CORE vs Directory of Open Access Journals
CORE
core.ac.ukDirectory of Open Access Journals
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| Figure | CORE | Directory of Open Access Journals |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 11 | 1 |
| Spec score · Academic Research Databases | 8.8 (#3) | 7.2 (#24) |
| Founded | The Open University records the CORE project period as February–July 2011, and contemporary OU news says the service launched in 2011. | Lars Bjørnshauge founded DOAJ in 2003. |
| Headquarters | Milton Keynes, United Kingdom | Roskilde, Denmark |
| Support | Starting members receive general support, while Supporting and Sustaining members receive increasing levels of technical support. | Users can contact the Help Desk with feedback, questions about DOAJ's website or services, or complaints. |
| Who it serves | CORE lists researchers, the general public, academic institutions, developers, funders, and companies among the stakeholders its services support. | DOAJ's mission serves quality peer-reviewed open access scholarly research journals across disciplines, geographies, and languages. |
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
Directory of Open Access Journals
- Premium Metadata ServicesPriced on request
In their own words
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.
Directory of Open Access Journals
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