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Follow Europe PMC Follow Us News blog Updates from Europe PMC , a global database of life sciences literature Subscribe All blog posts | Editor’s picks | Guest posts Maria Levchenko | 26 February 2024 | 6 MINS READ Moving to open source Maria Levchenko | 26 February 2024 | 6 MINS READ Moving to open source 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 […] Summer Rosonovski | 31 January 2024 | 4 MINS READ | Editor’s pick Discovering reviewed preprints Summer Rosonovski | 31 January 2024 | 4 MINS READ | Editor’s pick Discovering reviewed preprints Preprinting has soared in popularity in the life sciences and is increasingly recognised as an excellent method to share research outputs quickly and freely. While preprints have gained popularity, an important consideration is ensuring their scientific quality. This prompted the development of platforms where researchers can comment on, evaluate, and review preprints. Preprint review benefits […] Summer Rosonovski | 15 January 2024 | 4 MINS READ Europe PMC 2023: a year in review Summer Rosonovski | 15 January 2024 | 4 MINS READ Europe PMC 2023: a year in review As 2024 begins we reflect on the achievements our team made in 2023 to meet your needs as users. The team’s efforts were concentrated on building trust in preprints, open sourcing code, as well as expanding and improving text-mining capabilities. Preprint highlights As part of Europe PMC’s commitment to accessible and discoverable scientific research, 2023 […] Summer Rosonovski | 25 October 2023 | 6 MINS READ | Editor’s pick Building a technological foundation for preprint review Summer Rosonovski | 25 October 2023 | 6 MINS READ | Editor’s pick Building a technological foundation for preprint review The practice of preprinting in the life sciences has grown rapidly. In addition to accelerating scientific publication, preprinting also has the potential to open new avenues of communication among researchers. For example, preprint peer review offers tremendous potential for changing the culture of scientific assessment, broadening participation, and enhancing the robustness of scholarship. While only […] Europe PMC team | 28 March 2023 | 3 MINS READ | Editor’s pick Improved affiliation search for grants Europe PMC team | 28 March 2023 | 3 MINS READ | Editor’s pick Improved affiliation search for grants Integrating ROR IDs in Grant Finder Funding and research organisations are increasingly looking to understand the impact of the research they support. To link institutions with grant awards from Europe PMC funders the Europe PMC Grant Finder tool now incorporates Research Organization Registry (ROR) IDs. Linking grants and institutions The Grant Finder tool from Europe […] Europe PMC team | 8 March 2023 | 6 MINS READ | Editor’s pick Introducing Europe PMC Annotated Full-text Corpus for bioentities and associations Europe PMC team | 8 March 2023 | 6 MINS READ | Editor’s pick Introducing Europe PMC Annotated Full-text Corpus for bioentities and associations Europe PubMed Central (Europe PMC) is an open access repository of life science research, including peer-reviewed journal articles and preprints. It contains over 41 million abstracts and 8.7 million full-text articles, adding over 1.7 million new articles annually. To facilitate information discovery and foster literature–data integration, Europe PMC has incorporated text-mining approaches into its workflows. […] Europe PMC team | 11 January 2023 | 4 MINS READ Europe PMC in 2022: a year in review Europe PMC team | 11 January 2023 | 4 MINS READ Europe PMC in 2022: a year in review With the start of the new year Europe PMC reflects back on the year 2022. As many of us adjusted to hybrid working, with the opportunity to return back to the office, meet new colleagues, and attend conferences and workshops in person again for the first time since the pandemic, Europe PMC’s efforts continued to […] Europe PMC team | 20 June 2022 | 1 MIN READ Medical Research Foundation joins Europe PMC Europe PMC team | 20 June 2022 | 1 MIN READ Medical Research Foundation joins Europe PMC We are delighted to announce that the Medical Research Foundation joins Europe PMC as a new funder. This brings the Europe PMC funder family to 37 members. The Medical Research Foundation is the charitable foundation of the Medical Research Council. With support from the scientific and medical communities and the public, the charity funds high-quality […] Europe PMC team | 17 May 2022 | 2 MINS READ Health and Care Research Wales joins Europe PMC funders group Europe PMC team | 17 May 2022 | 2 MINS READ Health and Care Research Wales joins Europe PMC funders group We are delighted to announce that the Health and Care Research Wales joins Europe PMC as a new funder. This brings the Europe PMC funder family to 36 members. Health and Care Research Wales is a networked organisation which brings together a wide range of partners across the NHS in Wales, local authorities, universities, research […] Europe PMC team | 3 May 2022 | 3 MINS READ | Editor’s pick Europe PMC improves discoverability of preprints Europe PMC team | 3 May 2022 | 3 MINS READ | Editor’s pick Europe PMC improves discoverability of preprints Europe PMC now includes the full text preprints supported by Europe PMC funders Open science is at the heart of Europe PMC, providing access to open content and data. Recognising the role that preprints play as a way for life science researchers to openly and rapidly share their findings, Europe PMC has made over 420,000 […] Europe PMC team | 3 March 2022 | 2 MINS READ SciELO Preprints discoverable in Europe PMC Europe PMC team | 3 March 2022 | 2 MINS READ SciELO Preprints discoverable in Europe PMC We are delighted to announce that SciELO Preprints are now discoverable in Europe PMC. SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) is a bibliographic database, digital library, and cooperative electronic publishing model of open access journals. It was originally established in Brazil in 1997 and has since expanded to include collections from 16 countries, predominantly in Latin […] Europe PMC team | 21 February 2022 | 11 MINS READ Europe PMC adopts the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure Europe PMC team | 21 February 2022 | 11 MINS READ Europe PMC adopts the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure As a long-standing service and infrastructure provider in the open science ecosystem, Europe PMC supports the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI). We welcome the momentum gathering behind this initiative to promote the need to support and sustain the open infrastructure. Europe PMC has been a part of the public and open infrastructure for over […] Europe PMC team | 15 February 2022 | 1 MIN READ EDCTP joins Europe PMC funders group Europe PMC team | 15 February 2022 | 1 MIN READ EDCTP joins Europe PMC funders group We’re delighted to announce that the European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) joins Europe PMC as a new funder. This brings the Europe PMC funder family to 34 members. EDCTP is a public-public partnership between countries in Europe and sub-Saharan Africa, supported by the European Union. EDCTP exists to accelerate the clinical development […] Europe PMC team | 7 February 2022 | 2 MINS READ Reaching out to researchers: new Community Outreach Officer at Europe PMC Europe PMC team | 7 February 2022 | 2 MINS READ Reaching out to researchers: new Community Outreach Officer at Europe PMC Imagine you’re a life science researcher, diving into the literature to better understand your field. What challenges do you find? What tools do you wish you had? As a researcher one faces many challenges, and one...