Europe PubMed Central

1. Europe PubMed Central

2. Contents Europe PMC: a summary How content is added to Europe PMC Benefits of a Europe-wide subject-based repository The Europe PMC Funders’ Group Services provided to the Europe PMC Funders’ Group Support for Europe PMC funders and their grantholders Costs Conclusion

3. Europe PubMed Central (Europe PMC) A service of the Europe PMC Funders' Group working in partnership with European Bioinformatics Institute, University of Manchester, British Library, in cooperation with the NCBI. It includes content provided to the PubMed Central International archive by participating publishers. 26 funders mandate deposition of research outputs into Europe PMC, including ERC, MRC, Wellcome Trust, CRUK, FWF. Provides free access to ~ 3m full text, peer-reviewed research papers, + 28m bibliographic records derived from PubMed, Agricola, Patents and clinical guidelines.

4. How content is added to Europe PMC Route A: By publishers who make all their content available at the time of publication (e.g. PLOS, BMC, eLife) Route B: By publisherswho make individual articlesavailable at the time of publication (e.g. articles in hybrid journals ) Route C: By authors who self-archive the author manuscripts in PMC/Europe PMC using the Europe PMC plus deposition service (e.g. articles published in Science) Route D: By publishers who deposit the peer-reviewed manuscript (authors also have to “sign-off the deposit) (e.g. Elsevier articles for NIH, NPG content for Wellcome [and others])

5. Benefits of a Europe-wide, subject-based repository Greater visibility of research findings All articles in a single repository, fully accessible from PubMed and Google as well as Europe PMC Research process enhanced Innovative features - citation networks; articles integrated with underlying data-sets; text mining Greater compliance with funder mandate Publishers can (and do) deposit in PMC Integration with Institutional Repositories (IR’s) Content can be shared with IR’s Integrated with ORCID

6. Greater visibility of research findings

7. Research process enhanced – innovative services (1) View “Cited by” and “Cites the following” data Sort results by times cited

8. Research process enhanced – innovative services (2) Acromine - disambiguation tool Evidence Finder - text mining technologies

9. Integration with institutional repositories (IRs) Good working relationship with European initiatives such as Driver and OpenAire • Driver harvests Europe PMC metadata • OpenAire mines the full text articles to retrieve FP7 funding information Content can be shared with IRs • OAI interface available for IRs to pull in relevant content • Metadata and OA full text articles pushed to Repository Junction which is working to push articles to the relevant university IR Win-win situation • IRs can still showcase the outputs from their institution • Content is more easily discoverable through Europe PMC

10. Europe PMC Funders’ Group All Europe PMC funders are represented in the Europe PMC Funders’ Group, which: Steers the direction of the service Meets annually to review and approve the annual development objectives Receives regular updates on development progress

11. Europe PMC: services provided Repository service A fully managed and highly-available, 24x7 web-based repository service Manuscript deposition service A manuscript submission system to allow your researchers to self-archive their papers Publisher arrangements Arrangements are in place with a number of leading publishers to ensure that all research papers that are funded by a Europe PMC member (and for which an Article Processing Charge (APC) fee has been paid) are automatically made available through Europe PMC. In cases where a funder needs to liaise directly with a publisher (e.g. Elsevier) we can help facilitate this. Helpdesk facility Grant holders have access to a dedicated helpdesk facility Project Management The service has a Funders’ Group project manager

12. Support provided to the Funders’ Group Researchers funded by Europe PMC members receive phone and email support from the helpdesk: Depositing manuscripts using Europe PMC plus Linking their grants to their papers using Europe PMC plus The Europe PMC service and Funders’ Group project managers ensure: The aims and objectives for Europe PMC approved by the Funders’ Group are attained Funders are updated regarding service developments Funders receive support engaging their researchers with Europe PMC and open access

13. Costs - operational Europe PMC funders contribute to both the operational and development costs of the service. Operational costs are calculated based on the funder’s annual research spend (ARS) as a percentage of the total ARS of the Funders’ Group. This table provides some crude estimates to demonstrate the operational costs:

14. Costs - development In addition to the operational costs, Europe PMC funders also make funds available to support the development of the repository. Funder contributions to the cost of development are calculated based on the funder’s ARS, and equate to roughly one quarter of the operational costs borne by the funder per annum. For example, a “medium” sized funder which is paying £50k a year to support operational costs, would also be asked to contribute around £12k to support R&D. Development ensures Europe PMC remains the competitive resource it currently is.

15. Conclusion The Europe PMC funders have developed a function-rich and well-used repository Europe PMC is: cost effective will help to increase visibility of research you fund will provide you with the means of implementing your OA policies

16. Contact Europe PMC The next opportunities to join Europe PMC are in May 2015 and April 2016. Funders who wish to join Europe PMC in May 2015 will need to confirm their commitment by January 2015. For more information on joining Europe PMC contact: CecyMarden c.marden@wellcome.ac.uk Europe PMC Funders’ Group Project Manager

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