I've mentioned CORE before (most recently, here and here). This is a publication providing a formal presentation of the service. "CORE aggregates open access research papers from thousands of data providers from all over the world including institutional and subject repositories, open access (OA) and hybrid journals," hence making it, according to the article, "the largest collection of OA literature" and "provides a number of ways for accessing its data for both users and machines, including a free API and a complete dump of its data." The paper lists a number of challenges to OA aggregation from so many diverse sources, and offers as it's key innovation "the improvement of the process of aggregating research literature." Code for most of CORE is available but not this ingestion module. The paper goes to great lengths to compare itself to other open content aggregation services, and reads a bit like an investment prospectus, which maybe it is.
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