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Updates from Europe PMC, a global database of life sciences literature

Maria Levchenko

 | 26 February 2024

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Moving to open source

Maria Levchenko

 | 26 February 2024

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Moving to open source

Europe PMC POSI update – 2 years on  Two years have sailed by since Europe PMC adopted the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI) in February 2021. POSI is a set of guidelines for open scholarly infrastructure providers and outlines how these organisations should be run and sustained. It offers a framework to uphold transparency […]

Summer Rosonovski

 | 31 January 2024

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Discovering reviewed preprints

Summer Rosonovski

 | 31 January 2024

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Discovering reviewed preprints

Preprinting has soared in popularity in the life sciences and is increasingly recognised as an excellent method to share research outputs quickly and freely. While preprints have gained popularity, an important consideration is ensuring their scientific quality. This prompted the development of platforms where researchers can comment on, evaluate, and review preprints. Preprint review benefits […]

Summer Rosonovski

 | 15 January 2024

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Europe PMC 2023: a year in review

Summer Rosonovski

 | 15 January 2024

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Europe PMC 2023: a year in review

As 2024 begins we reflect on the achievements our team made in 2023 to meet your needs as users. The team’s efforts were concentrated on building trust in preprints, open sourcing code, as well as expanding and improving text-mining capabilities. Preprint highlights  As part of Europe PMC’s commitment to accessible and discoverable scientific research, 2023 […]

Summer Rosonovski

 | 25 October 2023

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Building a technological foundation for preprint review

Summer Rosonovski

 | 25 October 2023

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Building a technological foundation for preprint review

The practice of preprinting in the life sciences has grown rapidly. In addition to accelerating scientific publication, preprinting also has the potential to open new avenues of communication among researchers. For example, preprint peer review offers tremendous potential for changing the culture of scientific assessment, broadening participation, and enhancing the robustness of scholarship. While only […]

Europe PMC team

 | 28 March 2023

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Improved affiliation search for grants

Europe PMC team

 | 28 March 2023

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Improved affiliation search for grants

Integrating ROR IDs in Grant Finder Funding and research organisations are increasingly looking to understand the impact of the research they support. To link institutions with grant awards from Europe PMC funders the Europe PMC Grant Finder tool now incorporates Research Organization Registry (ROR) IDs. Linking grants and institutions The Grant Finder tool from Europe […]

Europe PMC team

 | 8 March 2023

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Introducing Europe PMC Annotated Full-text Corpus for bioentities and associations

Europe PMC team

 | 8 March 2023

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Introducing Europe PMC Annotated Full-text Corpus for bioentities and associations

Europe PubMed Central (Europe PMC) is an open access repository of life science research, including peer-reviewed journal articles and preprints. It contains over 41 million abstracts and 8.7 million full-text articles, adding over 1.7 million new articles annually. To facilitate information discovery and foster literature–data integration, Europe PMC has incorporated text-mining approaches into its workflows.  […]

Europe PMC team

 | 11 January 2023

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Europe PMC in 2022: a year in review

Europe PMC team

 | 11 January 2023

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Europe PMC in 2022: a year in review

With the start of the new year Europe PMC reflects back on the year 2022. As many of us adjusted to hybrid working, with the opportunity to return back to the office, meet new colleagues, and attend conferences and workshops in person again for the first time since the pandemic, Europe PMC’s efforts continued to […]

Europe PMC team

 | 20 June 2022

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Medical Research Foundation joins Europe PMC

Europe PMC team

 | 20 June 2022

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Medical Research Foundation joins Europe PMC

We are delighted to announce that the Medical Research Foundation joins Europe PMC as a new funder. This brings the Europe PMC funder family to 37 members. The Medical Research Foundation is the charitable foundation of the Medical Research Council. With support from the scientific and medical communities and the public, the charity funds high-quality […]

Europe PMC team

 | 17 May 2022

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Health and Care Research Wales joins Europe PMC funders group

Europe PMC team

 | 17 May 2022

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Health and Care Research Wales joins Europe PMC funders group

 We are delighted to announce that the Health and Care Research Wales joins Europe PMC as a new funder. This brings the Europe PMC funder family to 36 members. Health and Care Research Wales is a networked organisation which brings together a wide range of partners across the NHS in Wales, local authorities, universities, research […]

Europe PMC team

 | 3 May 2022

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Europe PMC improves discoverability of preprints

Europe PMC team

 | 3 May 2022

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Europe PMC improves discoverability of preprints

Europe PMC now includes the full text preprints supported by Europe PMC funders Open science is at the heart of Europe PMC, providing access to open content and data. Recognising the role that preprints play as a way for life science researchers to openly and rapidly share their findings, Europe PMC has made over 420,000 […]

Europe PMC team

 | 3 March 2022

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SciELO Preprints discoverable in Europe PMC

Europe PMC team

 | 3 March 2022

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SciELO Preprints discoverable in Europe PMC

We are delighted to announce that SciELO Preprints are now discoverable in Europe PMC.  SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) is a bibliographic database, digital library, and cooperative electronic publishing model of open access journals. It was originally established in Brazil in 1997 and has since expanded to include collections from 16 countries, predominantly in Latin […]

Europe PMC team

 | 21 February 2022

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Europe PMC adopts the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure

Europe PMC team

 | 21 February 2022

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Europe PMC adopts the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure

As a long-standing service and infrastructure provider in the open science ecosystem, Europe PMC supports the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI). We welcome the momentum gathering behind this initiative to promote the need to support and sustain the open infrastructure. Europe PMC has been a part of the public and open infrastructure for over […]

Europe PMC team

 | 15 February 2022

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EDCTP joins Europe PMC funders group

Europe PMC team

 | 15 February 2022

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EDCTP joins Europe PMC funders group

 We’re delighted to announce that the European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) joins Europe PMC as a new funder. This brings the Europe PMC funder family to 34 members. EDCTP is a public-public partnership between countries in Europe and sub-Saharan Africa, supported by the European Union. EDCTP exists to accelerate the clinical development […]

Europe PMC team

 | 7 February 2022

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Reaching out to researchers: new Community Outreach Officer at Europe PMC

Europe PMC team

 | 7 February 2022

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Reaching out to researchers: new Community Outreach Officer at Europe PMC

Imagine you’re a life science researcher, diving into the literature to better understand your field. What challenges do you find? What tools do you wish you had? As a researcher one faces many challenges, and one of the lesser talked about difficulties is navigating the published literature. My personal goal is to make literature research […]

Europe PMC team

 | 20 January 2022

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Europe PMC in 2021: a year in review

Europe PMC team

 | 20 January 2022

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Europe PMC in 2021: a year in review

The year 2021 has been difficult for many people working remotely, including those here at Europe PMC. We have been unable to meet in person with the users and the wider community that drives this service. As this year has drawn to an end we have taken the time to reflect on some of the […]

Europe PMC team

 | 1 December 2021

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Transparency for preprints: handling withdrawals and removals

Europe PMC team

 | 1 December 2021

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Transparency for preprints: handling withdrawals and removals

Part of the appeal of preprints is the ability to post new versions, allowing researchers to continuously improve their manuscript and correct it if needed. However, in some cases the data or its interpretation presented in the preprint may be proven incorrect with time. In such cases the authors may wish to withdraw or remove […]

Europe PMC team

 | 11 November 2021

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Alerts for topics, authors, preprints, and more

Europe PMC team

 | 11 November 2021

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Alerts for topics, authors, preprints, and more

Keeping up with the current published research has long been a challenging task. With preprints added to the mix, research is shared much quicker, extending the reading list and fuelling information overload. There is a need for useful tools to help researchers stay on top of the new discoveries that are most relevant to their […]

Europe PMC team

 | 25 October 2021

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 | Guest post

Using the Europe PMC REST API to Study Open Access Publishing at the University of Virginia

Europe PMC team

 | 25 October 2021

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 | Guest post

Using the Europe PMC REST API to Study Open Access Publishing at the University of Virginia

In May 2021, the University of Virginia Faculty Senate passed a set of Open Access Guidelines and Recommendations. This was the first university-wide resolution on the subject, though the School of Data Science adopted its own open access policy a few months earlier. At the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, we primarily serve the School […]

Europe PMC team

 | 26 July 2021

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COVID-19 grants: who, where and how much?

Europe PMC team

 | 26 July 2021

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COVID-19 grants: who, where and how much?

Along with life science publications, Europe PMC offers a way to search through biomedical grants from Europe PMC funders using the Grant Finder tool. Last year, Europe PMC partnered with the Medical Research Council (MRC), the UK Collaborative on Development Research (UKCDR) and the Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness (GLoPID-R), to extend its […]

Europe PMC team

 | 11 May 2021

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PsyArXiv preprints now indexed in Europe PMC

Europe PMC team

 | 11 May 2021

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PsyArXiv preprints now indexed in Europe PMC

PsyArXiv preprints are now discoverable in Europe PMC alongside peer-reviewed research PsyArXiv’s collection of more than 14,000 psychological sciences preprints has now been indexed in Europe PMC, an open science platform that enables access to a worldwide collection of 38.6 million life science publications and preprints. “Indexing PsyArXiv in Europe PMC means that psychological preprints […]

Europe PMC team

 | 9 February 2021

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Over 15,300 full text COVID-19 now available in Europe PMC

Europe PMC team

 | 9 February 2021

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Over 15,300 full text COVID-19 now available in Europe PMC

In July 2020, Europe PMC began indexing the full text of COVID-19 preprints. The initiative supported by Wellcome, the UK Medical Research Council, and Swiss National Science Foundation, has now made over 15,300 full text COVID-19 preprints searchable and free to read, alongside peer reviewed articles. Number of full text COVID-19 preprints in Europe PMC […]

Europe PMC team

 | 19 January 2021

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Europe PMC announces renewed funding and two new funders join the family

Europe PMC team

 | 19 January 2021

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Europe PMC announces renewed funding and two new funders join the family

  Europe PMC infrastructure grant renewal We start 2021 with the exciting news that the Europe PMC infrastructure grant has been renewed for the period April 2021 to March 2026. The grant award is supported by 30 international biomedical funders and led by the Principal Investigator Dr Johanna McEntyre, of the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). […]

Europe PMC team

 | 14 January 2021

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Europe PMC in 2020: a year review

Europe PMC team

 | 14 January 2021

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Europe PMC in 2020: a year review

The year 2020 was marked by the global COVID-19 pandemic and the Europe PMC team, like many others around the world, started to work from home. Scientific literature is at the heart of scientific research and during these extraordinary times, Europe PMC worked on improving existing services, building new features, increasing the full text content […]

Europe PMC team

 | 12 January 2021

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Research Square’s Full-text COVID-19 Preprints Now Indexed in Europe PMC

Europe PMC team

 | 12 January 2021

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Research Square’s Full-text COVID-19 Preprints Now Indexed in Europe PMC

More than 4,500 Research Square preprints discoverable alongside peer-reviewed research Research Square’s collection of more than 4,500 full-text COVID-19 preprints have been indexed in Europe PMC, an open-access repository of more than 1 million biomedical research works. The overall effort, jointly supported by Wellcome, the UK Medical Research Council, and Swiss National Science Foundation, expands […]

Europe PMC team

 | 11 November 2020

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Enriching Europe PMC publications with Metagenomics annotations

Europe PMC team

 | 11 November 2020

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Enriching Europe PMC publications with Metagenomics annotations

We are excited to announce the recent release of metagenomics annotations for Europe PMC publications. Thanks to the machine learning framework of Dr. Maaly Nassar for the joint EMERALD project between Europe PMC and MGnify teams, recognising metagenomics key terms in literature can now provide detailed biome descriptions for unravelling microbial implications in a variety […]

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