Generally, no (see our Terms of Service). Our goal is to preserve and provide access to work submitted to CORE, and we strongly discourage the withdrawal of items from it. CORE is designed to provide its users with a permanent and accessible record of their scholarship, and assures continued access to that scholarship through its robust archiving features and the minting of DOIs. These DOIs are then indexed by a number of external services, and by minting them, we are assuring a working link to the content to which they refer. If you have published a version of the work elsewhere and wish to point to that version in the Notes field of your CORE deposit, please let us know.

In exceptional cases, we may remove an item at the author’s request. However, although the item itself will be removed, the record of its existence will persist in CORE, along with text explaining why it is not longer available.

You can check out our SlideShare presentation from 2015, but if you still have questions, please do get in touch.

Email us! We’re working on an interface that will allow users to edit the work they upload for a limited time after deposit, but for now you can contact us with the DOI and the corrections you’d like made and we’ll fix it for you.

If you are using a Mac, click on the first forum with which you want to associate your deposit, then hold down the COMMAND key and click on the other forums. If you are using a PC, click on the first forum, then hold down the CTRL key and click on the other forums.

Policies vary by publisher and journal. Look up the journal or publisher by name in the SHERPA-RoMEO database to find out its policies covering archiving—referred to on the Commons as depositing. For example, if your article was published in PMLA, you may deposit preprint (not yet peer-reviewed) versions of the article as well as postprint (peer-reviewed) articles. You may also publish the PDF file available from the publisher as long as you comply with certain conditions. If your article is published in French Studies, for instance, you may deposit a preprint version before it is accepted and a postprint version after a two-year embargo but not the publisher’s PDF file.

If you wish to deposit a book chapter or a monograph, please check your agreement with the publisher.

Works deposited in CORE are covered by the Humanities Commons Terms of Service, which stipulate that members may not use your content without your specific consent or unless you share it under a Creative Commons license. 

If you are depositing an image, data set, or other item that you would like to make available to other scholars, we encourage you to grant such permission by way of a Creative Commons license. You have the option to attribute such a license to your work at the time of deposit.

To cite an item not covered by the usual style guides, we recommend that you include the following information: author name(s), title, date of creation, version or edition (if any), permanent URL, and DOI.

The maximum file size for a single item is 100 megabytes. Need to upload something larger? Let us know.

CORE accepts the following file types:

• Audio: .mp3, .ogg, .wav
• Data: .csv, .ods, .sxc, .tsv, .xls, .xlsx
• Image: .gif, .jpeg, .jpg, .png, .psd, .tiff
• Mixed material or software: .gz, .rar, .tar, .zip
• Text: .doc, .docx, .htm, .html, .odp, .odt, .pdf, .pps, .ppt, .pptx, .rdf, .rtf, .sxi, .sxw, .txt, .wpd, .xml
• Video: .f4v, .flv, .mov, .mp4

Please note that if you are uploading a word-processed document, PDF files are preferred for reasons of cross-platform compatibility and security.