@pipeworx/core-research

Connect: https://gateway.pipeworx.io/core-research/mcp · Install: one-click buttons

Tools: 2

CORE (core.ac.uk), the Open University’s aggregator of open-access research: search papers across thousands of repositories and journals and fetch one paper’s metadata, abstract and full-text download link by CORE id.

Tools

• search_papers(query, limit?) — matching works: title, authors, abstract, DOI, year, download URL, publisher.
• get_paper(id) — one work by CORE id, with language, citation count and reference count.

Auth

BYO only: pass your own CORE API key as _apiKey. Register at https://core.ac.uk/services/api. There is no platform key, so the call runs under the caller’s own CORE licence.

Licence — zero-rated (fleet #1974)

CORE’s Terms & Conditions (https://core.ac.uk/terms) §3 “Other datasets and the API”: the API needs a licence; individuals and public research organisations may get a free one provided they “acknowledge the use of CORE”; and anyone “developing or intending to develop a product, service or software using CORE data which might be monetised now or in the future” must contact CORE. Consequences:

• zeroRated: true on the gateway entry: 0 credits on every tier, so the gateway is never the monetised product §3 describes.
• Every response leads with attribution, license (LicenseRef-CORE-Terms-and-Conditions, kind: vendor_terms, obligations attribution + non_commercial) and license_note, via attachLicense in @pipeworx/shared.
• The caller’s own CORE licence governs what they may do with the data.

Data sources

• https://api.core.ac.uk/v3/search/works — search (note the trailing-slash 301 if you call it by hand; the pack follows it).
• https://api.core.ac.uk/v3/works/{id} — one work.

Tools

• search_papers — Search open-access research papers by keyword (e.g., “machine learning healthcare”). Returns titles, authors, abstracts, DOIs, and download links. Useful for literature reviews and finding academic so
• get_paper — Get full metadata for a research paper by its CORE ID. Returns title, authors, abstract, full text link, DOI, publisher, year, and citation count.