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Europe PMC provides comprehensive access to life sciences literature from trusted sources. It's available to anyone, anywhere for free. https://europepmc.org/

Image of the Wellcome Genome Campus, where Europe PMC offices are based.
Webinar by Europe PMC and Knowledge Rights 21. Closed licences, closed doors: Open licensing, AI, and the future of research impact. April 14th, 10:00 - 11:30 BST.
Screen recording demonstrating Europe PMC's new “My Library” feature. The user signs in via the top banner, accessing the login page. After signing in, the main search bar is visible at the top. The user enters search terms and views the search results. Selecting an article opens the article page, where selecting the “Save” button in the right-hand navigation panel adds it to “My Library.” A confirmation popup appears stating “Article saved to My Library.” The user then selects “My Library” to view saved articles.
Screenshot of the Europe PMC homepage showing a central search bar for life sciences literature, with over 47 million research outputs. Below the search bar are three feature panels highlighting Europe PMC's focuses which are “Innovative features,” “Comprehensive search,” and “Trusted partnerships,” highlighting search tools, global literature coverage, and partnerships including PubMed Central and ELIXIR.
Europe PMC includes preprints from 34 preprint servers. Including: Access Microbiology, AfricArXiv, agriRxiv, AIJR Preprints , ARPHA, Preprints , arXiv, Authorea Preprints, Beilstein Archives, BioHackrXiv, bioRxiv, ChemRxiv , EcoEvoRxiv, Emerald Open Research, F1000 Research, Gates Open Research, Health Open Research, HRB Open Research, MedEdPublish, medRxiv, MetaArXiv, NIHR Open Research, Open Research Africa, Open Research Europe, PaleorXiv, PeerJ Preprints , Preprints.org, PsyArXiv, Qeios, Research Square, SciELO Preprints, ScienceOpen Preprints, SSRN, VeriXiv, and Wellcome Open Research.
UKRI webinar: Improving the Open Access Research Information Landscape Date: 03 September 2025 Time: 11:00 - 12:00 BST location: Online
Webinar at EMBL-EBI: Hacking Literature Searches: Build smarter search strategies with Europe PMC Advanced search. 19th August 2025 15:00 - 16:00 BST
UKRI Webinar: improving the Open Access Research Information Landscape 03 September 2025, 11:00 - 12:00 BST, Online
Webinar at EMBL-EBI: Hacking Literature Searches: Build smarter search strategies with Europe PMC Advanced search. 19th August 2025 15:00 - 16:00 BST
Webinar at EMBL-EBI: Hacking Literature Searches: Build smarter search strategies with Europe PMC Advanced search. 19th August 2025 15:00 - 16:00 BST
Webinar at EMBL-EBI: Hacking Literature Searches: Build smarter search strategies with Europe PMC Advanced search. 19th August 2025 15:00 - 16:00 BST
Webinar at EMBL-EBI Hacking Literature Searches: Build smarter search strategies with Europe PMC Advanced search. 19 August 2025 15:00 - 16:00 BST
Licensing of articles in Europe PMC: 5.5 M CCO/CC-BY-SA/CC-BY Licenses for which free text available for derivative of commercial use. 7M open access full text which are free full text available as XML bulk download under a Creative Commons license, or similar. 10.8M free full text where the free full text in Europe PMC is read and display only. And 46.2M records where full text may be available elsewhere via Unpaywall integration.
EMBL's current Open Science Policy. 1. Deposit a preprint 2. Publish Open access with a CC BY license 3. Link publications to ORCIS during submission 4. Deposit in EPMC. 5. Standard EMBL affiliation acknowledgement.
Image taken from Creative Commons slide dec in What happens when you choose closed? webinar 09July 2025. Creative Commons Licence Term Options Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to you, the creator. ShareAlike (SA): Adaptations must be shared under the same terms. NonCommercial (NC): Only noncommercial use of your work is permitted, not primarily intended for monetary compensation. NoDerivatives (ND): No derivatives or adaptations of your work are permitted. CCBY has the most freedoms followed by CC-BY-SA, CC-BY-NC, CC-BY-ND, and CC-BY-NC-ND as the least freedom
Promotional slide for a webinar titled "What happens when you choose closed? What Creative Commons licenses mean for research and AI." The slide features photos and names of five speakers: Melissa Harrison (Europe PMC / EMBL-EBI), Katherine Hughes (EMBL), Taylor Campbell (Creative Commons), Monica Granados (Creative Commons), and Kat Walsh (Creative Commons). Logos for Europe PMC, Creative Commons, and EMBL are shown at the bottom. The background is green with white text.
Behind the Screens: Meet the Europe PMC Team! image showcasing Summer Rosonovski, our Community Outreach Officer, including her photo and the following text: Summer is passionate about open research, because science has the greatest impact when it can be read, reused, and built on by all. She swears she couldn’t survive without her Trello board and trusty paper diary!
Behind the Screens: Meet the Europe PMC Team! image showcasing Amina Rufai, our Machine Learning Data Scientist including her photo and the following text: Amina loves applying NLP to build tools that help you search the literature. She swears by time-blocking and morning deep focus sessions to crush her to-do list. Off the clock, she stays grounded with martial arts and even grows her own herbs!
Screenshot of a Europe PMC article page titled "Protein measurement with the Folin phenol reagent." The left-hand navigation menu highlights three options in an orange box: “References,” “Citations & impact,” and “Similar Articles.” These sections help users explore related content and build bibliographies.
Behind the Screens: Meet the Europe PMC Team! image showcasing Uma Chandrasekaran, our Project Manager (Content), including her photo and the following text: Uma is driven by knowing her work has real world impact, it gives her a strong sense of purpose. She helps ensure that scientific content is shared effectively, responsibly, and securely. Oh, and she's a pretty good cook! Her kitchen is her happy place.
Behind the Screens: Meet the Europe PMC Team! image showcasing Islam Hassan, our Back End Developer, including his photo and the following text: Islam is proud to have open sourced our text-mining pipeline with full setup documentation. He’s inspired to work at Europe PMC as it enables life sciences research at a global scale and empowers open science and data sharing. Oh and he’s a big football fan!
A screenshot of the Europe PMC website showing the "Export citations" feature. On the search page select the “Export citations” link which is highlighted in an orange box. This leads to a pop-up window, which is titled "Export citations" presents two steps. Step 1 allows the user to select citations for export, with options to export from thesearch results, where you fill in a field to determine how many of the first results are exported (up to 50,000 allowed). Step 2 asks the user to select a format, with options including BibTeX (Mendeley and papers accept this), RIS (Endnote, Mendeley, and Refworks accept this), Text (citation), XML (abstracts), XML (open access full text), Excel comma separated (CSV), and ID list. Step 3. Select the download button displayed at the bottom of the pop-up window. A greyed-out "Download" button is visible.
Behind the Screens: Meet the Europe PMC Team! image showcasing Zunaira Shafique, our Senior Full Stack Developer including her photo and the following text: Zunaira loves building tools that make it easier for researchers to access scientific knowledge. She feels good knowing her code supports science. Her go to productivity hack is breaking work into small, manageable chunks and LISTS!
Screenshot showing the ‘save and create alert” button on the right hand side of the Europe PMC search bar on the main search page, with the ‘save and create alert’ window, where you input search terms in the screenshot the example is “cancer dysregulation” and this displays the current number of results which for this phrase is 127,597. The user can name the alert, choose to receive email updates. If they select yes for email updates they can set frequency (daily, weekly, or monthly) and day of the week to receive the update, and select whether to receive the partial abstract as well as the title, author, and journal.
Behind the Screens: Meet the Europe PMC Team! image showcasing Melissa Harrison team leader including her photo and the following text: Melissa is inspired by the people she works with to contribute to the democratisation of science. Her favourite part of her job is working with talented people from a range of heritages. To unwind, she sometimes builds lego!
Image of logos of preprints servers indexed in Europe PMC. Logos are of the following preprint servers: Access Microbiology, AfricArXiv, agriRxiv, AIJR Preprints, ARPHA Preprints, arXiv, Authorea Preprints, Beilstein Archives, BioHackrXiv, bioRxiv, ChemRxiv, EcoEvoRxiv, Emerald Open Research, F1000 Research, Gates Open Research, Health Open Research, HRB Open Research, MedEdPublish, medRxiv, MetaArXiv, NIHR Open Research, Open Research Africa, Open Research Europe, PaleorXiv, PeerJ Preprints, Preprints.org, PsyArXiv, Qeios, Research Square, SciELO Preprints, ScienceOpen Preprints, SSRN, VeriXiv, and Wellcome Open Research.
Image showing two diagrams the top shows the Europe PMC logo then a red X through an equals sign leading to the word publisher to depict that Europe is not a publisher. The second diagram shows the Europe PMC logo then a green tick through an equals sign leading to the word aggregator to depict that Europe PMC is an aggregator.
Screenshot of the Europe PMC search filters. Options include: 1. Free full text access with two options a. Full text in Europe PMC (10,630,315) b. Link to free full text (10,912,093). 2. Type with four options: a. Research articles (36,707,282) b. Review articles (3,835,432) c. Preprints (927,867) d. Books & documents (37,418). 3. Date published where there is an interactive date range slider from 1768 to 2027. Also preset options for: The last year (2,290,281), The last 3 years (5,769,023), The last 5 years (9,182,862).
Poll results image with the question: “What do you find most challenging when searching for publications?” Results show: Finding open access publications – 45.5% (5 votes), Creating queries – 18.2% (2 votes), Choosing the right keywords – 9.1% (1 vote), Unfamiliarity with available filters – 9.1% (1 vote), Too many results – 9.1% (1 vote), Too few results – 9.1% (1 vote) Poll by @europepmc.org with hashtags: #AcademicSky #Medlib #PhDSky #AcademicChatter.
Alt text: Screenshot of the syntax explanation on EPMC website. METHODS: searches for a term or terms in the methods section of a publication for example METHODS:"yeast two-hybrid" finds articles with phrase "yeast two-hybrid" in the Materials & Methods section. RESULTS: searches for a term or terms in the results section of a publication for example RESULTS:"in vivo" finds articles with phrase "in vivo" in the Results section.
Screenshot of the syntax explanation on EPMC website. TITLE: searches for a term or terms in publication titles for example TITLE:aspirin, TITLE:"protein knowledgebase". ABSTRACT: searches for a term or terms in publication abstracts for example ABSTRACT:malaria, ABSTRACT:"chicken pox". TITLR_ABS: searches for a term or terms in publication titles and abstracts for example TITLE_ABS:blood, TITLE_ABS:"african swine fever"
Image demonstrating how a boolean search works. If you search A AND B the search will return content that contain both A and B. Content with only A or only B will not be included. If you search A OR B the search will return content that contain either A or B or both A and B. This expands your search results. If you search A NOT B then the search will return content that contains A in the absence of B, any content mentioning B will be excluded. This narrows your search results.
Flowchart showing the process for submitting a manuscript publication and review in Europe pMC Plus. Step 1. the submitter, one of the authors, will submit the final version of the manuscript, modified and accepted for publication to Europe PMC plus. Step 2. Europe PMC transforms the submission into archival and web versions for reading, indexing, and searching. Step 3. the author reviews the final web versions of the manuscript. Step 4. The manuscript is made freely available on Europe PMC and PubMed Central.
Flowchart titled Open Access Jargon Buster shows the scholarly publication process by S. Humphreys 07-09-2022 CC-BY-SA. It reminds you before you start to consider: Funder requirements, Pre-registration, Publication routes, your copyright, and ORCID. Step one is to draft a manuscript paper which can then go to a preprint server and then to a publisher or straight to a publisher. The article then goes through the peer review process, and once edits are accepted there are two different routes. The first route is to deposit the author accepted manuscript peer-reviewed version into a digital repository. This is Green OA - the article is free to access in a repository and/or under a timed embargo period. Note if you publish Gold OA you can deposit the VoR. The second route is to select a license of Copyright or an Open license and make the formatted manuscript publisher's verision open access. There are three different paths for this route. One, if there’s no charge this is called Diamond or Platinum. Two, if there is a fee this is Gold open access where all articles in the journal are licensed for open access. Three, if there is a subscription journal, where all but ‘hybrid’ articles are under the journal's copyright. Where most are pay-to-read, and you pay an article processing charge then this is a hybrid open access where this is a subscription journal where you can pay an APC to make a single article open.
Preprint review benefits: 1. Publicly available, preprints are openly available for anyone to access and read. 2. Contextualise findings, open review allows readers of the research to contextualise new findings, improving accessibility to non-experts. 3. New ways to review research, An opportunity to experiment with different methods of review. 4. Rapid feedback, The community can provide feedback on a preprint the instant it is posted. 5. Expanding pool of reviewers, Preprint reviews are not limited to select reviewers, expanding upon who can provide feedback. 6. Credit to reviewers, an open transparent review system gives credit to review authors.
Stacked area chart showing the cumulative number of preprints indexed by Europe PMC from 2020 to 2025. The x-axis represents the years, while the y-axis represents the cumulative number of preprints, reaching over 900,000 by 2025. Different colours represent various preprint servers, including Research Square (largest share), bioRxiv, Preprints.org, medRxiv, PsyArXiv, Authorea Preprints, SSRN, and Others. The chart highlights the steady growth of preprint publications over time.
Screenshot of Developer resources in Europe PMC. Use Europe PMC's Open Access content and metadata to build your applications. Articles RESTful API - Access publications and related information. Grants RESTful API - Access grant information from Europe PMC funders using the GRIST database. API case studies - Learn more about how Europe PMC APIs can be used to create new products and services. SOAP web service - Retrieve publication data using this Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)-based service. OAI service - Get access to the metadata of all items in the Europe PMC archive, and full text of a subset of these items. Bulk downloads - Download all the articles in the Open Access set, plus the metadata of all full-text articles in Europe PMC. Annotations API - Access annotations contained in abstracts and open access articles. Developer Forum - Join the developer forum to receive news about API releases, post general API questions, and share your experience with fellow API users. Tech Blog - Follow the Europe PMC Tech blog to learn about Europe PMC technical developments, API case studies and more.
A screenshot of the Europe PMC search page. Showing a key word search bar. Beside the search bar is the option to save and create an alert. On the left hand side there are filtering options including filters for access to free full text including free full text in Europe PMC or Links to free full text, filters for research output type including Research articles, review articles, preprints and books and documents, and a filter by publication year. Shown in the image is also a sort by filter to order search results by relevance (which is the default option), Times cited, or Date. There is also an option on the right hand side to export citations or subscribe to RSS feed.
Image of some of the women in the Europe PMC team.
Image of Europe PMC funder logos: UKRI BBSRC, NC3Rs, Verus Arthritis, UKRI MRC, mnda, The Academy of Medical Sciences, India Alliance, Diabetes UK, MS Society, NIHR, Yorkshire Cancer research, Cancer research UK, Wellcome, RNI:D, CSO, Medical research foundation, Telethon, Blood cancer UK, Worldwide cancer research, Marie Curie, BHF, NWO, Health and Care Research Wales, The Dunhill Medical Trust, Parkinson's UK, MQ, Breast Cance Now, EDCTP, Pancreatic Cancer UK, Alzheimer's Soiciety, ERC, WHO, Swiss National Science Foundation, FWF, ZonMw. And developed by EMBL.
Image of Europe PMC funder logos: UKRI BBSRC, NC3Rs, Verus Arthritis, UKRI MRC, mnda, The Academy of Medical Sciences, India Alliance, Diabetes UK, MS Society, NIHR, Yorkshire Cancer research, Cancer research UK, Wellcome, RNI:D, CSO, Medical research foundation, Telethon, Blood cancer UK, Worldwide cancer research, Marie Curie, BHF, NWO, Health and Care Research Wales, The Dunhill Medical Trust, Parkinson's UK, MQ, Breast Cance Now, EDCTP, Pancreatic Cancer UK, Alzheimer's Soiciety, ERC, WHO, Swiss National Science Foundation, FWF, ZonMw. And developed by EMBL.
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Trusted research on Europe PMC: Access a free collection of biomedical research: 45M articles and preprints with 10M as full text.