[ “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.

[Europe PMC has a new provider of External Links: links from articles on Europe PMC to related content on 3 ^rd party websites. Our most recent addition provides links from over 300,000 articles to entries in Wikipedia: the free encyclopaedia.

[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 to publication … or … rejection.

[We’re delighted that 2 new funders have joined Europe PMC, bringing the ]{style=“color: #5a595e; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;”}[total]{style=“font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;”}[ to 28! ]{style=“color: #5a595e; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;”} [The new funders are:]{style=“color: #5a595e;

[With the Access to Understanding awards ceremony just about wrapping up, we can now announce the winners…]{style=“font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;”} [ ]{style=“font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;”} [First place was awarded to Philippa Matthews for her entry ’Rolling back malaria: A journey through space and time’, which described research exploring the changing patterns of malaria risk across Africa.

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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 collaborative project between Cochrane, Wiley, and the Europe PMC team, and has enabled us to make this subset of full-text reviews available to access for free via Europe PMC with the functionality that papers in Europe PMC enjoy.

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 below to see where they came from and what they were about.

[Guest post from Lisa O’Sullivan, Director, Center for the History of Medicine and Public Health]{style=“font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;”} [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

[Enter a prestigious, international science-writing competition aimed at PhD students and early career post-doctoral researchers.]{style=“font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;”} [[]{style=“font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;”}]{style=“font-family: "arial narrow" , "sans-serif";”} [[The winner will receive an** iPad** and have their entry published in