Abstract
This article describes recent developments of Europe PMC (http://europepmc.org), the leading database for life science literature. Formerly known as UKPMC, the service was rebranded in November 2012 as Europe PMC to reflect the scope of the funding agencies that support it. Several new developments have enriched Europe PMC considerably since then. Europe PMC now offers RESTful web services to access both articles and grants, powerful search tools such as citation-count sort order and data citation features, a service to add publications to your ORCID, a variety of export formats, and an External Links service that enables any related resource to be linked from Europe PMC content.
Highlights
The core mission of Europe PMC is to build open, full-text scientific literature resources and support innovation by engaging users, enabling contributors and integrating related research data.Europe PMC does this primarily by providing access and adding value to over 29 million abstracts and 3 million full-text articles
It was first described in the 2011 NAR database issue [1] when it was operating as UKPMC; in November 2012 it was rebranded as Europe PMC to reflect the Europe-wide funders that support it
Europe PMC is a partner in PMC International (PMCi), along with PMC USA and PMC Canada, which means that fulltext content is shared by and available from any of these three nodes
Summary
The core mission of Europe PMC (http://europepmc.org) is to build open, full-text scientific literature resources and support innovation by engaging users, enabling contributors and integrating related research data. Europe PMC does this primarily by providing access and adding value to over 29 million abstracts and 3 million full-text articles. It was first described in the 2011 NAR database issue [1] when it was operating as UKPMC; in November 2012 it was rebranded as Europe PMC to reflect the Europe-wide funders that support it. Europe PMC via Europe PMC plus, you must be funded by one of the Europe PMC funders
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