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Summer Rosonovski

 | 31 January 2024

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Discovering reviewed preprints

Summer Rosonovski

 | 31 January 2024

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Discovering reviewed preprints

Preprinting has soared in popularity in the life sciences and is increasingly recognised as an excellent method to share research outputs quickly and freely. While preprints have gained popularity, an important consideration is ensuring their scientific quality. This prompted the development of platforms where researchers can comment on, evaluate, and review preprints. Preprint review benefits […]

Summer Rosonovski

 | 15 January 2024

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Europe PMC 2023: a year in review

Summer Rosonovski

 | 15 January 2024

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Europe PMC 2023: a year in review

As 2024 begins we reflect on the achievements our team made in 2023 to meet your needs as users. The team’s efforts were concentrated on building trust in preprints, open sourcing code, as well as expanding and improving text-mining capabilities. Preprint highlights  As part of Europe PMC’s commitment to accessible and discoverable scientific research, 2023 […]

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

 | 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

 | 25 October 2021

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Using the Europe PMC REST API to Study Open Access Publishing at the University of Virginia

Europe PMC team

 | 25 October 2021

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Using the Europe PMC REST API to Study Open Access Publishing at the University of Virginia

In May 2021, the University of Virginia Faculty Senate passed a set of Open Access Guidelines and Recommendations. This was the first university-wide resolution on the subject, though the School of Data Science adopted its own open access policy a few months earlier. At the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, we primarily serve the School […]

Europe PMC team

 | 9 February 2021

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Over 15,300 full text COVID-19 now available in Europe PMC

Europe PMC team

 | 9 February 2021

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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 team

 | 12 January 2021

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Research Square’s Full-text COVID-19 Preprints Now Indexed in Europe PMC

Europe PMC team

 | 12 January 2021

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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 […]

Europe PMC team

 | 18 March 2020

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Five stories showing how Europe PMC is used by the life sciences community

Europe PMC team

 | 18 March 2020

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Five stories showing how Europe PMC is used by the life sciences community

Europe PMC is a searchable database that allows access to life sciences publications worldwide including preprints and micropublications. Europe PMC offers cutting-edge tools to improve the discovery of articles around a topic of interest and provides links to the data behind the articles. In a commitment to open science, Europe PMC flags articles that are […]

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

 | 5 February 2019

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Europe PMC’s response to the implementation guidance of Plan S

Europe PMC team

 | 5 February 2019

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Europe PMC’s response to the implementation guidance of Plan S

Plan S is an initiative for immediate and full open access to scholarly research publications put forward by cOAlition S, an international consortium of research funders. In November 2018 specific implementation guidance on the Plan S principles has been released to the public with the aim of gathering feedback from various Plan S stakeholders, including […]

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

 | 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

 | 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

 | 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

 | 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

 | 2 December 2014

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Innovation in Digital Publishing: blog series

Europe PMC team

 | 2 December 2014

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Innovation in Digital Publishing: blog series

Guest post from Lisa O’Sullivan, Director, Center for the History of Medicine and Public Health By now it’s axiomatic that the digital world poses new opportunities and challenges for researchers, libraries, educational institutions, and publishers, which must be engaged with digital formats in a sustained and thoughtful way. The realities of this landscape encompass challenges to […]

Europe PMC team

 | 24 October 2014

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Europe PMC Open Access Facts: a celebration of all things Open Access for #OAweek2014

Europe PMC team

 | 24 October 2014

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Europe PMC Open Access Facts: a celebration of all things Open Access for #OAweek2014

Europe PMC does lots of things in the Open Access arena. For Open Access week 2014, we summarised some of them in a series of tweets over the course of the week. They are gathered together here: 2. Articles in #EuropePMC in the #openaccess set: http://europepmc.org/search?query=%28OPEN_ACCESS:y%29&page=1 … #OAfact #OAweek2014 3. Textminers: Access the full text #openaccess subset from […]

Europe PMC team

 | 18 July 2014

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Taylor & Francis Open Access Survey: translating values into licences

Europe PMC team

 | 18 July 2014

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Taylor & Francis Open Access Survey: translating values into licences

Guest post from Alex Green, Transformation Project Co-ordinator, Wellcome Trust Last month saw the publication of the 2014 Taylor & Francis Open Access Survey. Combining responses from just over 7,900 authors who published with Taylor & Francis in 2012 (9% of the total), this represents the opinions of authors from across the world in roughly […]

Europe PMC team

 | 7 July 2014

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The right to read is the right to mine: Text and data mining copyright exceptions introduced in the UK.

Europe PMC team

 | 7 July 2014

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The right to read is the right to mine: Text and data mining copyright exceptions introduced in the UK.

New copyright exceptions to text and data mining for non-commercial research have recently come into effect and this is welcome news for UK researchers and research, argues Ross Mounce. Here he provides a brief overview of the past issues discouraging text and data mining and what the future holds now that these exceptions have been […]

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

 | 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

 | 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 […]

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