Europe PMC improves discoverability of preprints
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 […]
Over 15,300 full text COVID-19 now available in Europe PMC
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 in 2020: a year review
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 […]
Research Square’s Full-text COVID-19 Preprints Now Indexed in Europe PMC
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 […]
Enriching Europe PMC publications with Metagenomics annotations
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 […]
Europe PMC to include the full text of COVID-19 preprints
Europe PMC to include the full text of COVID-19 preprints
In this pandemic, researchers have responded by publishing results rapidly, often through preprints. In fact, up to half of the publications in Europe PMC on COVID-19 are preprints rather than peer-reviewed journal articles. Currently, the full text of these preprints are scattered as PDFs on preprint servers, or, available as a non-standard set of documents […]
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.
