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MONDAY, 26 JULY 2021


COVID-19 GRANTS: WHO, WHERE AND HOW MUCH?



Along with life science publications, Europe PMC offers a way to search through
biomedical grants from Europe PMC funders using the Grant Finder tool. Last
year, Europe PMC partnered with the Medical Research Council (MRC), the UK
Collaborative on Development Research (UKCDR) and the Global Research
Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness (GLoPID-R), to extend its
search to include COVID-19 grant data from other funding organisations.

COVID-19 grant data is retrieved monthly from the COVID-19 Research Project
Tracker - a live database of funded research projects across the world related
to the current COVID-19 pandemic. It is one of the most comprehensive databases,
covering a wide breadth of research disciplines.

All grant information in Europe PMC is stored in a dedicated grants database, in
a machine readable format. Data can be programmatically accessed using the
Europe PMC GRIST API, enabling large scale analyses of the funding landscape. To
demonstrate how the grant data can be used, we have gathered some insights
regarding COVID-19 funding. 

As of 10.06.2021, Europe PMC has funding information for 8839 COVID-19 grants
awarded to 8193 distinct PIs (Principal Investigators). This includes grants for
research on coronavirus epidemiology and virology, as well as grant awards in
other relevant disciplines. In the latter case, funders such as ERC provide us
with a curated list of COVID-19 related awards.

COVID-19 grants are awarded by 146 international funders, indicating that the
current pandemic truly is a world-wide issue. You can see the geographical
distribution of the funding organisations on the map below. Circle size
correlates with the number of funders based within a selected country. Funders
that could not be assigned a geographical location, which accounts for 23
funding organisations, are not represented on the map. This includes
international and intergovernmental organisations. 



The data shows that ~2% of all COVID-19 grants (168 of 8839 total) are jointly
supported by two or more funders.

Altogether COVID-19 grant awards amount to at least $3.9 billion (monetary value
is not available for 2500 (28%) of the COVID-19 grant records). Note that grants
have been awarded in 20 different currencies which we have converted to USD for
this calculation. The mean average COVID-19 grant award value is ~$615,000,
which is still nearly a third lower than the average value of grants awarded by
Europe PMC funders (~$845,000). This could be a result of COVID-19 grants being
awarded with a shorter duration than the average funding call duration for
Europe PMC funder grants. Looking at grants that have both start and end dates
available, the average COVID-19 grant has a duration of 30 months, compared to
40 months for regular Europe PMC funding calls, representing a similar annual
value (~$235,000 for COVID-19 grants and ~$247,000 for non-COVID-19). Another
explanation may be that the most common discipline in the COVID-19 tracker is
social sciences, where research costs are typically lower than in the medical
sciences.

These are just some examples of what we can infer from the funding information
available in Europe PMC. We hope that making grant data available via an open
API in a structured form will lead to more insights by other research teams in
the future.

Please note that we feature examples from our programmatic users on the Europe
PMC API Case Studies page. If you have used the Europe PMC GRIST API and would
like to share your story please get in touch via helpdesk@europepmc.org.


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TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021


PSYARXIV PREPRINTS NOW INDEXED IN EUROPE PMC




PSYARXIV PREPRINTS ARE NOW DISCOVERABLE IN EUROPE PMC ALONGSIDE PEER-REVIEWED
RESEARCH

PsyArXiv’s collection of more than 14,000 psychological sciences preprints has
now been indexed in Europe PMC, an open science platform that enables access to
a worldwide collection of 38.6 million life science publications and preprints.

“Indexing PsyArXiv in Europe PMC means that psychological preprints will now be
more discoverable than ever before. PsyArXiv users will benefit from the
increased audience for their work.”  - Katherine S. Corker, executive officer
for the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science, and Associate
Professor at Grand Valley State University.   

Since 2018, Europe PMC has indexed nearly 290,000 preprints alongside its
collection of peer-reviewed journal articles. Similar to other records in Europe
PMC, these preprints are linked to underlying data, journal published articles,
preprint citations, comments or open peer reviews, and can be claimed to ORCID.

"We’ve seen an impressive rise in preprint popularity in the life sciences in
the last few years – it’s a great way to rapidly communicate research results.
[...] We hope that including preprint abstracts into Europe PMC search results,
will not only enhance their discoverability, but also provide a community
platform to explore some open questions.” - Johanna McEntyre, the Associate
Director of EMBL-EBI Services and Principal Investigator for Europe PMC.

If you are interested to learn more about PsyArXiv preprints in Europe PMC,
please register to join our live demo at 13:00 (GMT+1) on May 25th.

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About PsyArxiv

PsyArXiv (psychology archive) is designed to facilitate rapid dissemination of
psychological research. PsyArXiv is a creation of the Society for the
Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) and is hosted by the Center for Open
Science (COS).

PsyArXiv allows scholars to post documents such as working papers, unpublished
work, and articles under review (preprints), making them accessible to other
researchers and to the public at no cost. Users can also upload revisions of
their posted document and supplemental documents such as appendices.

About Europe PMC

Europe PMC is an open database of life science publications and preprints from
trusted sources around the globe. Europe PMC supports the research community by
supporting innovation in publishing, fostering reproducible science, and
enabling data-driven discovery. Europe PMC’s mission is to build open, full text
scientific literature resources and support innovation by engaging users,
enabling contributors, and integrating related research data.


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TUESDAY, 9 FEBRUARY 2021


OVER 15,300 FULL TEXT COVID-19 NOW AVAILABLE IN EUROPE PMC



IN JULY 2020, EUROPE PMC BEGAN INDEXING THE FULL TEXT OF COVID-19 PREPRINTS. THE
INITIATIVE SUPPORTED BY WELLCOME, THE UK MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL, AND SWISS
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION, HAS NOW MADE OVER 15,300 FULL TEXT COVID-19
PREPRINTS SEARCHABLE AND FREE TO READ, ALONGSIDE PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES.









NUMBER OF FULL TEXT COVID-19 PREPRINTS IN EUROPE PMC BY MONTH.




RESEARCHERS CAN BENEFIT FROM A GREATER NUMBER OF RESULTS BEING RETURNED FOR EACH
QUERY SINCE EUROPE PMC SEARCH TOOL SEARCHES NOT ONLY THE ABSTRACTS BUT ALSO THE
FULL TEXT OF ARTICLES AND PREPRINTS. THE FULL TEXT OF COVID-19 PREPRINTS ARE
AVAILABLE FOR READING AND REUSE VIA A STANDARD XML FORMAT, SO IF A PREPRINT HAS
AN OPEN LICENSE, IT CAN BE TEXT MINED PROGRAMMATICALLY, ALLOWING DEEPER ANALYSIS
OF THE COVID-19 LITERATURE.


WHICH SERVERS ARE INDEXED?

EUROPE PMC CURRENTLY INDEXES FULL TEXT COVID-19 PREPRINTS FROM BIOMEDICAL
SERVERS BIORXIV, AND MEDRXIV.  ADDING TO THIS, EUROPE PMC ALSO INCLUDES FULL
TEXT COVID-19 PREPRINTS FROM RESEARCH SQUARE, CHEMRXIV, SSRN AND FROM ARXIV.


PREPRINT SERVER

DISCIPLINARY SCOPE

ARXIV

MULTIPLE SCIENTIFIC FIELDS, INCLUDING QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY

BIORXIV

BROAD LIFE & BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH (FROM ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR AND COGNITION TO
ZOOLOGY)

CHEMRXIV

SUBJECT-SPECIFIC, INCLUDING BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY

MEDRXIV

BROAD MEDICAL, CLINICAL AND RELATED HEALTH SCIENCES

RESEARCH SQUARE

ALL SCIENTIFIC FIELDS

SSRN

MULTIPLE SCIENTIFIC FIELDS INCLUDING APPLIED SCIENCES, HEALTH SCIENCES, LIFE
SCIENCES, SOCIAL SCIENCES

DISCIPLINARY SCOPE WAS TAKEN FROM ‘PREPRINT SERVER DIRECTORY’ AT
HTTPS://ASAPBIO.ORG/PREPRINT-SERVERS 




 

EUROPE PMC USES THE PDF FREELY AVAILABLE ON THESE PREPRINT SERVERS TO CREATE THE
FULL-TEXT HTML VERSION OF THE PREPRINT, WHICH IS LATER SENT FOR AUTHOR APPROVAL
TO DISPLAY BY EUROPE PMC.  A SINGLE QUERY WILL ACCESS 15,000 PREPRINTS FROM
ACROSS THESE 6 SERVERS.

 



NUMBER OF FULL TEXT COVID-19 PREPRINTS IN EUROPE PMC BY PREPRINT SERVER.

 

 



 


DATA RE-USE

ONE OF THE AIMS OF THE PROJECT IS TO PROVIDE A UNIQUE CORPUS OF COVID-19
RESEARCH FOR CURRENT AND FUTURE RESEARCH. THE COVID-19 FULL TEXT ARTICLES IN
EUROPE PMC HAVE ALREADY BEEN USED FOR DATA ANALYSIS IN THE FOLLOWING STUDIES:




 * SCHWAB, S. AND HELD, L. (2020), SCIENCE AFTER COVID‐19: FASTER, BETTER,
   STRONGER?. SIGNIFICANCE, 17: 8-9. HTTPS://DOI.ORG/10.1111/1740-9713.01415 

 * FRASER, NICHOLAS; KRAMER, BIANCA (2020): COVID19_PREPRINTS. FIGSHARE.
   SOFTWARE. HTTPS://DOI.ORG/10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.12033672.V41 

 * IVANOVA, Y., KARAPEEV, G., BUTLER, D., GADEGAARD, N., AITCHISON, I., CANNON,
   P., & KEITH, N. (2020, NOVEMBER 29). FLUCTUATIONS IN SDG RELEVANT RESEARCH
   OUTPUT IN RESPONSE TO COVID-19. RETRIEVED FROM OSF.IO/EA37Y 

 


FUTURE PLANS

EUROPE PMC IS PLANNING TO INDEX FULL TEXT PREPRINTS FROM PREPRINTS.ORG, AUTHOREA
AND OTHER PREPRINT SERVERS AND PLATFORMS WHICH INCLUDE RELEVANT COVID-19
CONTENT. TO SEE AN UPDATED LIST OF PREPRINT SERVERS CHECK THE ‘ABOUT PREPRINT
PAGE’ ON EUROPE PMC WEBSITE.










FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT PREPRINTS IN EUROPE PMC, VISIT OUR WEBSITE:
HTTPS://EUROPEPMC.ORG/PREPRINTS








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TUESDAY, 19 JANUARY 2021


EUROPE PMC ANNOUNCES RENEWED FUNDING AND TWO NEW FUNDERS JOIN THE FAMILY



 


EUROPE PMC INFRASTRUCTURE GRANT RENEWAL


We start 2021 with the exciting news that the Europe PMC infrastructure grant
has been renewed for the period April 2021 to March 2026. The grant award is
supported by 30 international biomedical funders and led by the Principal
Investigator Dr Johanna McEntyre, of the European Bioinformatics Institute
(EMBL-EBI). The grant enables the continued development and maintenance of the
Europe PMC infrastructure and supports the Open Access policies of the Europe
PMC funders, by enabling researchers to self-archive journal articles.




"I am delighted that funding for Europe PMC is secured until 2026. This will
allow Europe PMC to not only support the open access policies of the Europe PMC
funders, but also provide comprehensive free and open access to  research
abstracts, full text and preprints. Europe PMC is a community resource, and a
key part of European and global data infrastructure, providing vital links
between data and articles to support open science”, said Jo McEntyre, who is
also Associate Director of EMBL-EBI and Head of Literature Services.


TWO NATIONAL FUNDING ORGANISATIONS IN THE NETHERLANDS, NWO AND ZONMW, JOIN
EUROPE PMC


We're excited to announce that the NWO and ZonMw join Europe PMC’s funder family
this year.




The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), funds
interdisciplinary, curiosity-driven research that is focused on societal
challenges and also invests annually in research infrastructure. Notably, The
NWO announced its Open Science fund in December 2020, a programme that will
support researchers in developing, testing and implementing innovative ways of
making research open.





ZonMw funds the full spectrum of healthcare research, from basic research to the
implementation of new treatments, disease prevention, and health care
improvements in the Netherlands,  as well as contributing to international
programmes. ZonMw works closely with the NWO, with their focus on healthcare
research complementing NWO’s support of a wider range of scientific research
areas.


Researchers funded by NWO and ZonMw will join thousands of others who make their
published research articles freely available from Europe PMC as soon as
possible. Both national funders are supporters of Coalition S meaning that all
published research articles funded by NWO and ZonMw grants that are awarded from
January 1st 2021, should be made immediately available for reading and reuse
through Europe PMC, without embargo. 



For more information about joining Europe PMC as a funder, visit our website:
http://europepmc.org/Joining




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THURSDAY, 14 JANUARY 2021


EUROPE PMC IN 2020: A YEAR REVIEW



The year 2020 was marked by the global COVID-19 pandemic and the Europe PMC
team, like many others around the world, started to work from home. Scientific
literature is at the heart of scientific research and during these extraordinary
times, Europe PMC worked on improving existing services, building new features,
increasing the full text content by including the full text of COVID-19
preprints and improving full text browsing, supporting text and data mining and
engaging with the Europe PMC community. Despite the circumstances, 2020 was a
busy year for Europe PMC, so let’s look back at the main achievements and the
new features implemented in Europe PMC last year.


SERVICE FOR USERS

2020 was a year of great partnerships! Europe PMC partnered with Scite to
integrate smart citations on the Europe PMC platform. These smart citations
provide the excerpt of text surrounding the citation, the section of the article
in which the reference is mentioned, and indicates whether the citing study
provides supporting or disputing evidence. Users can easily find smart citations
in the Citations & Impact tab of the articles for which smart citations are
available. Read more about smart citations in Europe PMC here.









Europe PMC also partnered with the Medical Research Council (MRC), the UK
Collaborative on Development Research (UKCDR) and the Global Research
Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness (GLoPID-R) to make COVID-19
grant data more widely available via the Europe PMC COVID-19 grant finder. Over
2,127 grants from 27 international funders have been included. Read more here.






It is now even easier to link an article to the ORCID profile with the new ORCID
claiming button implemented on the Europe PMC article page. 



Europe PMC also supported researchers funded by Europe PMC funders to comply
with Plan S by implementing new functionality in the Europe PMC plus manuscript
submission system. 




FULL TEXT SEARCHING AND BROWSING

In 2020, Europe PMC also made improvements to preprint versions, aggregating all
versions of a preprint together and displaying only the most recent versions of
a preprint in the search results. Users can navigate through different preprint
versions by using the preprint history menu. Read more here.



Europe PMC links preprints to the peer reviewed version of the article if it is
available in Europe PMC. Last year, finding published versions of preprints was
made easier by the new search functionality for preprints, the “published
version” filter.



As a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Europe PMC also implemented a COVID-19
search banner to make it easier for users to find the latest COVID-19 related
articles. The yellow banner can be found on top of Europe PMC web pages.




CONTENT ENHANCEMENT

During the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers have published results rapidly,
usually through preprints. In July 2020, Europe PMC supported by Wellcome in
partnership with the UK Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Swiss National
Science Foundation (SNSF), started to index full text COVID-19 preprints. This
initiative has made over 13,000 full text COVID-19 preprints available for
reading and reuse via a standard Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) XML format,
alongside peer reviewed full text articles. The preprints with an open license
can also be programmatically accessed and downloaded for text mining, allowing
deeper analysis of the COVID-19 research landscape. Read more about this
initiative here.



Europe PMC collaborated with additional preprint servers. Preprint abstracts
from Beilstein Archives, Research Square, SSRN and Authorea are now searchable
in Europe PMC as well as the full text COVID-19 preprints from bioRxiv,
chemRxiv, medRxiv, Research Square and SSRN.


SUPPORTING TEXT AND DATA MINING

Europe PMC also welcomed three new annotation providers: OntoGene, PheneBank and
Metagenomics (EMERALD) which provide annotations on cell, cell lines, clinical
drugs, molecular processes, organ tissues, pathway, anatomy, phenotype and
metagenomics concepts. Users can now find over 1.3 billion annotations covering
42 different annotation types in Europe PMC.



SciLite annotations, the powerful tool for highlighting annotations in Europe
PMC, gained a new look in 2020. The new version of SciLite includes new
annotations types, a new panel interface and improved features such as the
chemical and protein structure viewers that allow readers to visualise and
interact with the structures directly on the article page. 




USER COMMUNITY

Early last year, Europe PMC connected with the Europe PMC API community to
release an API use case page where programmatic users can share the applications
they have created using Europe PMC APIs.




In March 2020, Europe PMC released a video showing how different users such as
researchers, policy makers, biocurators and innovators use Europe PMC.





Europe PMC continued to run regular webinars on various aspects of Europe PMC.
We appreciated the questions and feedback we received from many attendees.




“I learned about Europe PMC and the way it is connected with databases such as
OMIM, ENA, InterPro, Mouse genome informatics, etc.” 




“The Europe PMC is really comprehensive and fun to use”




“It was informative as I never used Europe PMC. Thanks”




Europe PMC participated in the eLife Innovation Sprint 2020 working on the
projects convidpreprints.com and Annotate them all.  In mid September, the team
also participated in the conferences Reproducibility, Replicability and Trust in
Science (RRTS20) and OASPA2020 with posters and lightning talk on ‘Full text
COVID-19 preprints in Europe PMC’, ‘Connecting research resources  - building
the PID Graph in Europe PMC’ and ‘Global Grants DOIs in Europe PMC’.  




Last November, Europe PMC open-sourced Text-annotator, a JavaScript library to
locate and annotate plain text in HTML. Text annotator is used in Europe PMC to
highlight article title, snippets and biological entities via SciLite
annotations. Read more here. The Europe PMC team also published the article
‘Europe PMC in 2020’ giving a snapshot of what Europe PMC has to offer
researchers.

 

Europe PMC is glad to have been able to develop and implement new features to
support users' needs in 2020. The team will continue to make it easier for users
to read and extract information from the scientific literature in 2021.




If you are interested to find out what we will be working on in 2021, take a
look at Europe PMC’s road map and leave a comment or email us if you have
questions.

Connect with us via Twitter and help to share the developments at Europe PMC in
2021. Programmatic users can subscribe to Europe PMC’s developer forum to leave
questions. 





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