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Legal Core
Legal Core presents a collection of open-access research papers, as described by its title and page heading.
About Legal Core
Legal Core is a web-based bibliographic database of scholarly literature focused on open access research papers. It is described as a not-for-profit, community-governed infrastructure that indexes repositories and journals. It provides content discovery for finding relevant research and making research more visible.
You can search and explore open access papers, and access metadata and full text through APIs and datasets, including machine access to the full text corpus. Repository managers can manage how content is exposed, use the OAI resolver for persistent identifiers, and find guidance on open access compliance monitoring. It also lists services for raw data access and content management.
It suits researchers, students, and members of the general public looking for open research, as well as academic institutions, funders, and companies working with scholarly data.
Key features
- Search and explore open access research papers
- Access metadata and full text via APIs and datasets
- Machine access to full text corpus
- Resolve OAI identifiers to repository landing pages
- Manage how repository content is exposed
Best for: Researchers, students, institutions, and companies that need open access papers and scholarly metadata.
Good for
- Free discovery tools for researchers and public
- Provides both metadata and full-text access
- Supports repositories with identifiers and compliance guidance
- Not-for-profit and community-governed infrastructure
Watch out for
- Covers open access content only
Legal Core at a glance
- Website
- core.ac.uk
- Category
- Research & Data › Academic Papers
- Type
- Website
- Pricing
- Free
- Platforms
- Web
- Open source
- Not stated
- Language
- English
- Last checked
- Oct 5, 2026 · Online when checked
- Listed
- Oct 5, 2026
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Legal Core FAQ
What is Legal Core?
It is a web-based bibliographic database of scholarly literature focused on open access research papers from repositories and journals.
What can I do with CORE data?
You can search papers and access metadata and full text through APIs and datasets, including machine access.
Is CORE free to use?
Discovery tools for researchers and the general public are described as free for everyone, forever.
How does CORE help repositories?
It indexes repositories, offers OAI identifier resolution, and provides guidance on exposing metadata for compliance monitoring.
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