CORE Plugin

CORE Plugin can be integrated with repositories to provide recommendations on semantically related resources. The Plugin is easily integratable with any repository as it only needs Javascript.

The current version of the Plugin recommends full-text items in Open Access repositories that are related to: (a) a metadata record, (b) a full-text item in pdf, (c) any piece of text, or (d) any combination of the previous. The more information is supplied the more accurate is the result. In the past, CORE required the resource that is used as a query to be available also as Open Access. This is no longer the requirement, but it is still a good practice.

The CORE Plugin consists of four files: index.htm, jquery.coreWidget.js, jquery.coreWidget.css, jquery-1.6.2.min.js.

The plugin can be installed by placing the following part of the index.html file into your page, by specifying the path to the javascript and css files and by correctly setting the parameters of the call. The parameters oai and URL define the document with respect to which the recommendations are provided. We suggest to use either oai or URL. If the document has not yet been harvested by CORE, the system will try to access the pdf copy at the location specified by the URL parameter. It is therefore important that the specified URL is public. If the document is not associated with a full-text, the CORE Plugin can still be used (but the result is likely to be less precise than when using full-text). Just specify any number of tthe parameters. The more information is provided, the better result you will get. Finally, it is necessary to specify your API key which you can freely obtain by contacting us. More information is provided here.

Then in the body, specify a div into which the plugin will be loaded.

The style of the Plugin can be adapted to your repository needs in the jquery.coreWidget.css The jquery.coreWidget.js allows adapting the layout of the Plugin, however, we ask users not to change the information in the footer and its appearance.

Please do not hesitate to contact us, should you have any problems when integrating the CORE Plugin,