CORE: An Open Access Gateway to Research Publications

Use the link to access the full text article written by Petr Knoth and Zdenek Zdrahal of the Knowledge Media Institute.  “Abstract—The last 10 years have seen a massive increase in the amounts of Open Access publications available in journals and institutional repositories. The open presence of large volumes of state-of-the-art knowledge online has the potential to provide huge savings and benefits in many fields. However, in order to fully leverage this knowledge, it is necessary to develop systems that (a) make it easy for users to discover, explore and access this knowledge at the level of individual resources, (b) explore and analyse this knowledge at the level of collections of resources and (c) provide infrastructure and access to raw data in order to lower the barriers to the research and development of systems and services on top of this knowledge. In this paper, we argue why these requirements should be satisfied and show that current systems do not meet them. Later, we present CORE (COnnecting REpositories), a large-scale Open Access aggregation system, outline its functionality and architecture. We demonstrate how it addresses the above mentioned needs and how it can be applied to the benefit of the whole ecosystem that includes institutional repositories, individuals, eResearchers, funding bodies and governments.”