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Description
CORE offers seamless, unrestricted access to millions of research papers. CORE hosts the world’s largest collection of open access full texts, which are used by researchers, libraries, software developers, funders and many more. CORE's aggregated content comes from thousands of institutional and subject repositories as well as journals and covers all research disciplines. In January 2019, CORE has hit the mark of 10 million monthly active users (10.41 million users) making core.ac.uk a top 6k website globally by usage according to the independent Alexa Rank and one of the most world's most widely used Open Access platforms. In this talk, Petr will present the CORE service, discuss current challenges in harvesting content from open repositories and share his experience of building value-added services for the society on top of open content.
