Europe PMC, Wikipedia and Wikidata – opportunities for deeper integration
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 […]
Wiki’d!: Links from Europe PMC articles to Wikipedia
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 […]
A step towards open peer review
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 […]
Now available: use DOIs with our External Links Service
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, […]
Ever-widening resources at Europe PMC
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 […]
New Europe PMC External Links Service: enabling access to more resources
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 […]
Partnerships & funding
Europe PMC is a service of the Europe PMC Funders' Group, in partnership with EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI); and in cooperation with the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NCBI/NLM) . It includes content provided to the PubMed Central (NLM/PMC) archive by participating publishers.
