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Finding preprints across many different platforms can be difficult. Here we explain how Europe PMC has built a database of life science preprints.

Maria Levchenko

Compared to preprints, publishing is like waiting for your favourite band to drop a new album. Whether it takes months or years, it can feel like an eternity. Preprints are a scientific equivalent of a surprise single release – an early version of a research paper prior to peer review. Born in the 1960s in the physics domain, preprints gave researchers a way to share their work with the world in real time.

How we built a database of preprints

[The report of the Working Group chaired by Dame Janet Finch about Expanding Access to Published Research Findings has been published. This recommends a programme of action to enable more people to read and use the publications arising from research. Better, faster communication of research results will bring benefits for public services and for economic growth.

Reactions to the Finch report on expanding access

As part of the text-mining work being undertaken by European Bioinformatics Institutue [EBI] and The National Centre for Text Mining [NaCTeM], it is now possible to get a list of all chemicals cited in a full-text article at UKPMC and link through to Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) database for further information. By way of example, on viewing the article at http://ukpmc.ac.uk/abstract/PMC/PMC1828400

Links to chemical compounds now enabled

Over 240 National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) trainees recently attended the 4th Annual meeting at the Midlands Hotel in Manchester (November 30th – December 1st). Despite the freezing temperatures outside, the atmosphere inside was warm, welcoming and friendly. The term ‘trainee’ is probably quite inappropriate, as it evokes the image of fresh young graduates.

UK PubMed Central report from NIHR ‘trainee’ meeting

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 ingest and processing of manuscripts. The system will be built on Coko’s PubSweet technology framework and will contribute to the vision of creating modern, digital-first technologies that improve the speed of research.

Europe PMC and Coko Announce Partnership

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Wiki’d!: Links from Europe PMC articles to Wikipedia

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New Europe PMC External Links Service: enabling access to more resources

The graphic above shows articles available in UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) – read-only articles: green; Open Access articles: blue – compared to the number of abstracts in PubMed.

Open Access, UKPMC and PubMed: how are we doing?

In October 2006 the Wellcome Trust become the world’s first research funder to develop an open access policy that required the research outputs, that arose from its funding, to be made freely available.

Open access at the Wellcome Trust: 5 years on

As of Wednesday 23rd June, the UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) Open Beta site will go into full production mode, replacing the ‘Classic’ service available at http://ukpmc.ac.uk.  Unveiled at a showcase event at the British Library earlier this year, the UKPMC Beta site provides users with a single point of access to: 1.8 million+ full text, peer reviewed published journal articles covering all fields of biomedical and health research (the UK PubMed

UKPMC  Beta service moves into production

At a poster session at the Open Repositories Conference 2009, Peter Millington (Technical Development Officer st Sherpa) presented data on the number of publishers/journals used by Wellcome-funded authors that offered a Wellcome-compliant OA publishing policy. Taking a cohort of 3766 papers published in 901 different journals, Millington shows that potential compliance increased from 70% in 2006 to 87% in 2009.

Journals compliant with Wellcome mandate

What research outputs did you fund?

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Europe PMC Funders’ Dashboard

Users of the UK PubMed Central Manuscript Submission System (UKMSS) will soon be able to use a new service – ‘My UKPMC’ – to report on the outcomes of any grant funded by any one of the UKPMC Funders’ Group member organisations.

UK PubMed Central – enabling easier reporting on the outcomes of grants

[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 Annotations API is a part of Europe PMC’s programmatic tools suit and is freely available on the Europe PMC website: ]{style=“font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;

Harness the power of text-mining for biomedical discovery: introducing Europe PMC Annotations API

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Ever-widening resources at Europe PMC

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Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) have announced that the prices for site licence access to The EMBO Journal and EMBO reports will be reduced by 9% in 2010, reflecting the increased publication of Open Access content in 2008.

Open Access uptake prompts 9% price reduction for The EMBO Journal and EMBO Reports

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As a result of the mandates

[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 further connections between Wikimedia projects and Europe PMC.

Europe PMC, Wikipedia and Wikidata – opportunities for deeper integration

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The European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) has been awarded the contract to run and lead the development of UK PubMed Central (UKPMC), the free online literature resource for life science researchers.

European Bioinformatics Institute to lead UK PubMed Central

The British Journal of Cancer – owned by Cancer Research UK (CR-UK) – has chosen to implement the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ for articles published under the BJC OPEN initiative. This licence permits distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

British Journal of Cancer — new licence for OA content

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Acromine: a new tool is featured on Europe PMC labs

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 mechanisms   Search results now display snippets – fragments of the publication text that contain matches to your query. Snippets highlight the search term in its context, making it easier to identify the relevant content you were looking for.

Looking back, looking forward: a year in review

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Pregnancy complications expose future disease risk

Earlier this month HEFCE invited advice on developing their open access policy in the post-2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF).  Both EMBL-EBI, who run the Europe PubMed Central (Europe PMC) service, and the UK members of the Europe PMC Funders’ Group, strongly support HEFCE’s movement towards requiring that all outputs submitted to the post-2014 REF are published open access.

Institutional and Subject-Specific Repositories: Responding to HEFCE’s Call for Advice on Open Access

In response to user feedback, the UKPMC search results page now displays all the authors associated with any published article.  Prior to this change, the search results page had shown just the first seven authors, with the full set of authors only being visible from the abstract and full-text views.  Further feedback on the UKPMC service is welcomed.

All authors now displayed in UKPMC search results

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Perspectives from the EMBO meeting

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the National Research Council’s Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI), and the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) have announced a three-way partnership to establish PubMed Central Canada (PMC Canada).  “PMC Canada is a powerful tool that will help researchers build upon one another’s work and speed up the discovery and innovation process to address important

PMC Canada — will launch in Autumn 2009

Each of the eight funders associated with UKPMC has a Funders Home Page from which you can find all papers in UKPMC which are associated with any of these funding bodies. In addition to be able to view these full-text articles, the article metadata can be exported in csv or xml. This metadata can also be sorted in various ways (author, title, date) and it is possible to limit the output to author manuscripts or publisher depositions.

Finding funder attributed papers in UKPMC

The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) – publishers of journals such as Cancer Research and Molecular Cancer Research – have announced the launch of their manuscript deposition service.

American Association for Cancer Research – Manuscript deposition service

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 by the 26 Europe PMC funders. Learn 5 ways to use the new Grant Finder:

 1. Find a collaborator

As a researcher, or student, you can find potential collaborators / PIs working in a related research area.

5 ways to use the new Grant Finder

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[By now it’s axiomatic that the digital world poses new opportunities and challenges for researchers, libraries, educational institutions, and publishers, which must be engaged with digital formats in a sustained and

Innovation in Digital Publishing: blog series

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The Importance of Jargon

Summer Rosonovski

Europe PMC and Open Targets develop Lit-OTAR framework unearthing over 48 million unique associations that can be leveraged for drug discovery   Identifying drug targets is a critical and intricate part of drug discovery. This requires scientists to look at many sources of evidence. They use them to find links between drugs, targets, and diseases.

Revolutionising drug discovery with deep learning

**Europe PMC POSI update – 2 years on **   Two years have sailed by since Europe PMC adopted the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI) in February 2021. POSI is a set of guidelines for open scholarly infrastructure providers and outlines how these organisations should be run and sustained. It offers a framework to uphold transparency and accountability.

Moving to open source

In July 2020, Europe PMC began indexing the full text of COVID-19 preprints. The initiative supported by Wellcome, the UK Medical Research Council, and Swiss National Science Foundation, has now made over 15,300 full text COVID-19 preprints searchable and free to read, alongside peer reviewed articles. Number of full text COVID-19 preprints in Europe PMC by month.

Over 15,300 full text COVID-19 now available in Europe PMC

We are excited to announce the recent release of metagenomics annotations for Europe PMC publications. Thanks to the machine learning framework of Dr. Maaly Nassar for the joint EMERALD project between Europe PMC and MGnify teams, recognising metagenomics key terms in literature can now provide detailed biome descriptions for unravelling microbial implications in a variety of environmental-, engineered- and host-associated phenomena.

Enriching Europe PMC publications with Metagenomics annotations

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Global grant IDs in Europe PMC

Europe PMC has been indexing preprints since 2018, hosting content initially from bioRxiv, ChemRxiv, PeerJ Preprints, F1000, and subsequently adding content from medRxiv and Beilstein Archives. Europe PMC now indexes over 100K preprints. Through a recent redesign of the search functionality, Europe PMC

Making sense of preprint versions

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The new Europe PMC is here

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New science in Europe PMC: welcome microPublications

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Swiss National Science Foundation 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 of medical science – from basic research through clinical application to healthcare delivery. Their mission is to promote medical science and its translation into benefits for society.

Academy of Medical Sciences joins Europe PMC

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Get the essence: introducing search snippets

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Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance joins Europe PMC

[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 National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) and the US’s Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and content allowed by participating publishers.

Calling all bookworms…

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New Year, New Look for Europe PMC

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ORCIDs in Europe PMC

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 “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 by which we realize we are happy. It opens our eyes, our ears. Tells use where delights are lurking. Convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever: that of the mind.

IRIS, educated – more accurately, populated…

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[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.

Europe PMC Open Access Facts: a celebration of all things Open Access for #OAweek2014

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Linking grants to your publication

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World Health Organization joins Europe PMC

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How healthy eating could starve out cancer

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Challenging language barriers

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“So what exactly do you do?”

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Beat box: How the brain processes rhythm

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“Can you read my mind?”

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Five reasons to enter Access to Understanding

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Genetic study reveals that a significant proportion of intelligence is inherited

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Breast cancer: Two-face ER

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New funders join Europe PMC

[We are pleased to announce a new feature in Europe PMC that allows you to track data citations in the scientific literature.

Tracking Data Citations in Europe PMC

[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.

Linking Articles Available in Europe PMC to your ORCID

Imagine, if you will, open access as a train, running up and down the length of the country, travelling anywhere track is laid, delivering papers, books, ideas to all and sundry. Research funders have the opportunity to man the signal boxes and set the open access movement’s direction of travel.

Monographs and book chapters must become a larger part of the open access landscape

On May 1st 2013 Yorkshire Cancer Research (YCR) became the newest member of the Europe PMC Funders’ Group, and we’re delighted to have them on board. YCR fund cancer research that is carried out by world-class scientists and clinicians across Yorkshire, and provide information to help local people beat cancer.

Yorkshire Cancer Research joins Europe PMC

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A RESTful Web Service for Europe PubMed Central

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Access to Understanding competition winners announced

Project Manager for UKPMC  We are looking to recruit an experienced Project Manager to join the Literature Services Team at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) located on the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus near Cambridge in the UK.  The Project Manager will be responsible for coordinating UK PubMed Central (UKPMC), a repository of 2 million full text biomedical research articles, supplemented with over 25 million abstracts, database links

UKPMC is hiring!

Access to Understanding is a new science-writing competition, developed by Europe PubMed Central and The British Library, aimed at early career researchers and PhD students.  The winner will receive an iPad and have their entry published in eLife.

New science-writing competition now open!

[The European Research Council (ERC) announced today that it will participate in the UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) open access repository service, joining 18 existing UK and European funders[[i]]{style=“font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;”}.The ERC becomes the third European funder to join UKPMC, following Telethon Italy and the Austrian Research Fund.

European Research Council renews its commitment to open access by joining Europe PubMed Central

UKPMC Labs is a new component of the UKPMC website, which will showcase novel applications based on UKPMC content. The first application to be featured on the Labs website is EvidenceFinder, an application that surfaces “facts” based on a user’s search terms from full text articles. The user is presented with a list of questions based on the search terms.

Introducing UKPMC Labs

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SpringerPlus — new OA journal from Springer

The senior editorial team is today announced for ‘eLife’, the new top-tier, open access research journal to be launched next year with the support of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society and the Wellcome Trust.  Read the press release on the Wellcome Trust website.

Editorial team announced for ‘eLife’, the new open access journal to be launched next year

Yesterday the UK OAIG released research reporting on the benefits of open access to commercial companies and findings from a JISC Collections consultation on the practicalities of paying for open access publication.

Two reports from the UK Open Access Implementation Group (OAIG)

We are looking to recruit experienced developers to join the Literature Services Team at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) to help deliver UK PubMed Central. This is a great opportunity to contribute to a core resource for biomedical researchers. The positions involve a range of activities, depending on where your experience lies. We require people who can demonstrate excellence in a variety of technical skills.

UK PubMed Central is hiring!

Papers published under the Royal Society of Medicine’s open access option (RSM Open) are now deposited in PubMed Central and mirrored to UKPMC. The open access option is available to all authors and applies to all RSM journals. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for RSM Open is $3000.  All papers published under this model are licenced using the Creative Commons Attribution, Non-commercial licence.

Royal Society Medicine Open papers — now deposited in PMC

BMJ Open – BMJ’s new online-only, open access journal – has been launched.

BMJOpen launched

The complete archive of the Eugenics Review journal – from 1909 through to 1968 when the title ceased – has been digitised through the Wellcome Library’s Backfile Digitisation Project, and is now freely available at UKPMC and PubMed Central.

The complete archive of the

 Eugenics Review

journal – from 1909 through to 1968 when the title ceased – has been digitised through the Wellcome Library’s Backfile Digitisation Project, and is now freely available at UKPMC and PubMed Central.

Eugenics Review : digitised and freely available through UKPMC

Wiley have announced the launch of Wiley Open Access, a new publishing programme of open access journals.  The first three titles –

 Microbiology Open, Brain and Behavior

and

 Ecology and Evolution

– will all launch later in 2011.

Wiley announce launch of new Open Access journals

At the Wellcome Trust we are always keen to try new ways to promote our open access policy, and the UKPMC repository. Our latest promotional activity involves a huge poster in the rear window (Gower Place) of the Wellcome Trust HQ, in London.

Window display to promote open access and UKPMC

The Wellcome Trust’s Open Access policy has always made it clear that it considers dissemination costs as legitimate research costs and as such provides grantholders with additional funding, through their institutions, to cover open access charges.

Almost 60% of Wellcome-funded papers in PMC are fully open access

The Company of Biologists (COB) – publishers of

 Development

and

 Journal of Cell Science

– has developed an open access (“gold”) option, which meets the requirements of the UKPMC Funders’ Group.

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