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Cost-free PIDs for your repository

OAI identifiers are unique identifiers minted cost-free by repositories. Ensure that your repository is correctly configured, enabling the CORE OAI Resolver to redirect your identifiers to your repository landing pages.

OAI IDs provide a cost-free option for assigning Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) to your repository records. Learn more.

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Who we serve?

20 million monthly active users
  • Companies

    Enabling others to create new tools and innovate using a global comprehensive collection of research papers.

    Companies

    “Our partnership with CORE will provide Turnitin with vast amounts of metadata and full texts that we can ...” Show more

    Gareth Malcolm, Content Partner Manager at Turnitin
  • Academic institutions

    Making research more discoverable, improving metadata quality, helping to meet and monitor open access compliance.

    Academic institutions

    “CORE’s role in providing a unified search of repository content is a great tool for the researcher and ex...” Show more

    Nicola Dowson, Library Services Manager at Open University
  • Researchers & general public

    Tools to find, discover and explore the wealth of open access research. Free for everyone, forever.

    Researchers & general public

    “With millions of research papers available across thousands of different systems, CORE provides an invalu...” Show more

    Jon Tennant, Rogue Paleontologist and Founder of the Open Science MOOC
    In memoriam
  • Funders

    Helping funders to analyse, audit and monitor open research and accelerate towards open science.

    Funders

    “Aggregation plays an increasingly essential role in maximising the long-term benefits of open access, hel...” Show more

    Ben Johnson, Research Policy Adviser at Research England

Our services

Companies using CORE

Gareth Malcolm

Gareth Malcolm

Content Partner Manager at Turnitin

Our partnership with CORE will provide Turnitin with vast amounts of metadata and full texts that we can utilise in our plagiarism detection software.

Academic institution using CORE

Kathleen Shearer

Kathleen Shearer

Executive Director of the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)

CORE has significantly assisted the academic institutions participating in our global network with their key mission, which is their scientific content exposure. In addition, CORE has helped our content administrators to showcase the real benefits of repositories via its added value services.

Partner projects

Ben Johnson

Ben Johnson

Research Policy Adviser

Aggregation plays an increasingly essential role in maximising the long-term benefits of open access, helping to turn the promise of a 'research commons' into a reality. The aggregation services that CORE provides therefore make a very valuable contribution to the evolving open access environment in the UK.