11 November 2019
A reminder that the November free UKSG webinar – Better together: building services for public good on top of content from the global network of open repositories – will take place on Tuesday 19 November 2019 at 1400 GMT.
Speakers:
- Petr Knoth, Senior Research Fellow in Text and Data Mining, CORE.
- Nancy Pontika, Open Access Aggregation Officer, CORE
CORE hosts the world’s largest collection of open access full texts, offering seamless, unrestricted access to research for citizens, researchers, libraries, software developers, funders and others. CORE’s aggregated content comes from thousands of institutional and subject repositories as well as journals and covers all research disciplines.
In this talk, Petr and Nancy will explain the role of CORE in the open science ecosystem. They will introduce the solutions CORE offers for improving the delivery of research literature, including tools for discovering freely available copies of papers that might be behind publishers’ paywalls as well as a recommender system for open access literature. The use of CORE data to monitor compliance with open access policies has also recently received attention. The presenters will then reflect on the challenges in the sector and share their experience of building value-added services for the society on top of open content offered by libraries and their affiliated institutional repositories and open access journals.
Registration
UKSG webinars are free and open to members and non-members of UKSG alike and registration is now open. Those interested but unable to join the live event should register as a recording will be made available to all who register. Anyone with particular accessibility needs should contact samira@uksg.org.