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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

 | 11 June 2019

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Submission system for text-mined annotations

Europe PMC team

 | 11 June 2019

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Submission system for text-mined annotations

From algorithms to the bench Text-mining holds the promise of helping researchers to overcome information overload. It is a familiar premise: an avalanche of scientific knowledge is being produced and shared. Teaching machines to “read” might soon be the only manageable way to digest large amounts of information into useful facts. To extract bits of […]

Europe PMC team

 | 4 December 2018

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Bringing PubMed Commons to Europe PMC

Europe PMC team

 | 4 December 2018

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Bringing PubMed Commons to Europe PMC

Scientific communication does not stop at the moment of publication. Scientific discussions in the form of post-publication peer review can provide valuable insights for published articles, bring up an alternative research perspective, or even present updates for published research. At Europe PMC it’s part of our mission to support innovation in scientific publishing, and we […]

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

 | 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

 | 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

 | 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

 | 17 June 2015

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Wiki’d!: Links from Europe PMC articles to Wikipedia

Europe PMC team

 | 17 June 2015

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Wiki’d!: Links from Europe PMC articles to Wikipedia

Europe PMC has a new provider of External Links: links from articles on Europe PMC to related content on 3rd party websites. Our most recent addition provides links from over 300,000 articles to entries in Wikipedia: the free encyclopaedia. For example, from the article ‘Spinal subdural abscess following epidural steroid injection’, you can link (via […]

Europe PMC team

 | 10 June 2015

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A step towards open peer review

Europe PMC team

 | 10 June 2015

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A step towards open peer review

Peer review is the cornerstone of how we decide what research to publish. As currently implemented, it generally consists of two or three referees giving anonymous comments on a research article prior to publication … or … rejection. Much has been written about the failings of this process (a very small sample of illustrative references […]

Europe PMC team

 | 16 May 2014

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Now available: use DOIs with our External Links Service

Europe PMC team

 | 16 May 2014

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Now available: use DOIs with our External Links Service

Our External Links Service enables links to be created from articles on Europe PMC to free third-party resources that enrich our articles. Since launching the service last July we’ve been joined by providers who have set up links to an ever widening range of useful resources, including data underlying articles, press releases and plain English summaries, […]

Europe PMC team

 | 13 February 2014

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Ever-widening resources at Europe PMC

Europe PMC team

 | 13 February 2014

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Ever-widening resources at Europe PMC

Our External Links Service means that we link out to free resources that enrich our articles. We started with links out to data (at Dryad), to full text articles not otherwise available from Europe PMC (at the Bielefeld University Institutional Repository) and to training courses for data resources (by Train online by EBI). Since launching the service last July we’ve […]

Europe PMC team

 | 3 September 2013

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Science Engagement Internship available

Europe PMC team

 | 3 September 2013

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Science Engagement Internship available

Science Engagement Intern – Europe PubMed Central Salary is £16,049 per annum, pro rata for the duration of the internship Full Time (36 hours per week over normal business hours) Temporary Internship for up to 6 months St Pancras, London   This is an exciting opportunity to help deliver a successful international science-writing competition.   […]

Europe PMC team

 | 18 July 2013

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New Europe PMC External Links Service: enabling access to more resources

Europe PMC team

 | 18 July 2013

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New Europe PMC External Links Service: enabling access to more resources

In an exciting new development, Europe PMC now provides direct links from articles to relevant externally held information, and enables third parties to suggest relevant resources that enrich our existing content. The External Links Service is a mechanism for people to publish links from articles in Europe PMC to related information or tools. It could be […]

Europe PMC team

 | 11 July 2011

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UKPMC Engagement Manager vacancy

Europe PMC team

 | 11 July 2011

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UKPMC Engagement Manager vacancy

Engagement Manager UK PubMed Central British Library St Pancras, London UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) is a unique, innovative online resource offering free access to full text journal articles, abstracts, clinical guidelines, theses and biological databases for biomedical and health researchers. As UKPMC enters an exciting new phase, we need an experienced biomedical researcher who will […]

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