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Advancing Open Science with CORE: Insights from the CHIST-ERA Projects Seminar 2025

Nancy Pontika, Monday 28 Apr 2025

KMi’s Prof Petr Knoth, participated as one of four Open Science panellists at the recent CHIST-ERA Projects Seminar 2025. The panel addressed significant challenges in Open Science, including interoperability issues, underfunding of Green Open Access, lack of recognition for infrastructure contributions, and misaligned incentives. Prof Knoth highlighted the critical role of infrastructure like CORE in addressing these challenges.

CORE, which indexes over 250 million open access research outputs, is central to KMi’s efforts to enhance research software discoverability. The SoFAIR project, a CHIST-ERA-funded initiative, is embedding a semi-automated workflow into CORE’s infrastructure. This workflow uses AI to identify, validate, and archive software mentions in research papers, significantly improving their visibility and contributing to a more transparent and reproducible research ecosystem.

Prof Knoth emphasized that Open Science requires not only better policies but also robust tools to support researchers. As SoFAIR progresses, CORE continues to expand its role as a global backbone for Open Access research, enriching metadata and shaping policy dialogue to make knowledge accessible to all.