CORE: Three Access Levels to Underpin Open Access

• Published in: D-Lib magazine Vol. 18; no. 11/12
• Main Authors: Knoth, Petr, Zdrahal, Zdenek
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.11.2012
• Subjects: Digital preservation; Metadata harvesting; Open access publishing
• DOI: 10.1045/november2012-knoth
• ISSN: 1082-9873

Argues that the open availability of large volumes of state-of-the-art knowledge online has the potential to provide huge savings and benefits in many fields, and that in order to fully leverage this knowledge it is necessary to develop systems that (a) make it easy for users to discover and access this knowledge at the level of individual resources, (b) explore and analyse this knowledge at the level of collections of resources and (c) provide infrastructure and access to raw data in order to lower the barriers to the research and development of systems and services on top of this knowledge. Contends that these requirements should be satisfied but that current systems do not meet them. Presents the CORE (COnnecting REpositories) system, a large-scale Open Access aggregation, outlining its existing functionality and discussing the future technical development. Demonstrates how the system addresses the above needs and how it can be applied to the benefit of the whole ecosystem that includes institutional repositories, individuals, researchers, developers, funding bodies and governments. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.