It is important that you add all appropriate grant information to relevant papers on Europe PMC to support:
- Grant Reporting
- Compliance with Funder open access policies
- Data Consistency
- Resource Discovery
- Author Claiming
There are a variety of routes that enable grants to be linked to papers in Europe PMC. We have outlined these below to enable authors and Funders to choose the most appropriate route(s) to ensure that the grants used to support their research are correctly attributed:
1. Using the Europe PMC plus Grant Linking module
This option is only available to PIs (Principal Investigators) of grants from the Europe PMC Funders. Log in to Europe PMC plus and select the Grant Linking tab to associate papers with your grants.
Note: Linking grants to PubMed papers does not signify compliance to your Funder’s mandate. Full text versions must either be deposited directly by the Publisher or self-archived. See http://europepmc.org/FAQs#respubsfor more information.
2. When self-archiving author manuscripts via Europe PMC plus
All appropriate associations can be made as part of the submission process of Europe PMC Funder grantholder research articles.
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3. Bulk grant linking
This option is open to members of the Europe PMC Funders group, who can submit a list of articles (identified by PubMed ID) and grant IDs. We will then create the appropriate grant-article associations, which will display in both Europe PMC and PubMed.
4. When the paper is indexed by NLM indexers
This option only applies where the research has been supported by one of the original eight funders of Europe PMC. Grants will automatically be added to PubMed papers during the indexing process if the grant has been correctly acknowledged in the paper.
5. Direct pipelines
Grant-article associations are collated from various sources, including Researchfish; all associations are applied to Europe PMC and validated ones pushed through to PubMed.
You can search Europe PMC using a grant ID to find all papers associated with a particular grant number, using either the advanced search form, or the the following search syntax:
Europe PMC also has a Grant Lookup Tool which holds detailed, consolidated grant information across all Funders. The data is also available via an API.
For more information, please contact the Europe PMC Helpdesk at:
helpdesk@EuropePMC.org
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