Preprints and the ASAPBio "Central" Services
Jo McEntyre, EMBL-EBI; Thomas Lemberger, EMBO; Mark Patterson, eLife; Kristen Rattan, Collaborative Knowledge Foundation; Alfonso Valencia, Barcelona Supercomputer Centre. The use of preprints in the...
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Whether applying for a postdoc, a grant, or a tenure position, you will need to compile a publication list every now and then. There can be many ways to do so, from maintaining an Excel sheet, to...
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We're delighted to announce that the Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance joins Europe PMC as a new funder. This brings the Europe PMC funder family to 28 members.The Wellcome Trust/DBT India Allianceis...
View ArticleHarness the power of text-mining for biomedical discovery: introducing Europe...
We are excited to announce the launch of Europe PMC Annotations API, which provides programmatic access to annotations text-mined from biomedical abstracts and open access full text articles. The...
View ArticlePubMed Central Canada is retiring: response from Europe PMC
The PubMed Central International (PMCI) network is a collaborative effort between the PMCI repositories, publishers, and funding organisations that wish to preserve and provide free access to journal...
View ArticleLooking back, looking forward: a year in review
As 2017 concludes, we reflect on Europe PMC’s landmark achievements. Let’s take a closer look at the highlights of this year.Cutting-edge search and viewing mechanismsSearch results now display...
View ArticleGet the essence: introducing search snippets
Reading scientific papers can be very time consuming. So you should not waste a minute searching for the relevant literature. Thanks to the cutting-edge search technologies Europe PMC helps you find...
View ArticleWhy every researcher should care about open citations
What happens when you cite someone’s research?As you write a research publication you include references to the work of your fellow researchers. Once the article is published in a scientific journal...
View ArticleUnlocking the open - Europe PMC integrates with Unpaywall
It’s always frustrating to hit a paywall when you stumble across an exciting article.Until recently, for many of us the only legal way of getting hold of the publication was to purchase the paper in...
View ArticleSwiss National Science Foundation joins Europe PMC
We're delighted to announce that the Swiss National Science Foundation joins Europe PMC as a new funder. This brings the Europe PMC funder family to 29 members.The Swiss National Science Foundation...
View ArticleEurope PMC and the Research Excellence Framework 2021 (REF 2021)
Several questions have come into our Helpdesk regarding how articles deposited in Europe PMC count towards the REF 2021. We thought it is worth clarifying a few of the questions that have been...
View ArticleEurope PMC and Coko Announce Partnership
The Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (CoKo) and Europe PMC are excited to announce a new partnership to develop web-based, open source content and workflow management components that will enable...
View ArticlePreprints in Europe PMC: reducing friction for discoverability
From July 2018, the Europe PMC repository will start indexing preprints. Making preprints discoverable through Europe PMC will make the science reported in preprints more widely discoverable and...
View ArticleAnnouncing new Europe PMC Beta!
We are always listening to what our users have to say. And this week we are happy to present you a Beta version of Europe PMC with lots of improvements based on extensive user feedback. Europe PMC Beta...
View ArticleMapping out the path to data
Data availability statements in biomedical literatureEvery research paper is a story about data. Over 2.5 million articles in Europe PMC contain data of all sorts, from microscopy images to bird song...
View ArticleBringing PubMed Commons to Europe PMC
Scientific communication does not stop at the moment of publication. Scientific discussions in the form of post-publication peer review can provide valuable insights for published articles, bring up an...
View ArticleEurope PMC’s response to the implementation guidance of Plan S
Plan S is an initiative for immediate and full open access to scholarly research publications put forward bycOAlition S, an international consortium of research funders.In November 2018...
View ArticlePrepare for the new Europe PMC plus
Europe PMC is getting ready to release an upgraded version of Europe PMC plus, a system for PIs supported by Europe PMC funders to submit accepted manuscripts for inclusion in Europe PMC and PMC. The...
View ArticleMaking science open with the new Europe PMC plus
We are delighted to announce the launch of the new Europe PMC Plus - the manuscript submission system for authors supported by Europe PMC funders.Europe PMC is the repository of choice for 29...
View ArticleSubmission system for text-mined annotations
From algorithms to the benchText-mining holds the promise of helping researchers to overcome information overload. It is a familiar premise: an avalanche of scientific knowledge is being produced and...
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