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Vote now for the Access to Understanding People’s Choice Award
We are excited to announce voting has now opened for Access to Understanding’sPeople’s Choice Award!The People’s Choice Award is an important part of the competition – since the entries are written...
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Access to Understanding 2015: Who Won What?
With the Access to Understanding awards ceremony just about wrapping up, we can now announce the winners…First place was awarded to Philippa Matthews for her entry ‘Rolling back malaria: A journey...
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The Europe PMC funders group is expanding...
We're delighted that 2 new funders have joined Europe PMC, bringing the total to 28! The new funders are:Alzheimer's Society is a membership organisation, which works to improve the quality of life of...
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A step towards open peer review
Peer review is the cornerstone of how we decide what research to publish. As currently implemented, it generally consists of two or three referees giving anonymous comments on a research article prior...
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Wiki’d!: Links from Europe PMC articles to Wikipedia
Europe PMC has a new provider of External Links: links from articles on Europe PMC to related content on 3rd party websites. Our most recent addition provides links from over 300,000 articles to...
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IRIS, educated – more accurately, populated…
“Education doesn't make you happy. And what is freedom? We don't become happy just because we are free, if we are. Or because we have been educated, if we have. But because education may be the means...
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‘Let me count the ways.’
Title quote from ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’, Sonnet 43, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.Our relationship with ORCID personal identifiers blooms in a number of ways:ORCID WizardEurope PMC was an early...
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Calling all bookworms...
Europe PMC Bookshelf provides free online access to books and documents in life sciences, healthcare and medical humanities. It includes full text reports from government agencies, like the UK's...
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#OAweek 2015: Open access in numbers
For Open Access week 2015, we tweeted some number-related facts about Europe PMC, reproduced with a little additional context here.1. #EuropePMC has over 3,447,632 full text articles, with over...
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New Year, New Look for Europe PMC
You may notice that theEurope PMC website looks a little different. Perhaps a little clearer, neater, bolder? More importantly, we also hope that it is easier to use and to find key information about...
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Open Author Profiles at Europe PMC: ORCIDs in Action
We are excited to announce the launch of the Europe PMC author profile pages! Based on your ORCID record, they provide a graphical overview of your publications in Europe PMC and your citation rate...
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Europe PMC, Wikipedia and Wikidata - opportunities for deeper integration
Since our blog post last summer on the inclusion of Wikipedia as an external links provider, we have been lucky to host an intern, Tom Arrow, who has spent the last few months investigating possible...
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5 ways to use the new Grant Finder
We've recently launched a re-designed Grant Finder on Europe PMC. You can use the Grant Finder to search over 56,700 biomedical research grants, awarded to the 23,000 Principal Investigators supported...
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Search improvements
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."- Arthur C. ClarkeSometimes the changes we release on Europe PMC are not immediately obvious! For the last few months we've been...
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Academy of Medical Sciences joins Europe PMC
We're delighted to announce that the Academy of Medical Sciences has joined Europe PMC as a new funder, bringing the total funders to 27.The Academy of Medical Sciences represents the diverse spectrum...
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SciLite Annotations
Manual curation is vital for maintaining quality information in biological databases. However, with the exponential growth in biological data this approach is both challenging and time consuming. We...
View ArticleGrowing connections: new Community Manager at Europe PMC
What exactly is Europe PMC? How is it different from PubMed Central? What can I do with Europe PMC?Those are some of the questions I had myself when I first heard of Europe PMC. And now my task is to...
View ArticleEurope PMC - a year in review
This has been a very busy and fruitful year for Europe PMC. With holidays approaching we take a look back at some of the Europe PMC achievements and milestones of 2016.We kicked off in January with a...
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Sort it out: Sorting your search results with Europe PMC
Imagine you are exploring a new topic. You start by searching for relevant papers in the field. You type your query, click the search button, and end up with thousands of scientific articles, waiting...
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Keeping track of published literature
Modern scientists are busier than ever. Their typical days are filled not only with experimental work, but also with teaching, supervising, mentoring, grant applications, budget planning… The list goes...
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