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Challenging language barriers
By Lucia Aronica, Max F Perutz Laboratories, AustriaNote: Lucia won the first ever Access to Understanding People's Choice award. Tomorrow the blog will feature her popular piece!My research field is...
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How healthy eating could starve out cancer
Image Source: Serial/TrashSkin is not the only thing to wrinkle with age. Our genes also show signs of ageing – a process that can lead to cancer. A new study indicates that healthy eating can prevent...
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Simplicity is sometimes best
By Elizabeth McAdam, a postdoctoral researcher at the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, UKNote: Elizabeth was awarded second place in this year's Access to Understanding competition. Check...
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Reforming rheumatoid arthritis treatment: a step in the right direction
Image Source: Serial/TrashThere is good news for rheumatoid arthritis sufferers: scientists are a step closer to predicting which patients will benefit the most from a particular type of drug using...
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Now available: use DOIs with our External Links Service
Our External Links Service enables links to be created from articles on Europe PMC to free third-party resources that enrich our articles. Since launching the service last July we've been joined by...
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A divorce in development: single regulators can raise arteries alone
Image Source: Serial/TrashUnderstanding how blood vessels are born and propagated is vital for the treatment of a whole host of diseases including heart disorders, diabetes and cancer. Scientists from...
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The TBPH gene – Do neurodegenerative diseases have a fly in the ointment?
Image design: Serial/TrashA number of genes have been implicated in neurodegenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neurone disease, and Frontotemporal lobar...
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Let’s (not) Get Physical: the Effect of Spironolactone on Muscle Strength in...
Image Source: Serial/TrashLife expectancy has increased continuously over the past several decades, and with it, a host of new age-related ailments have emerged as contemporary medical issues. Muscle...
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The right to read is the right to mine: Text and data mining copyright...
New copyright exceptions to text and data mining for non-commercial research have recently come into effect and this is welcome news for UK researchers and research, argues Ross Mounce. Here he...
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Taylor & Francis Open Access Survey: translating values into licences
Guest post from Alex Green, Transformation Project Co-ordinator, Wellcome TrustLast month saw the publication of the 2014 Taylor & Francis Open Access Survey. Combining responses from just over...
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New export options now available: use Europe PMC to populate your...
Europe PMC has released new export format options, indicated in the image below:The RIS export format is typically used by Reference Manager and EndNote bibliographic applications for example, so you...
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Using Europe PMC’s export options as research funder
Recently Europe PMC released new export format options, to help users get Europe PMC’s wealth of metadata (and our open access papers) into the file formats they like to use.We’ve already posted about...
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Linking grants to your publication
It is important that you add all appropriate grant information to relevant papers on Europe PMC to support:Grant ReportingCompliance with Funder open access policiesData Consistency Resource...
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Evidence Finder: testing, testing!
Evidence Finder (EvF) provides a new way of searching Europe PMC that will help you find the most relevant articles more quickly. By surfacing “facts” based on biological concepts, EvF enhances the...
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Europe PMC Open Access Facts: a celebration of all things Open Access for...
Europe PMC does lots of things in the Open Access arena. For Open Access week 2014, we summarised some of them in a series of tweets over the course of the week. They are gathered together here:2....
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Science-writing competition now open!
Enter a prestigious, international science-writing competition aimed at PhD students and early career post-doctoral researchers.The winner will receive an iPad and have their entry published in eLife....
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Guest post from Lisa O’Sullivan, Director, Center for the History of Medicine and Public HealthBy now it’s axiomatic that the digital world poses new opportunities and challenges for researchers,...
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Access to Understanding: Statistically Speaking
Access to Understanding is getting bigger and better every year. The 2015 science-writing competition attracted over 300 entries from all over the world. But don’t take my word for it, explore the map...
View ArticleEurope PMC’s new unified search system: you can have it all!
Europe PMC provides a single search interface for 30 million abstracts (including PubMed) and over 3 million full text articles. However, until now, the world of abstracts and the world of full-text...
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Health care and health policy reviews now available: Cochrane Database of...
More than 300 Cochrane Systematic Reviews, funded under the 2007 and 2010 UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Programme Grant programmes, are available on Europe PMC.This has been a...
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