Electronic resources: UK’s open access full-text search engine to aid research

Open access research is now more accessible as JISC has developed a new search engine to help academics, students and the general public navigate papers held in the UK’s open access repositories. JISC has funded the Open University’s Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) to create an innovative new search facility which searches not just the abstract but the full text of the article.

When researchers use current systems like Google Scholar to search academic papers they can find themselves denied access to the full article, particularly when subscription fees are required. They also typically have to search across a number of open access repositories or use searches that harvest data from different sources. But now, using the COnnecting REpositories tool or CORE, people can search the full text of items held in 142 approved Open Access repositories.

CORE is accessible via an online portal, via users’ mobile devices or through repositories and libraries that have integrated CORE with their own search features. CORE is already integrated into The Open University’s research repository, Open Research Online (ORO) which includes more than 18,900 research publications.