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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#" > <channel> <title> Comments for CORE </title> <atom:link href="https://blog.core.ac.uk/comments/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link>https://blog.core.ac.uk</link> <description></description> <lastBuildDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2024 10:53:05 +0000</lastBuildDate> <sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency> <generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1</generator> <item> <title> Comment on University of Chicago adopts CORE’s article deduplication tool by Day in Review (January 16–18) - Association of Research Libraries </title> <link>https://blog.core.ac.uk/2024/01/18/university-of-chicago-adopts-cores-article-deduplication-tool/#comment-120</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Day in Review (January 16–18) - Association of Research Libraries]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2024 21:21:55 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.core.ac.uk/?p=1668#comment-120</guid> <description><![CDATA[[…] University of Chicago Adopts CORE’s Article Deduplication Tool (CORE) […]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[[…] University of Chicago Adopts CORE’s Article Deduplication Tool (CORE) […] ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> Comment on SoFAIR: The Open University to coordinate new international project to facilitate the reproducibility of research studies by Day in Review (November 13–16) - Association of Research Libraries </title> <link>https://blog.core.ac.uk/2023/11/07/sofair-the-open-university-to-coordinate-new-international-project-to-facilitate-the-reproducibility-of-research-studies/#comment-119</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Day in Review (November 13–16) - Association of Research Libraries]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2023 20:25:59 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.core.ac.uk/?p=1609#comment-119</guid> <description><![CDATA[[…] SoFAIR: The Open University to Coordinate New International Project to Facilitate the Reproducibilit… (CORE) […]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[[…] SoFAIR: The Open University to Coordinate New International Project to Facilitate the Reproducibilit… (CORE) […] ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> Comment on CORE welcomes 10 new members by Petr Knoth </title> <link>https://blog.core.ac.uk/2023/03/02/core-welcomes-10-new-members/#comment-113</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Petr Knoth]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 02 Mar 2023 16:55:34 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.core.ac.uk/?p=1439#comment-113</guid> <description><![CDATA[In reply to <a href="https://blog.core.ac.uk/2023/03/02/core-welcomes-10-new-members/#comment-112">George Macgregor</a>. Thank you so much, George. Our team is aware that this is just the beginning of our path towards sustainability and that a lot more needs to be done in the coming months. Having said that, we are incredibly thankful for the trust of these new members in our mission and the resources that they have committed to supporting us.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[In reply to <a href="https://blog.core.ac.uk/2023/03/02/core-welcomes-10-new-members/#comment-112">George Macgregor</a>. Thank you so much, George. Our team is aware that this is just the beginning of our path towards sustainability and that a lot more needs to be done in the coming months. Having said that, we are incredibly thankful for the trust of these new members in our mission and the resources that they have committed to supporting us. ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> Comment on CORE welcomes 10 new members by George Macgregor </title> <link>https://blog.core.ac.uk/2023/03/02/core-welcomes-10-new-members/#comment-112</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[George Macgregor]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 02 Mar 2023 11:59:16 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.core.ac.uk/?p=1439#comment-112</guid> <description><![CDATA[This is indeed encouraging news, and it is terrific to see institutions recognise the importance of open scholarly infrastructure, even if Jisc do not. I am hopeful our institution will be joining the membership scheme soon. Watch this space! :-)]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[This is indeed encouraging news, and it is terrific to see institutions recognise the importance of open scholarly infrastructure, even if Jisc do not. I am hopeful our institution will be joining the membership scheme soon. Watch this space! 🙂 ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> Comment on CORE to become an independent Open Access service from August 2023 by Niklas Zimmer </title> <link>https://blog.core.ac.uk/2022/11/07/1419/#comment-111</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Niklas Zimmer]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2022 08:15:06 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.core.ac.uk/?p=1419#comment-111</guid> <description><![CDATA[I sincerely hope that, following this troubling news, a better path forward can be found. CORE is indeed an immensely valuable piece in the puzzle-struggle for Openness and Equality against the unethical paywalling dynamics of the big for-profit players. The membership programme might not be the only solution, but hopefully, the response to it will be positive and plentiful. Beyond that, commitments towards the sustainability of CORE on national and indeed international levels will need to be found, much like for the Internet Archive and other indispensable partners and services.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[I sincerely hope that, following this troubling news, a better path forward can be found. CORE is indeed an immensely valuable piece in the puzzle-struggle for Openness and Equality against the unethical paywalling dynamics of the big for-profit players. The membership programme might not be the only solution, but hopefully, the response to it will be positive and plentiful. Beyond that, commitments towards the sustainability of CORE on national and indeed international levels will need to be found, much like for the Internet Archive and other indispensable partners and services. ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> Comment on CORE to become an independent Open Access service from August 2023 by Aaron Tay </title> <link>https://blog.core.ac.uk/2022/11/07/1419/#comment-109</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Aaron Tay]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2022 19:39:48 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.core.ac.uk/?p=1419#comment-109</guid> <description><![CDATA[I agree with all the comments so far. While there are a few aggregators of repositories out there, none can match CORE's comprehensive scope (global and full text!) and sophistication. Certainly, the TDM aspect covering cross-disciplinary topics is nearly unique. (Semantic Scholar's corpus is the only other major alternative I can think of). The CORE team has been advancing the state of research in the area of Scholarly communications for a decade, and the data they provide is quickly becoming an important core of the open scholarly infrastructure. It is one of the sources of services as diverse as lens.org, https://consensus.app/search/, IRIS.ai etc. I believe we are at a point in our history, where the level of Open Access has hit a tipping point, and text mining methods are starting to show their power. The CORE team has been working in this area and continues to advance research in areas like citation classification https://blog.core.ac.uk/2021/06/29/second-sdp-3c-shared-task-evaluating-automated-methods-for-citation-classification/ and it would be a pity if the lack of funding is an obstacle to further progress. While commercial players will certainly move in, it is important there is a non-profit service like CORE to ensure it is not all locked behind expensive or proprietary services.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[I agree with all the comments so far. While there are a few aggregators of repositories out there, none can match CORE’s comprehensive scope (global and full text!) and sophistication. Certainly, the TDM aspect covering cross-disciplinary topics is nearly unique. (Semantic Scholar’s corpus is the only other major alternative I can think of). The CORE team has been advancing the state of research in the area of Scholarly communications for a decade, and the data they provide is quickly becoming an important core of the open scholarly infrastructure. It is one of the sources of services as diverse as lens.org, <a href="https://consensus.app/search/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://consensus.app/search/</a>, IRIS.ai etc. I believe we are at a point in our history, where the level of Open Access has hit a tipping point, and text mining methods are starting to show their power. The CORE team has been working in this area and continues to advance research in areas like citation classification <a href="https://blog.core.ac.uk/2021/06/29/second-sdp-3c-shared-task-evaluating-automated-methods-for-citation-classification/" rel="ugc">https://blog.core.ac.uk/2021/06/29/second-sdp-3c-shared-task-evaluating-automated-methods-for-citation-classification/</a> and it would be a pity if the lack of funding is an obstacle to further progress. While commercial players will certainly move in, it is important there is a non-profit service like CORE to ensure it is not all locked behind expensive or proprietary services. ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> Comment on CORE to become an independent Open Access service from August 2023 by Laureano Felipe Gómez </title> <link>https://blog.core.ac.uk/2022/11/07/1419/#comment-108</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Laureano Felipe Gómez]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2022 16:38:33 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.core.ac.uk/?p=1419#comment-108</guid> <description><![CDATA[Apoyo desde Colombia. CORE es el mejor servicio que existe y requiere financiación por parte de JISC , CORE es muy utilizado y consultado en todo el mundo.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[Apoyo desde Colombia. CORE es el mejor servicio que existe y requiere financiación por parte de JISC , CORE es muy utilizado y consultado en todo el mundo. ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> Comment on CORE to become an independent Open Access service from August 2023 by George Macgregor </title> <link>https://blog.core.ac.uk/2022/11/07/1419/#comment-107</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[George Macgregor]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2022 16:31:38 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.core.ac.uk/?p=1419#comment-107</guid> <description><![CDATA[In reply to <a href="https://blog.core.ac.uk/2022/11/07/1419/#comment-105">Paul Walk</a>. I would agree, Paul -- completely bewildering. The TDM aspect of the decision makes it doubly bewildering. Even if all published research was entirely Gold henceforth, institutions are still going to need that content to be aggregated – as well as historical content, which will be disproportionately Green. An aggregator like CORE is the only infrastructure that enables this kind of computational research to take place, or offers a structured open corpus of this immense size and potential. In other words, CORE is too critical to research interests to default to a membership model in order to finance its existence. There is certainly a need for funders, research bodies, and digital infrastructure quangos like Jisc to think carefully about open research infrastructure, particularly if they still see UK research as being world leading. The UK has evolved to be one of several de facto leaders in open research thinking and  the aforementioned bodies profess to support this leadership. But the decision related to CORE funding does not appear to reflect this, at all.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[In reply to <a href="https://blog.core.ac.uk/2022/11/07/1419/#comment-105">Paul Walk</a>. I would agree, Paul — completely bewildering. The TDM aspect of the decision makes it doubly bewildering. Even if all published research was entirely Gold henceforth, institutions are still going to need that content to be aggregated – as well as historical content, which will be disproportionately Green. An aggregator like CORE is the only infrastructure that enables this kind of computational research to take place, or offers a structured open corpus of this immense size and potential. In other words, CORE is too critical to research interests to default to a membership model in order to finance its existence. There is certainly a need for funders, research bodies, and digital infrastructure quangos like Jisc to think carefully about open research infrastructure, particularly if they still see UK research as being world leading. The UK has evolved to be one of several de facto leaders in open research thinking and  the aforementioned bodies profess to support this leadership. But the decision related to CORE funding does not appear to reflect this, at all. ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> Comment on CORE to become an independent Open Access service from August 2023 by Mike Taylor </title> <link>https://blog.core.ac.uk/2022/11/07/1419/#comment-106</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Taylor]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2022 12:27:54 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.core.ac.uk/?p=1419#comment-106</guid> <description><![CDATA[I am in full agreement with Paul Walk.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[I am in full agreement with Paul Walk. ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> Comment on CORE to become an independent Open Access service from August 2023 by Paul Walk </title> <link>https://blog.core.ac.uk/2022/11/07/1419/#comment-105</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Walk]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2022 11:10:07 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.core.ac.uk/?p=1419#comment-105</guid> <description><![CDATA[The timing of this abandonment of the CORE service seems inexplicable to me. There is a clear trend in the growing importance of preprints held in repositories in the open-access landscape. It has taken years to get to this point, with CORE playing its part to help establish this. Funders now recognise repositories as authoritative sources of scholarly articles (and, indeed, other resources). The need for a reliable and performant aggregation of records - and full text resources - from distributed repositories is, consequently, greater than ever before. The CORE aggregation service is held in wide esteem as that rarest of things - a successful, open infrastructure service. Now is not the time to abandon it. I would urge Jisc to reconsider this decision.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[The timing of this abandonment of the CORE service seems inexplicable to me. There is a clear trend in the growing importance of preprints held in repositories in the open-access landscape. It has taken years to get to this point, with CORE playing its part to help establish this. Funders now recognise repositories as authoritative sources of scholarly articles (and, indeed, other resources). The need for a reliable and performant aggregation of records – and full text resources – from distributed repositories is, consequently, greater than ever before. The CORE aggregation service is held in wide esteem as that rarest of things – a successful, open infrastructure service. Now is not the time to abandon it. I would urge Jisc to reconsider this decision. ]]></content:encoded> </item> </channel> </rss>