As CORE marks 15 years of supporting open scholarly infrastructure, we’re launching a short educational series to help repository managers make the most of the CORE Dashboard. Each instalment will take you through one area of the dashboard, unpack what the data means, and explain how it can support visibility, quality, and compliance goals.

We start with the Overview tab the first thing you see when you log into the dashboard, and the quickest way to understand how your repository is represented in CORE. read more...

The Open University is the project coordinator for the 2-year CHIST-ERA funded SoFAIR project which aims to make research software a first-class, FAIR research object (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable). 

We are excited to share that  our paper, “Identifying and Classifying Software Mentions in Full-Text Scholarly Documents,” has been accepted for presentation at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2025). This work reports the first systematic evaluation of large language models (LLMs) for detecting and classifying software mentions in research papers. Using benchmark datasets, SoftCite, SoMeSci, and the new SoFAIR corpus the study compares different prompting and retrieval strategies, showing that LLM-based approaches substantially outperform previous rule-based and conventional NLP methods, particularly across a multi-disciplinary corpus. The work demonstrates the potential for LLMs to move software-mention detection from a research challenge toward a deployable capability, capable of extracting software names, versions, and publishers.  read more...