Open-access publishing: CORE melds UK repositories

"A search engine that allows researchers to search all of the papers held in the UK's 142 open-access repositories has been developed by The Open University. Over the past decade, many institutions have set up their own open-access repositories, but until now there was no way to search all 142 of them simultaneously. The Jisc-funded application, known as the Connecting Repositories tool, or CORE, also give users the opportunity to search the text of the entire article, rather than just the abstract. Andrew McGregor, Jisc programme manager for digital infrastructure, said: "UK repositories contain a wealth of high-quality research papers. This service should help to make it easier for researchers to discover and explore this content." ..."