. By the time ethical concerns around AI entered public and media discourse, KMi was already leading debates on how AI is reshaping power dynamics. When Open Science came under the spotlight, KMi produced the world’s largest collection of open access research papers. As Carroll Shelby (played by Matt Damon) says in the 2019 film Ford v Ferrari: “All due respect, sir, you can’t win a race by committee.” The race of innovation in Higher-Education is on, and here’s to the next 30 years of KMi, continuing to shape the future of education and innovation at the OU and beyond. Harith Alani Director of KMi Read full article: https://lnkd.in/diFE_rMz and https://lnkd.in/dt-xHJNY #KMi30 #OpenUniversity #InnovationLeadership #AIinEducation #EdTechInnovation #OpenScience #FutureOfLearning #HigherEducationInnovation

Reminder: Our SoFAIR Webinar is happening this Thursday! Join us on 11 December at 4 PM CET for a deep dive into how the SoFAIR project is advancing the integration of research software into open scholarly infrastructures. We’ll be showcasing the new AI-assisted service for detecting, validating and archiving software mentions in research manuscripts supporting greater openness, reproducibility and software visibility across the research lifecycle. What you’ll learn: • Overview of SoFAIR’s mission and results • Live demonstration of the SoFAIR prototype • Insights from our use cases and released datasets • How SoFAIR connects with CORE’s indexing service, HAL and Software Heritage • Panel discussion with invited experts Attendance is free, but registration is required: https://lnkd.in/dhrZRt_K

SAVE THE DATE! | SoFAIR Webinar In our continued effort to bring more value to the open research community, we’re excited to share one of the many webinars coming up and this one is a particularly special session. The SoFAIR project is pushing the boundaries of how research software is identified, linked, and preserved, and we’re thrilled to spotlight their work. Join us for “Integrating research software into open scholarly infrastructures: results of the SoFAIR project.” Thursday, 11 December 2025 4 PM CET Online ⏱ Duration: 1h 15min The SoFAIR initiative is developing AI-assisted tools to extract software mentions from research manuscripts, strengthening the reusability and reproducibility of scientific work. This webinar will include a demonstration of the SoFAIR automated software detection, validation, and archival service, along with community-ready use cases and openly published research data. We’ll also explore how SoFAIR integrates with key open scholarly infrastructures, including the CORE indexing service, HAL, and Software Heritage. Agenda: • Project mission & results overview Petr Knoth ( SoFAIR PI, The Open University) • SoFAIR prototype demo David Pride (The Open University) • Overview of additional SoFAIR use cases • Panel: Research software in scholarly infrastructures • Q&A Attendance is free, but registration is required. Register here: https://lnkd.in/dhrZRt_K We look forward to seeing you there.

Join our free webinar on 3 December 2025 at 3:00 PM UK Time to learn how to: Monitor Open Access (OA) compliance Track repository performance Improve metadata quality The session includes a live demo and Q&A with the CORE team. Reserve your place today: https://lnkd.in/d7WpZy9E This session is ideal for repository managers, library teams, research office staff, and anyone looking to enhance their institution’s open access visibility.

Great to see our paper on extracting software mentions accepted to JCDL. Difficulty to find and archive research software is one of the main causes of reproducibility problems.

Our SoFAIR paper has been accepted to JCDL 2025! It’s the first systematic evaluation of LLMs for detecting software mentions in scholarly papers, moving us closer to making research software truly FAIR. Read more: https://lnkd.in/drf8vg7Z #SoFAIR #JCDL2025 #OpenScience #ResearchSoftware #FAIRprinciples #CORE