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CORECORE
CORE is an aggregator of OA repositories, harvesting research papers from data providers from all over the world, including institutional and subject repositories, open access and hybrid journal publishers. It contains 186,648,638 open access articles, from thousands and over tens of thousands of journals, collected from 9,980 data providers around the world.
Overview
| Content type | License / subscription | Available for Automated search | Integrated with Available Updates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research output | Yes (API Key) | No | No |
Set up online source
Go to Administrator > Research outputs > Online sources > CORE
| Setting | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Enabled | Toggles it available for users or not. | |
| CORE API key |
The API key used to authenticate with CORE.
|
Go to https://core.ac.uk/services/api#what-is-included/ in order to register for a key. |
CORE to Pure type mapping
Everything from CORE is mapped to Contribution to Journal > Journal Article in Pure.
CORE to Pure data mapping
Table with mapping of fields to Pure
| CORE field | Pure field |
|---|---|
| id | Source ID |
| authors | Contributors |
| contributors | Not currently used |
| datePublished | Publication status |
| description | Abstract |
| fulltext | Not currently used |
| identifiers | Not currently used (This is mostly OAI identifies not usable by Pure) |
| journals | Journal |
| journals.title |
Journal title This is fetched by querying another CORE endpoint using the journal identifier. https://core.ac.uk:443/api-v2/journals/get/[identifier] |
| journal.identifiers | Journal print ISSN |
| languagee | Original language |
| publisher | Journal publisher |
| relations | Not currently used (Seems to links to various sites) |
| repositories | Not currently used (Information about what repository it was fetched from) |
| repositoryDocument | Not currently used (Information about what repository it was fetched from) |
| similarities | Not currently used (Links to similar articles) |
| subjects | Mixed bag of keywords including Peer Reviewed & Type |
| title | Title |
| topics | Keywords |
| types | Not currently used. Everything is mapped to contribution to article. |
| year | Not currently used (datePublished used in stead) |
| fulltextUrls | Not currently used (DownloadUrl used instead) |
| rawRecordXml |
We use this for OpenAccess and License information using: https://guidelines.openaire.eu/en/latest/literature/field_accesslevel.html for OA https://guidelines.openaire.eu/en/latest/literature/field_embargoenddate.html for Embargo date https://guidelines.openaire.eu/en/latest/literature/field_licensecondition.html for License |
| fulltextIdentifier | Not currently used (DownloadUrl used instead) |
| doi | DOI |
| downloadUrl | Electronic Version File |
External links
Site: https://core.ac.uk/
Full list of data providers: https://core.ac.uk/data/providers/
API: https://core.ac.uk/services/api/
Example response: core_examples.json
Published at July 10, 2025