An introduction to Europe PMC

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1 An introduction to Europe PMC 21st April 2015 Keble College, University of Oxford FOSTER 2020 Vision: Making Your Research Output Compliant

2 A quick introduction I m Michele Ide-Smith User Experience Designer at EMBL-EBI Prior to EBI, I worked at the University of Cambridge, designing and developing an Open Access service.

3 What is Europe PMC?

4 A free to access resource, where you can search for life science and biomedical research literature

5 What content can you find in Europe PMC?

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7 What is the difference between Europe PMC and PubMed?

8 Europe PMC PubMed Search through 30 million abstracts (including 24 million from PubMed) and 3 million full text articles in one search Over 4 million patent abstracts NHS clinical guidelines 500,000 Agricola records Chinese Biological abstracts Search through 24 million abstracts Links to 3 million full text articles on PubMed Central

9 Open Access Different funders have different mandates. Some biomedical funders e.g. The Wellcome Trust and MRC require the full text of your published article to be available on Europe PMC within 6 months of the publication date. On Europe PMC open access means articles that you can read and re-use.

10 Open Access on Europe PMC Many publishers will upload articles to Europe PMC automatically, so you can comply with funder mandates Upload your own articles with a Europe PMC Plus account ( plus.europepmc.org/emss/local/help/) More than 900,000 Open Access articles (increasing daily)

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12 Supporting the Open Access policies of: Action on Hearing Loss Arthritis Research UK Austrian Science Fund FWF Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council Breakthrough Breast Cancer Breast Cancer Campaign British Heart Foundation Chief Scientist Office Diabetes UK The Dunhill Medical Trust European Research Council Marie Curie Cancer Care Medical Research Council Motor Neurone Disease Association Multiple Sclerosis Society Myrovlytis Trust National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement & Reduction of Animals on Research National Institute for Health Research Parkinson s UK Prostate Cancer UK Telethon IT The Wellcome Trust World Health Organization Worldwide Cancer Research Yorkshire Cancer Research

13 What are the benefits of using Europe PMC?

14 Let s start with a search:

15 ORCID Do you share a name with someone in your field? Help people to see unambiguously which publications are authored by you Link your Europe PMC publications to your ORCID ID

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17 Grant information Search 51,500 awarded grants from 26 funders, dating back to 2006 Explore who funds research in your area Check you don t overlap with other grants when submitting a funding application Find grant IDs and details quickly when writing articles

18 What s coming up?

19 Improvements in 2015 Search improvements, to enable easier filtering of search results Saved searches Close collaboration with the text mining community and content curators

20 Questions?

21 Get in touch Michele Ide-Smith User Experience Designer, EMBL-EBI An Introduction to Europe PMC - a Life Sciences Literature Resource by Michele Ide- Smith is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Based on a work at Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at