How the University of Glasgow uses CORE FreshFinds to streamline repository workflows

George Macgregor, Assistant Director – Digital Library, University of Glasgow

A core objective of CORE FreshFinds is to make it easier for institutional repositories to capture newly published research and maintain a comprehensive record of their academics’ research outputs. It also helps to ensure institutions are optimising research discovery while simultaneously mitigating deposit pressures that might arise from funder driven Open Access policies.

FreshFinds automatically identifies newly published papers authored by an institution’s researchers that are not yet available in its repository. Following the retirement of the Jisc Publications Router service, higher education institutions needed a reliable, automated alternative to help them discover and ingest new research outputs. CORE FreshFinds was developed to address this need. read more...

Shaping FreshFinds together: thank you to everyone at the Oxford community workshop

On 27 October, the Bodleian Libraries hosted a community workshop at the University of Oxford focused on CORE FreshFinds and the future development of shared repository infrastructure. Repository and library colleagues from across the UK joined the workshop both in person and online. We would like to thank Ruth Mallalieu, Jason Partridge and their colleagues at Oxford for organising the day and bringing the community together.

The workshop followed the conclusion of the initial CORE FreshFinds pilot with the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, the University of Glasgow and Buckinghamshire New University. Alongside colleagues from the pilot institutions, the workshop brought in representatives from other universities to contribute their perspectives and help shape what comes next for FreshFinds. read more...

Understanding the CORE Dashboard: Finding New Research with the FreshFinds Tab

CORE FreshFinds is now live in the CORE Dashboard and available to CORE Sustaining Members. It has been shaped with repository teams through our recent pilot, and we will keep developing it with your feedback. This post is part of our Understanding the CORE Dashboard series. It walks through the FreshFinds tab: what it shows, and how to set it up so papers can be deposited into your repository.

The FreshFinds module alerts institutions to newly published papers by their researchers that are not yet in their repository. It streamlines the deposit process and helps repositories maintain a complete record of institutional research outputs.  read more...

CORE recommits to the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI) in 2026

In 2022 CORE published its first self-assessment against the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI). Much has changed since then. CORE is now an independent not-for-profit, CORE: COnecting REpositories, our software is fully open source, and the planned governance bodies we described in our POSI commitment in 2022 are now in place.

As of the 14th of September 2026, CORE has become an independent organisation, a spin-out from The Open University, established as a dedicated entity for the operation, development and long-term sustainability of the CORE service. Our mission does not change. CORE exists to index open access research worldwide and make it discoverable and reusable, giving repositories the visibility and reuse their content deserves.  read more...

Publications Router has retired: where CORE FreshFinds stands

On 1 July, Jisc’s Publications Router was switched off after nearly a decade of quietly piping metadata and manuscripts into institutional repositories. If you manage a repository, you have probably spent the past few weeks watching that particular feed go quiet.

In May we set out how CORE would support deposit workflows once Router retired, and we followed that with a webinar alongside Jisc. Both were about what FreshFinds would do. Three months on, the retirement has happened, the pilot has started, and this is a report on what has been built since. read more...

Understanding the CORE Dashboard: Checking Open Access Compliance for REF2029

With this instalment of our educational series we begin exploring the OA Compliance tab in the CORE Dashboard. Over the next three instalments we will look at the different compliance views the Dashboard offers: REF2029, the RIOXX metadata validator, and the Desirable Characteristics Report. We start with REF2029.

What the REF2029 tab does

The REF2029 tab provides dedicated tools for monitoring how your repository is performing against REF2029 open access requirements. At present, we track the duration between a paper’s deposit and its official publication. CORE compiles this information from repository metadata, as detailed in the CORE recommendations for REF. read more...

Understanding the CORE Dashboard: Managing Repository Content with the Content Tab

The Content tab is the central location for managing the information CORE holds about your repository. It provides repository managers with a complete view of the outputs indexed by CORE and offers tools for reviewing content, checking availability, managing visibility, and responding to content removal requests.

In this installment of the CORE Dashboard Educational Series, we explore the key features of the Content tab and how they can support day-to-day repository management.

The Content tab is for the general management of all the information that CORE holds about your repository. It lists all the papers that CORE was able to index from your repository. If the number of outputs visible in CORE doesn’t match the number of outputs in your repository, you can investigate the reason by making sure that your repository is compliant with the CORE Data Provider’s Guide. Any issues we may have detected with your repository shown in the Indexing status tab are also a good indicator for understanding the difference. read more...

Webinar Recording: CORE FreshFinds as a solution for populating repositories

Last week, CORE and Jisc hosted a webinar on the development of CORE FreshFinds as a solution for populating repositories following the retirement of Publications Router.

The discussion brought together repository managers and members of the scholarly communications community to explore questions around repository workflows, metadata quality, full text discovery, interoperability, deposit workflows, and sustainable open infrastructure.

During the session, Petr Knoth shared the development roadmap for FreshFinds and discussed how CORE’s existing indexing and full text processing infrastructure is being used to support repository teams in identifying newly published research outputs that may not yet be present in institutional repositories. read more...

Supporting Repository Deposit Workflows Following the Retirement of Publications Router

08 May 2026

The recent announcement to retire Jisc Publications Router has prompted important conversations across the repositories community about how institutions currently relying on these workflows will continue identifying and managing newly published research outputs that have not yet been deposited in their repositories.

For repository teams, these workflows play an important role in maintaining comprehensive and timely institutional records of scholarly outputs while reducing the administrative burden placed on researchers and repository staff. Reliance on manual deposit workflows can create significant overheads for repository teams and make it more difficult for institutions to maintain a comprehensive scholarly record. In some institutions, automated deposit workflows also play an important role in supporting compliance with open access policies and related reporting requirements. As institutions review how these workflows will continue following the retirement of Publications Router, many are also considering what replacement infrastructure may emerge to support these processes in the future. read more...

Connecting Global Insight to Action: The CORE Advisory Board

In our most recent CORE newsletter, we shared updates across CORE’s services, partnerships, and community initiatives, reflecting continued progress in advancing open access and strengthening global repository infrastructure.

As part of this ongoing evolution, the CORE Advisory Board has been refreshed, bringing together an internationally diverse group of experts whose collective insight continues to guide CORE’s direction.

An important part of that progress sits behind the scenes: ensuring that CORE remains closely aligned with the needs, priorities, and realities of the global research community. read more...