Europe PMC had a stand, manned by me (Europe PMC engagement manager) and Cecy Marden (Europe PMC funders’ group project manager), and we had a steady stream of visitors over the course of the day.
The biggest question we were asked was ‘Why should I use Europe PMC – isn’t it just about European research?’ The really quick answer is, no, it’s global.
In a little bit more detail. A single search in Europe PMC covers:
· The PubMed abstracts (22.5 million and counting)
· Over 2.5 million PMC full text articles
· Nearly 5 million biological patent records
· Plus additional relevant content
You can distinguish this content using the Popular content sets optionon the right of the search results page.
Of course there are lots of other reasons why it’s worth taking a look, but hopefully you’re reassured that you can discover all that you would expect from PubMed and more…