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About CORE
CORE (COnnecting REpositories) collects papers from repositories and journals around the world and lets you search over 452 million of them. It provides both metadata and full text, so many results can be read directly.
Beyond the search site, CORE offers APIs and datasets for machine access to its full-text corpus, which suits researchers doing text mining. It is run as a not-for-profit, community-governed open scholarly infrastructure committed to the POSI principles.
Strengths
- Very large collection of open access papers
- Full text as well as metadata
- APIs and datasets for machine access
- Run by a not-for-profit
Limitations
- Limited to open access content
- Search only; no AI summaries described in the research
Details
- Pricing
- FreeSearching is free; CORE is a not-for-profit service with additional offerings for institutions and industry.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- CORE
- Platforms
- Web
- How it runs
- Web application
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- No
- Best suited for
- Researchers looking for freely readable academic papers
- Categories
- Learning tools, AI research
- Last verified
- Added
- Sources
Alternatives to CORE
Compare allSoftware that can replace CORE for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Google Scholar
Google's free search engine for scholarly articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions.
Google Scholar covers all disciplines including paywalled work and case law, and adds alerts and author profiles, but it needs a Google account for those features.
Semantic Scholar
A free, AI-powered search engine for scientific literature covering papers from all fields of science.
Semantic Scholar indexes more than 238 million papers beyond open access, offers a public API and a browser extension, and adds the beta Semantic Reader.
The Lens
A search and analysis platform for patents and scholarly literature, with charts and collections.
The Lens searches patents alongside scholarly literature, with built-in charts and shareable collections, and some features require a subscription.
Open Knowledge Maps
A nonprofit visual search engine that builds topic maps of research literature.
Open Knowledge Maps is a nonprofit visual search engine that builds topic maps from metadata, covering datasets and software, not full text.
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Elicit
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Consensus
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Paperlib
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