About Europe PMC
What is Europe PMC?
Europe PMC is an open science platform that enables access to a worldwide collection of life science publications and preprints from trusted sources around the globe.
Europe PMC is developed by EMBL-EBI. It is a partner of PubMed Central and a repository of choice for many international science funders.
Free, transparent, and community-driven, Europe PMC is your gateway to life science research.
Discover more about the benefits and scope of Europe PMC.
Access more content
We have over 5 million more abstracts than PubMed.
Europe PMC also contains Patents, NHS (National Health Service) guidelines, and Agricola records.
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Search abstracts and full text in a single search
On Europe PMC you can search all the content (abstracts and article full text) in a single search, whereas PubMed and PMC are separate resources.
Sort by ‘times cited’ to get straight to highly cited articles.
Get credit for your work
ORCID is a unique identifier for researchers, which distinguishes you from other researchers.
In Europe PMC you can claim your Europe PMC articles with your ORCID and get credit for your work.
Link to public databases from articles
Explore public gene, protein and chemical compound databases directly from the article, including UniProt, Protein Data Bank (PDBe), and the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA).
You can highlight and browse keywords such as gene names, organisms and diseases, through our textmining technologies.
Partnered with PubMed Central
Europe PMC includes resources from PubMed and PubMed Central (PMC), projects developed at the NCBI in the USA. Europe PMC is part of a network of PMC International (PMCI) repositories that also includes PMC Canada.
Search biomedical grants
Use our grant finder to search biomedical research grants awarded to the 23,000 Principal Investigators supported by the Europe PMC funders.
Services for PIs
PIs who are supported by the Europe PMC funders can submit accepted manuscripts, link their articles to grant information and view citation statistics using the Europe PMC Plus system.
Posters and Downloads
Information Posters:
- 'How do I make my research open access through Europe PMC?'
- 'How does Europe PMC differ from PubMed and PMC?'
Other downloads:
Annual Reports
The Europe PMC Annual Reports summarise the highlights from the years: 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016.
Further information
For more information on Europe PMC, read the article: Europe PMC: a full-text literature database for the life sciences and platform for innovation., McEntyre, J., et al. Nucleic Acids Res. (2015) 43 (Database issue): D1042-D1048.