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Dear all,

You are invited to the next, free UKSG webinar: "Better together: building services for public good on top of content from the global network of open repositories"

http://bit.ly/2lAHLpF

Date: Tuesday 19 November 2019

Time: 1400 GMT (Greenwich Mean Time)

Duration: 45-60 minutes including Q&A

Speakers:

- Petr Knoth, Senior Research Fellow in Text and Data Mining, CORE.

- Nancy Pontika, Open Access Aggregation Officer, CORE.

Overview:

CORE hosts the world’s largest collection of open access full texts, offering seamless, unrestricted access to research for citizens, researchers, libraries, software developers, funders and others. CORE’s aggregated content comes from thousands of institutional and subject repositories as well as journals and covers all research disciplines. In January 2019, CORE has hit the mark of 10 million monthly active users (10.41 million users). In September 2019, core.ac.uk has made it to the top 5k websites globally by user engagement as measured by the independent Alexa Rank, making it clearly one of the world’s most widely used Open Access services.

In this talk, Petr and Nancy will explain the role of CORE in the open science ecosystem. They will introduce the solutions CORE offers for improving the delivery of research literature, including tools for discovering freely available copies of papers that might be behind publishers’ paywalls as well as a recommender system for open access literature. The use of CORE data to monitor compliance with open access policies has also recently received attention. The presenters will then reflect on the challenges in the sector and share their experience of building value-added services for the society on top of open content offered by libraries and their affiliated institutional repositories and open access journals.

General information:

This is a free webinar and open to all. If you are interested, but unable to join the live event, please register anyway as a recording will be made available to all who register. If you have particular accessibility needs, please feel free to contact me on samira@uksg.org

To register, please visit: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/5844743630418655245

Thank you for your attention. I hope you can join us.

Kind regards,

Samira Koelle | Events, UKSG | samira@uksg.org | T +44 (0)1993 848232

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