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Access to Understanding: The Real Prize
by Emma PewseyWinner, Access to Understanding 2013This post is particularly aimed at those of you who are thinking about entering the Access to Understanding competition who have never entered a...
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Refine your search with our new advanced search functionality...
With our new advanced search functionality, you can now do more, more easily.You can access the advanced search page here, or by clicking on the cog icon to the right of the search box.Key features...
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New Europe PMC plus Watch and Claim features
Europe PMC plus provides manuscript submission and grant reporting services for authors who are funded by Europe PMC funding organisations.The new Europe PMC plus features ‘Watch’ and ‘Claim’ allow...
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Choose which part of an article you want to search...
With our newly released feature, you can decide to search just the methods section, just the results section, just the acknowledgements section, or a combination of 16 article section categories that...
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Austrian Science Fund funding the metamorphosis of HSS open access journals
In 2012 the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research made funding available to help launch brand new open access journals in the humanities and social...
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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...
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Ever-widening resources at Europe PMC
Our External Links Service means that we link out to free resources that enrich our articles.We started with links out to data (at Dryad), to full text articles not otherwise available from Europe PMC...
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Measuring up the competition
The Access to Understanding science-writing competition 2014 attracted over 260 entrants. As an international competition we were thrilled to receive entries from 14 different countries. This map...
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Vote now for Access to Understanding’s first ever People’s Choice Award
We are pleased to announce the launch of our first ever People’s Choice Award for the Access to Understandingscience-writing competition! This award gives you - the public - the opportunity to read our...
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A night of winners!
Last night marked the Access to Understanding 2014 science-writing competition award ceremony.At its heart, the competition is a celebration. It celebrates the commitment and enthusiasm of early career...
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Can a garbage strike in nerve cells cause Parkinson's disease?
Image design: Serial/TrashNew research challenges common beliefs about the origin of the disease and draws attention to the nerve cells’ ability to tidy up.Parkinson’s disease is a devastating...
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"Can you read my mind?"
By Elizabeth Kirkham, PhD student at the University of SheffieldNote: Elizabeth was the winner of this year's Access to Understanding competition. Check back tomorrow to read her winning entry! It has...
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Beat box: How the brain processes rhythm
Image Source: Serial/TrashPeople have little trouble recognising and following the beat in a piece of music. We can even continue to play the beat in our minds once a song has finished. However,...
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A night at the Oscars
By Aidan Maartens, Post-doc student at the Gurdon Institute Note: Aidan was awarded third place in this year's Access to Understanding competition. Check back tomorrow to read his winning entry!...
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Populations within populations: drug resistance and malaria control
Image design: Serial/TrashMalaria claims a million lives a year, a majority of which are children, and threatens the lives of billions more within its tropical ranges. It is caused by Plasmodium, a...
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Out of my comfort zone
By Claire Sand, PhD student at King's College LondonNote: Claire Sand was highly commended for her entry this year. She was a joint second-place winner in Access to Understanding 2013 competition....
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Cutting the supply line: a new anti-cancer strategy?
Image Source: Serial/TrashAfter centuries of endeavour, scientists and doctors have made great strides towards improving cancer treatment. Nonetheless, while conventional therapy has undoubtedly saved...
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“So what exactly do you do?”
By Clare Finlay, a PhD student at the Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Disease, King's College LondonNote: Clare was highly commended for her entry. Check back tomorrow to read her brilliant summary on...
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A two-pronged attack to stop cancer in its tracks
Image Source: Serial/TrashCancer results from an accumulation of mistakes or abnormalities in genes that normally control cell survival, growth and migration. Genes are the instruction manual for our...
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World Health Organization joins Europe PMC
Additional new funders joining Europe PMC further expand the perspective and scope of the resource.Two new funders have today formally announced that they have joined the Europe PMC funders group, and...
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