The first indication that something was going on at the Connecting Repositories (CORE) project was this blog post seeking CORE 'memberships'. Fees aren't cheap (but they're already discounted). The other shoe dropped this week with the carefully worded announcement that CORE "will become an independent Open Access service." In other words, Jisc is cutting its funding. Researchers are not happy. As the United Kingdom Council of Open Research and Repositories (UKCORR) wrote in an open letter, "a membership model would threaten the viability of CORE and only seek to compromise the efficacy of the UK's open research infrastructure," and adds, "the Jisc decision, and its underlying rationale, is one that UKCORR and its members find bewildering."
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