Europe PMC 2023: a year in review
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 […]
Using the Europe PMC REST API to Study Open Access Publishing at the University of Virginia
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 […]
Unlocking the open – Europe PMC integrates with Unpaywall
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, […]
Why every researcher should care about open citations
Why every researcher should care about open citations
What happens when you cite someone’s research? As you write a research publication you include references to the work of your fellow researchers. Once the article is published in a scientific journal the readers may view the reference list to verify cited information or perhaps discover additional studies relevant to their topic. But have you […]
SciLite Annotations
SciLite Annotations
Manual curation is vital for maintaining quality information in biological databases. However, with the exponential growth in biological data this approach is both challenging and time consuming. We wanted to create a scalable and sustainable process which could complement manual curation. We recently launched a new service – SciLite – that allows text-mined annotations to be […]
Europe PMC moves into 3-dimensions
Europe PMC moves into 3-dimensions
Europe PMC has added protein and chemical structures from Protein Data Bank (PDB) and ChEBI via the BioEntities tab. There are some amazing examples in this paper, which was a collaboration between scientists in America, the Netherlands and UK: ‘Supersite of immune vulnerability on the glycosylated face of HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein gp120’ The paper investigates […]
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.
