CORE to become an independent OA service from August 2023

8 November 2022

The current Jisc OU contract for delivering CORE to the open scholarly community is expiring in July 2023. From this time onwards CORE will be operated by The Open University and will no longer receive direct funding from Jisc.

CORE’s strategy for replacing the income previously received from Jisc will be through the CORE Membership programme, which will be launched later this month. HEIs from around the world that have an open repository and open access publishers will be able to voluntarily support CORE’s operation via a Supporting or Sustaining option and participate on its Board of Supporters. Members of the Board of Supporters will be able to influence CORE’s development roadmap. Additional benefits of participation are listed in our earlier blog post. Institutions are able to register their interest on the CORE website. Jisc are supporting the roll-out of the membership scheme for UK institutions. If you are a Jisc member, you will be able to sign up directly via Licence Subscriptions Manager. 

 

(Editor’s note: you will shortly be able to see Petr and David discuss this development as part of our open UKSG webinar: Towards Sustainable Scholarly Infrastructures – The case of CORE https://bit.ly/3Uam1vD, registration required to receive automated email instructions)