CORE listed Number 1 in the list of top 21 free online journal and research databases
An online editing and proofreading company, Scribendi, has recently put together a list of top 21 freely available online databases....Read more
Nancy Pontika
Project Officer - Open Access Aggregation
Nancy Pontika
Project Officer - Open Access Aggregation
I am an Open Access Aggregation Officer at CORE (https://core.ac.uk) and also involved in the FOSTER+ (https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/) and OpenMinTed (http://openminted.eu/) projects.
My field of interest is scholarly communication and my focus is on open science and open access. I advocate for Open Access, machine accessibility to open access research papers and the promotion of Open Science for the advancement of research. I have a PhD on Open Access, with a focus on Open Access Funders’ Policies from Simmons College, Boston, MA, USA.
In the past I have worked for the Repositories Support Project (RSP) and as a repository manager at Royal Holloway, University of London. I serve as an Editor at the Open Access Directory (http://oad.simmons.edu) and as an External Liaison Officer at the UK Council of Research Repositories (http://ukcorr.org).
CORE now offers 5 millions of open access full-text research papers
CORE, a harvesting service that aggregates open access content from open access journals and repositories from all over the world, currently provides 5 millions of open access full-text papers....Read more
KMi Researchers participated in a case study for an ADBU's Text and Data Mining in Research Report
The past month the French Association of Directors and Officers of University Libraries and Documentation (ADBU) released a report entitled “Text and Data Mining in Higher Education and Public Research”, which mainly explores the UK and French copyright exceptions for text and data mining (TDM)....Read more
CORE wins Best Poster Award at the Open Repositories Conference #OR2016
Last week, the CORE team attended the 11th Annual Conference on Open Repositories, an international conference addressed mainly to subject and institutional repository managers, focusing on open access, open data and open science tools, projects and services....Read more
CORE - COnnecting REpositories
Linking semantically similar publications from Open Access repositories using text mining from full-text and representing the relations as Linked Data...Read more
Knoth, P., Anastasiou, L., Charalampous, A., Cancellieri, M., Pearce, S., Pontika, N. and Bayer, V. (2017) Towards effective research recommender systems for repositories, Open Repositories 2017
Oudenhoven, M and Pontika, N. (2017) Learning about text and data mining: The future of Open Science, Poster at Open Science Conference
Pearce, S. and Pontika, N. (2016) Integration of the IRUS-UK Statistics in the CORE Repositories Dashboard, Poster at Open Repositories (OR2016)
Orth, A, Pontika, N. and Ball, D (2016) FOSTER's Open Science Training Tools and Best Practices, 20th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, in eds. Loizides, Fernando and Schmidt, Birgit, Positioning and Power in Academic Publishing: Players, Agents, Agendas, eds. Loizides, Fernando and Schmidt, Birgit
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