{"id":26401,"date":"2024-12-12T15:00:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T15:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/?p=26401"},"modified":"2024-12-13T10:57:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T10:57:26","slug":"core-receives-funding-for-five-years-from-microsofts-open-data-initiative-to-increase-access-to-open-scientific-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/science-mct\/core-receives-funding-for-five-years-from-microsofts-open-data-initiative-to-increase-access-to-open-scientific-research\/","title":{"rendered":"CORE receives funding for five years from Microsoft\u2019s open data initiative to increase access to open scientific research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CORE, an Open Access infrastructure operated by The Open University, has been awarded significant funding for the next five years from Microsoft, as part of its\u2019 support for increasing access to data and scientific research.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since 2020, Microsoft has worked to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/corporate-responsibility\/open-data\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">close the data divide<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and help organisations of all sizes realise the benefits of open data and the new technologies it powers. Microsoft aims to make the process of opening, sharing, and collaborating around data easier so that researchers and innovators can uncover new insights, make better decisions, and improve efficiencies when tackling some of the world\u2019s most pressing challenges<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CORE indexes scholarly content from over 12,000 institutional repositories, preprint servers and journals and makes this available to the global community via a range of services built on top of the data. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CORE currently delivers its services to over 30 million monthly users.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The funding will support CORE in:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Improving processes for indexing and increasing discoverability of Open Access content from repositories, journals and preprint services.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Developing technology to improve the quantity and quality of scholarly metadata in CORE, ensuring CORE significantly contributes to the delivery of a global scholarly knowledge graph.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Improving CORE services for better machine access to academic content, in line with the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/08-2022-OSTP-Public-access-Memo.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">requirements of the OSTP memo<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and in line with other OA policy requirements.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Conducting research on ethical and responsible ways of using academic content in the age of AI.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Developing an annual yearly statistical monitoring process for open access content growth.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Further, this funding will allow us to grow and strengthen the infrastructure that supports these services. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CORE will remain a community-governed infrastructure, in line with its commitments as a signatory to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/openscholarlyinfrastructure.org\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructures (POSI)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Professor Petr Knoth, founder and team lead for CORE said;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe are delighted to receive the support from Microsoft to deliver on our ongoing mission to become the most comprehensive index of open access scholarly documents. Open access, open science and open data are critical components of a fairer, more just world where access to scientific information is available to all. The team at CORE has been committed to this goal for over 10 years and it is fantastic to see this effort being recognised.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Burton Davis, Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, at Microsoft added;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMicrosoft is committed to increasing open access to scientific knowledge to help further research and fuel breakthroughs to address society\u2019s greatest challenges, such as improving healthcare and the sustainability of our planet. We are proud to support CORE\u2019s important work of making more scientific scholarly content openly available, helping foster innovation, including the responsible development of AI.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CORE, an Open Access infrastructure operated by The Open University, has been awarded significant funding for the next five years from Microsoft, as part of its\u2019 support for increasing access to data and scientific research.\u00a0 Since 2020, Microsoft has worked to close the data divide and help organisations of all sizes realise the benefits of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":2367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[861,1525,1640],"class_list":["post-26401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-mct","tag-faculty-of-stem","tag-news-home","tag-ou-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26403,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26401\/revisions\/26403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}