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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

 | 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

 | 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

 | 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 […]

Europe PMC team

 | 4 June 2020

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Global grant IDs in Europe PMC

Europe PMC team

 | 4 June 2020

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Global grant IDs in Europe PMC

In September 2019 we welcomed the first open, global grant IDs to Europe PMC. Wellcome became the first funder to register DOIs for their grant awards with Crossref. Grant metadata is provided by Europe PMC, and in a pilot integration, the grant IDs were featured in a PLOS ONE publication. This is a very exciting […]

Europe PMC team

 | 9 April 2020

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MQ: Transforming Mental Health and Pancreatic Cancer UK join Europe PMC

Europe PMC team

 | 9 April 2020

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MQ: Transforming Mental Health and Pancreatic Cancer UK join Europe PMC

We’re delighted to announce that MQ: Transforming Mental Health and Pancreatic Cancer UK join Europe PMC as a new funder. This brings the Europe PMC funder family to 31 members. MQ: Transforming Mental Health is an international mental health research charity that funds multidisciplinary research into mental health across biological, psychological and social sciences. With […]

Europe PMC team

 | 25 February 2020

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Europe PMC Funders’ Dashboard

Europe PMC team

 | 25 February 2020

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Europe PMC Funders’ Dashboard

What research outputs did you fund? Research funders need to track the outcomes of research that they have funded. To facilitate this Europe PMC has recently developed the Funders’ Dashboard, a new feature available for Europe PMC funders, which displays the profile and impact of the research publications in Europe PMC that they have funded. […]

Europe PMC team

 | 9 July 2019

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Measuring the value and impact of Europe PMC

Europe PMC team

 | 9 July 2019

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Measuring the value and impact of Europe PMC

The value and impact of Europe PMC were recently evaluated by the independent policy research and consulting organisation, Technopolis, to assess how the platform has been serving the research community. The evaluation was based on document review, surveys, user data and interviews. Who uses Europe PMC, what for and why? Europe PMC has a global […]

Europe PMC team

 | 1 May 2019

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Making science open with the new Europe PMC plus

Europe PMC team

 | 1 May 2019

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Making science open with the new Europe PMC plus

We are delighted to announce the launch of the new Europe PMC Plus – the manuscript submission system for authors supported by Europe PMC funders. Europe PMC is the repository of choice for 29 international life sciences funders, who recommend or require that publications arising from the research they fund, are made openly available via […]

Europe PMC team

 | 25 March 2019

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Prepare for the new Europe PMC plus

Europe PMC team

 | 25 March 2019

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Prepare for the new Europe PMC plus

Europe PMC is getting ready to release an upgraded version of Europe PMC plus, a system for PIs supported by Europe PMC funders to submit accepted manuscripts for inclusion in Europe PMC and PMC. The new version of Europe PMC plus has an improved design, and new features for creating and reviewing manuscript submissions. The […]

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

 | 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

 | 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

 | 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

 | 1 May 2015

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The Europe PMC funders’ group is expanding…

Europe PMC team

 | 1 May 2015

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The Europe PMC funders’ group is expanding…

We’re delighted that 2 new funders have joined Europe PMC, bringing the total to 28! The new funders are: Alzheimer’s Society is a membership organisation, which works to improve the quality of life of people affected by dementia in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Many of their 20,000 members have personal experience of dementia, as […]

Europe PMC team

 | 26 September 2014

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Linking grants to your publication

Europe PMC team

 | 26 September 2014

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Linking grants to your publication

It is important that you add all appropriate grant information to relevant papers on Europe PMC to support: Grant Reporting Compliance with Funder open access policies Data Consistency     Resource Discovery Author Claiming There are a variety of routes that enable grants to be linked to papers in Europe PMC.  We have outlined these below […]

Europe PMC team

 | 20 August 2014

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Using Europe PMC’s export options as research funder

Europe PMC team

 | 20 August 2014

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Using Europe PMC’s export options as research funder

Recently Europe PMC released new export format options, to help users get Europe PMC’s wealth of metadata (and our open access papers) into the file formats they like to use. We’ve already posted about how useful this function is for researchers, but it’s great for research funders too. Funders can convert their carefully constructed search […]

Europe PMC team

 | 1 May 2014

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World Health Organization joins Europe PMC

Europe PMC team

 | 1 May 2014

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World Health Organization joins Europe PMC

Additional new funders joining Europe PMC further expand the perspective and scope of the resource. Two new funders have today formally announced that they have joined the Europe PMC funders group, and in doing so the outputs of the research they fund will be freely available via Europe PMC. This brings the total Europe PMC […]

Europe PMC team

 | 20 December 2013

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New Europe PMC plus Watch and Claim features

Europe PMC team

 | 20 December 2013

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New Europe PMC plus Watch and Claim features

Europe PMC plus provides manuscript submission and grant reporting services for authors who are funded by Europe PMC funding organisations. The new Europe PMC plus features ‘Watch’ and ‘Claim’ allow users to monitor progress of manuscripts for which they are not a submitter and enables them to take over reviewing author duties for submissions that […]

Europe PMC team

 | 24 October 2013

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Medical research charities and Open Access

Europe PMC team

 | 24 October 2013

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Medical research charities and Open Access

This post is by our guest, Dr Stephen Pinfield, a Senior Lecturer in the Information School at the University of Sheffield. In this post he introduces us to his recent paper ‘Medical research charities and open access’ where he reports on a survey he carried out to assess the Open Access (OA) policies and activities of […]

Europe PMC team

 | 21 October 2013

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5 annoying things about Open Access

Europe PMC team

 | 21 October 2013

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5 annoying things about Open Access

To start, I should say that all at Europe PMC support Open Access. This is just a short list of some issues that can be frustrating… 1.    The often incorrect definition of green and gold routes to Open Access I am a relative newcomer to Open Access having only been working in this area for a […]

Europe PMC team

 | 1 October 2013

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New funders join Europe PMC

Europe PMC team

 | 1 October 2013

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New funders join Europe PMC

We’re delighted that 4 new funders have joined Europe PMC, bringing the total to 24! The new funders are: Worldwide Cancer Research (formerly AICR), who fund research into the causes of cancer. The AICR is UK-based, but funds projects all around the world, supporting the best scientists wherever they are. Breast Cancer Campaign, who fund research into […]

Europe PMC team

 | 29 May 2013

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New route to access grant data

Europe PMC team

 | 29 May 2013

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New route to access grant data

Europe PMC has released a new GRant Information SysTem (GRIST) that is loaded with grant data from the 20 Europe PMC funders. It includes all of the data provided by the Funders from the beginning of the UKPMC service (which was rebranded to Europe PMC during 2012). This equates to 44,000 grant records relating to […]

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