This post describes the interviewee's experience using the CORE Recommender, a plugin for repositories, journals and web interfaces recommending additional resources from CORE, self-described as "the world's largest collection of open access research papers." George Macgregor from the University of Strathclyde says that use of the recommender "sends out a signal that Strathprints, along with the other services it takes advantage of, is a node within the wider open scholarly communications landscape." He says the recommender is unique because of the size of the collection and its similarity algorithm, which you can read about here. The script is pretty clever; it scans the page where it's embedded for tags or user-defined content and uses the centrally defined recommender to create the output. Sadly my test of the script seems to have failed.
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