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.

[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 articles authored by the researchers they support. For many years, the PMCI network has consisted of three nodes, PMC USA, Europe PMC and PMC Canada.

[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;

[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.]{style=“background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;”} [ ]{style=“background-color: transparent; color: black;

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[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.]{style=“font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;”} [We kicked off in January with a new, mobile-friendly ]{style=“font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;”}[homepage]{style=“color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial";

[What exactly is Europe PMC? How is it different from PubMed Central? What can I do with Europe PMC?]{style=“font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;”} [Those are some of the questions I had myself when I first heard of Europe PMC.