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Summer Rosonovski

 | 11 May 2026

 | 3 MINS READ

 | Editor's pick

 | Guest post

From text to traceability: RRID integration in Europe PMC

Summer Rosonovski

 | 11 May 2026

 | 3 MINS READ

 | Editor's pick

 | Guest post

From text to traceability: RRID integration in Europe PMC

Scientific articles are theoretically rich in details about antibodies, cell lines, model organisms, or software tools. However, these details are often poorly reported and remain locked in unstructured text, making it difficult, or impossible, to reproduce experiments. Mentions are often ambiguous, inconsistent, or difficult to track across studies. This is where Research Resource Identifiers (RRIDs) […]

Europe PMC team

 | 4 June 2020

 | 4 MINS READ

Global grant IDs in Europe PMC

Europe PMC team

 | 4 June 2020

 | 4 MINS READ

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 […]

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