Tracking Data Citations in Europe PMC
We are pleased to announce a new feature in Europe PMC that allows you to track data citations in the scientific literature. It is now possible to search for papers that cite database records for...
View ArticleLinking Articles Available in Europe PMC to your ORCID
Europe PMC is pleased to offer researchers the ability to link articles to an ORCID. The tool can also be found under the ‘Resources’ menu on the Europe PMC home page. In this interface you can link...
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Science Engagement Internship available
Science Engagement Intern – Europe PubMed CentralSalary is £16,049 per annum, pro rata for the duration of the internship Full Time (36 hours per week over normal business hours)Temporary Internship...
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How to weigh up claims about cures and treatments
Europe PMC is delighted to be involved with"I've got nothing to lose by trying it"- a guide by charity Sense about Science and partners that enables non-specialists to evaluate claims about treatments...
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Perspectives from the EMBO meeting
I was at the EMBO meeting in Amsterdam earlier this week, with a poster about Europe PMC.Before I get onto that, three brief observations from the conference:1. The plenary lecture was by Kai Simons,...
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New funders join Europe PMC
We're delighted that 4 new funders have joined Europe PMC, bringing the total to 24! The new funders are: The Association for International Cancer Research (AICR), who fund research into the causes of...
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5 annoying things about Open Access
To start, I should say that all at Europe PMC support Open Access. This is just a short list of some issues that can be frustrating…1. The often incorrect definition of green and gold routes to Open...
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Medical research charities and Open Access
This post is by our guest, DrStephen Pinfield, a Senior Lecturer in the Information School at the University of Sheffield. In this post he introduces us to his recent paper 'Medical research charities...
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Breast cancer: Two-face ER
By Luisa Robbez-Masson (Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University, London, UK)Short-listed for Access to Understanding 2013Oestrogen is a female hormone, produced in the ovaries, that stimulates...
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How heels help people walk
By David Daversa (Institute of Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK)Short-listed for Access to Understanding 2013 Most people may not think very much about reasons explaining the shape of our feet. For...
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“Will you just stand still?” Scientists gain insight into metastatic lung cancer
By Katarzyna Makowska (University of Leeds, UK)Short-listed for Access to Understanding 2013 Brian J. McHugh and colleagues from University of Edinburgh and King’s College London have discovered a...
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Genetic study reveals that a significant proportion of intelligence is inherited
by Robert Hoskin (University of Sheffield, UK)Short-listed for Access to Understanding 2013 To what extent do biological and environmental factors influence how an organism develops? This question,...
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Pregnancy complications expose future disease risk
by Gráinne Long (MRC Epidemiology Unit, Cambridge, UK)Short-listed for Access to Understanding 2013Cardiovascular disease (CVD)describes any disease that affects the heart or blood vessels, and is...
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A window into brain disease is only skin deep
by Nina Rzechorzek (University of Edinburgh, UK)Short-listed for Access to Understanding 2013How do nerve cells die?Many human diseases involve degeneration of the nervous system – a system of...
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Another brick in the wall
By Ian Le Guillou (University of Cambridge, UK)Awarded joint 2nd prize for Access to Understanding 2013A mutation that allows cells to grow out of control could also provide a new way to target and...
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Blood Vessels from Skin: The New Frontier in Tissue Engineering
By Claire Sand (King's College London, UK)Awarded joint 2nd prize for Access to Understanding 2013For years scientists have attempted to harness the potential of stem cells for repairing damaged blood...
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Hip, Hip, Hooray!
by Emma Pewsey (University of Cambridge, UK)Winner of Access to Understanding 2013X-rays can now be used not only to show where bones have fractured, but also to investigate why these bones break in...
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Science-writing competition now open!
Access to Understanding is a prestigious, international science-writing competition aimed at PhD students and early career post-doctoral researchers, developed by Europe PubMed Central and The British...
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Five reasons to enter Access to Understanding
We are thrilled that you are considering entering Europe PMC’s Access to Understanding science writing competition, in partnership with The British Library. If you are an early career researcher and...
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ORCIDs in Europe PMC
Following the development of the ORCID-based Article Claiming Tool (see this blog post), Europe PMC has now integrated ORCIDs into its website, search systems, and web services. This is proving useful...
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