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

Europe PMC team

 | 18 May 2018

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Europe PMC and Coko Announce Partnership

Europe PMC team

 | 18 May 2018

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Europe PMC and Coko Announce Partnership

      The Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (CoKo) and Europe PMC are excited to announce a new partnership to develop web-based, open source content and workflow management components that will enable ingest and processing of manuscripts. The system will be built on Coko’s PubSweet technology framework and will contribute to the vision of creating modern, digital-first […]

Europe PMC team

 | 16 May 2018

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Europe PMC and the Research Excellence Framework 2021 (REF 2021)

Europe PMC team

 | 16 May 2018

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Europe PMC and the Research Excellence Framework 2021 (REF 2021)

Several questions have come into our Helpdesk regarding how articles deposited in Europe PMC count towards the REF 2021. We thought it is worth clarifying a few of the questions that have been raised. Does content deposited in Europe PMC count towards REF 2021? The answer is definitely yes. The REF 2021 policy states that: […]

Europe PMC team

 | 19 April 2018

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Swiss National Science Foundation joins Europe PMC

Europe PMC team

 | 19 April 2018

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Swiss National Science Foundation joins Europe PMC

We’re delighted to announce that the Swiss National Science Foundation joins Europe PMC as a new funder. This brings the Europe PMC funder family to 29 members. The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) supports basic science in all academic disciplines, from history to medicine and the engineering sciences. The SNSF is Switzerland’s foremost research funding […]

Europe PMC team

 | 9 April 2018

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Unlocking the open – Europe PMC integrates with Unpaywall

Europe PMC team

 | 9 April 2018

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Unlocking the open – Europe PMC integrates with Unpaywall

It’s always frustrating to hit a paywall when you stumble across an exciting article. Until recently, for many of us the only legal way of getting hold of the publication was to purchase the paper in question. But that is no longer the case for millions of scientific publications thanks to Unpaywall – a free, […]

Europe PMC team

 | 16 February 2018

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Why every researcher should care about open citations

Europe PMC team

 | 16 February 2018

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Why every researcher should care about open citations

What happens when you cite someone’s research? As you write a research publication you include references to the work of your fellow researchers. Once the article is published in a scientific journal the readers may view the reference list to verify cited information or perhaps discover additional studies relevant to their topic. But have you […]

Europe PMC team

 | 15 January 2018

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Get the essence: introducing search snippets

Europe PMC team

 | 15 January 2018

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Get the essence: introducing search snippets

Reading scientific papers can be very time consuming. So you should not waste a minute searching for the relevant literature. Thanks to the cutting-edge search technologies Europe PMC helps you find facts and evidence in research publications in a blink of an eye. Search results now display snippets – highlights from the article matching your […]

Europe PMC team

 | 21 December 2017

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Looking back, looking forward: a year in review

Europe PMC team

 | 21 December 2017

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Looking back, looking forward: a year in review

As 2017 concludes, we reflect on Europe PMC’s landmark achievements. Let’s take a closer look at the highlights of this year. Cutting-edge search and viewing mechanisms Search results now display snippets – fragments of the publication text that contain matches to your query. Snippets highlight the search term in its context, making it easier to […]

Europe PMC team

 | 19 December 2017

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PubMed Central Canada is retiring: response from Europe PMC

Europe PMC team

 | 19 December 2017

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PubMed Central Canada is retiring: response from Europe PMC

The PubMed Central International (PMCI) network is a collaborative effort between the PMCI repositories, publishers, and funding organisations that wish to preserve and provide free access to journal articles authored by the researchers they support. For many years, the PMCI network has consisted of three nodes, PMC USA, Europe PMC and PMC Canada. As of […]

Europe PMC team

 | 14 November 2017

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Harness the power of text-mining for biomedical discovery: introducing Europe PMC Annotations API

Europe PMC team

 | 14 November 2017

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Harness the power of text-mining for biomedical discovery: introducing Europe PMC Annotations API

We are excited to announce the launch of Europe PMC Annotations API, which provides programmatic access to annotations text-mined from biomedical abstracts and open access full text articles. The Annotations API is a part of Europe PMC’s programmatic tools suit and is freely available on the Europe PMC website: https://europepmc.org/AnnotationsApi. The exponential growth in scientific […]

Europe PMC team

 | 31 August 2017

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Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance joins Europe PMC

Europe PMC team

 | 31 August 2017

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Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance joins Europe PMC

We’re delighted to announce that the Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance joins Europe PMC as a new funder. This brings the Europe PMC funder family to 28 members. The Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance is an equal partnership initiative between the Wellcome Trust (UK) and the Department of Biotechnology (Government of India). The broad aim of the […]

Europe PMC team

 | 19 July 2017

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Blow your own trumpet: build an academic CV with ease

Europe PMC team

 | 19 July 2017

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Blow your own trumpet: build an academic CV with ease

Whether applying for a postdoc, a grant, or a tenure position, you will need to compile a publication list every now and then. There can be many ways to do so, from maintaining an Excel sheet, to building your profile on a faculty page. One option, however, requires minimum effort from your side and keeps […]

Europe PMC team

 | 12 May 2017

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Preprints and the ASAPBio “Central” Services

Europe PMC team

 | 12 May 2017

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Preprints and the ASAPBio “Central” Services

Jo McEntyre, EMBL-EBI; Thomas Lemberger, EMBO; Mark Patterson, eLife; Kristen Rattan, Collaborative Knowledge Foundation; Alfonso Valencia, Barcelona Supercomputer Centre. The use of preprints in the life sciences offers tantalising opportunities to change the way research results are communicated and reused, and the work of ASAPbio has been key in engaging the scientific community to promote […]

Europe PMC team

 | 28 April 2017

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Keeping track of published literature

Europe PMC team

 | 28 April 2017

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Keeping track of published literature

Modern scientists are busier than ever. Their typical days are filled not only with experimental work, but also with teaching, supervising, mentoring, grant applications, budget planning… The list goes on and on. No wonder there is barely any time left to stay on top of the field. Keeping track of published literature is made easier […]

Europe PMC team

 | 28 February 2017

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Sort it out: Sorting your search results with Europe PMC

Europe PMC team

 | 28 February 2017

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Sort it out: Sorting your search results with Europe PMC

Imagine you are exploring a new topic. You start by searching for relevant papers in the field. You type your query, click the search button, and end up with thousands of scientific articles, waiting to be read. How do you identify which papers to focus on? In Europe PMC, search results can be sorted differently […]

Europe PMC team

 | 20 December 2016

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Europe PMC – a year in review

Europe PMC team

 | 20 December 2016

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Europe PMC – a year in review

This has been a very busy and fruitful year for Europe PMC. With holidays approaching we take a look back at some of the Europe PMC achievements and milestones of 2016. We kicked off in January with a new, mobile-friendly homepage and information pages. The final design was based on user research in which we […]

Europe PMC team

 | 7 November 2016

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Growing connections: new Community Manager at Europe PMC

Europe PMC team

 | 7 November 2016

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Growing connections: new Community Manager at Europe PMC

What exactly is Europe PMC? How is it different from PubMed Central? What can I do with Europe PMC? Those are some of the questions I had myself when I first heard of Europe PMC. And now my task is to make sure that everyone can answer them easily. My name is Maria Levchenko and […]

Europe PMC team

 | 9 September 2016

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SciLite Annotations

Europe PMC team

 | 9 September 2016

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SciLite Annotations

Manual curation is vital for maintaining quality information in biological databases. However, with the exponential growth in biological data this approach is both challenging and time consuming. We wanted to create a scalable and sustainable process which could complement manual curation.    We recently launched a new service – SciLite – that allows text-mined annotations to be […]

Europe PMC team

 | 4 August 2016

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Academy of Medical Sciences joins Europe PMC

Europe PMC team

 | 4 August 2016

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Academy of Medical Sciences joins Europe PMC

We’re delighted to announce that the Academy of Medical Sciences has joined Europe PMC as a new funder, bringing the total funders to 27. The Academy of Medical Sciences represents the diverse spectrum of medical science – from basic research through clinical application to healthcare delivery. Their mission is to promote medical science and its […]

Europe PMC team

 | 2 August 2016

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Search improvements

Europe PMC team

 | 2 August 2016

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Search improvements

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke Sometimes the changes we release on Europe PMC are not immediately obvious! For the last few months we’ve been working hard to migrate our search to a technology called Solr. Our search has been using a Lucene-based index and customised query handler for […]

Europe PMC team

 | 9 June 2016

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5 ways to use the new Grant Finder

Europe PMC team

 | 9 June 2016

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5 ways to use the new Grant Finder

We’ve recently launched a re-designed Grant Finder on Europe PMC. You can use the Grant Finder to search over 56,700 biomedical research grants, awarded to the 23,000 Principal Investigators supported by the 26 Europe PMC funders. Learn 5 ways to use the new Grant Finder: 1. Find a collaborator As a researcher, or student, you can find potential […]

Europe PMC team

 | 18 April 2016

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Europe PMC, Wikipedia and Wikidata – opportunities for deeper integration

Europe PMC team

 | 18 April 2016

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Europe PMC, Wikipedia and Wikidata – opportunities for deeper integration

Since our blog post last summer on the inclusion of Wikipedia as an external links provider, we have been lucky to host an intern, Tom Arrow,  who has spent the last few months investigating possible further connections between Wikimedia projects and Europe PMC. This post highlights some of the ways Tom has been exploring these […]

Europe PMC team

 | 11 January 2016

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Open Author Profiles at Europe PMC: ORCIDs in Action

Europe PMC team

 | 11 January 2016

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Open Author Profiles at Europe PMC: ORCIDs in Action

We are excited to announce the launch of the Europe PMC author profile pages! Based on your ORCID record, they provide a graphical overview of your publications in Europe PMC and your citation rate over time. With over 2.2 million articles in Europe PMC linked to about 172,000 unique ORCIDs, we expect this feature to […]

Europe PMC team

 | 7 January 2016

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New Year, New Look for Europe PMC

Europe PMC team

 | 7 January 2016

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New Year, New Look for Europe PMC

You may notice that the Europe PMC website looks a little different. Perhaps a little clearer, neater, bolder? More importantly, we also hope that it is easier to use and to find key information about Europe PMC. Yes: we have given the Europe PMC website a makeover to celebrate the New Year! In particular, we […]

Europe PMC team

 | 23 October 2015

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#OAweek 2015: Open access in numbers

Europe PMC team

 | 23 October 2015

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#OAweek 2015: Open access in numbers

For Open Access week 2015, we tweeted some number-related facts about Europe PMC, reproduced with a little additional context here. 1.  #EuropePMC has over 3,447,632 full text articles, with over 1,134,397 in the #openaccess subset http://europepmc.org/FtpSite #OAweek #OAinNumbers As well as full text articles, Europe PMC contains all of the 25.4M PubMed abstracts, plus additional […]

Europe PMC team

 | 24 September 2015

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Calling all bookworms…

Europe PMC team

 | 24 September 2015

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Calling all bookworms…

Europe PMC Bookshelf provides free online access to books and documents in life sciences, healthcare and medical humanities. It includes full text reports from government agencies, like the UK’s National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) and the US’s Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and content allowed by participating publishers. Importantly it also includes scholarly monographs […]

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