CAB Abstracts vs CORE
CAB Abstracts
cabi.org
CORE
core.ac.ukSide by side
| Figure | CAB Abstracts | CORE |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 11 |
| Spec score · Academic Research Databases | 7.2 (#23) | 8.8 (#3) |
| Founded | CABI traces its beginnings to 1910. | The Open University records the CORE project period as February–July 2011, and contemporary OU news says the service launched in 2011. |
| Global coverage | CAB Abstracts features publications from over 120 countries in 50 languages, with English abstracts for most articles. | The 2023 study said CORE content came from more than 10,000 providers in 150 countries and covered 118 estimated languages. |
| Headquarters | Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK | Milton Keynes, United Kingdom |
| Support | CABI says CAB Direct includes training videos and webinars, a quick guide, and online help. | Starting members receive general support, while Supporting and Sustaining members receive increasing levels of technical support. |
Plans
CORE
- StartingPriced on request
- SupportingPriced on request
- SustainingPriced on request
- CORE APIFree
- CORE API — free access without registrationFree
- Institution and Enterprise API trialFree
- Starting membershipFree
- Starting membershipFree
- CORE API — registered accessPriced on request
- Supporting membershipPriced on request
In their own words
CAB Abstracts
CAB Abstracts has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
CORE
CORE is a multidisciplinary discovery service for scholarly work gathered from repositories, preprint servers and journals. Its search covers research papers, journal articles, preprints, theses, dissertations, conference proceedings, reports and books. CORE says its collection holds 449 million searchable papers, including 57 million full texts. Researchers and the public can search this material; developers can use the API for real-time access to metadata and full texts. The CORE Dataset supports downloading data for analysis and text mining on an organisation’s own infrastructure, though access is limited to users representing organisations registered in non-sanctioned countries. Individuals can use the API instead. CORE Discovery is available as a browser extension, repository plugin and API, and CORE Recommender suggests related articles in repositories, journal systems and web interfaces. Free API access costs nothing, subject to rate limits of one batch request or five single requests per 10 seconds. Starting membership costs nothing for data providers. The service describes itself as not-for-profit and community-governed.