CORE vs ProQuest Central
CORE
core.ac.ukProQuest Central
about.proquest.comSide by side
| Figure | CORE | ProQuest Central |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 11 | 1 |
| Spec score · Academic Research Databases | 8.8 (#3) | 6.7 (#30) |
| Collection scale | A 2023 study reported more than 291 million metadata records and 32.8 million records with full text. | The product page lists more than 15,000 full-text scholarly journals, 4,600 magazines and trade journals, and over 1,600 active full-text news sources. |
| Headquarters | Milton Keynes, United Kingdom | ProQuest lists its headquarters in Ann Arbor, Michigan. |
| Support | Starting members receive general support, while Supporting and Sustaining members receive increasing levels of technical support. | ProQuest Central’s product page links to a Support Center with training, troubleshooting, and how-to resources. |
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
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.
ProQuest Central
ProQuest Central has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.