ERC-EUROPEPMC-SUP-2013

Support towards the Europe PMC initiative – Contribution for 2013

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The proposed action will support the European Research Council (ERC) in the implementation of its Open Access policy for projects funded in the Life Sciences domain. . The proposed project aims to fulfil the following four main objectives:

to enable ERC funded researchers to use Europe PMC as a repository for their manuscripts, providing easy accessibility and wide visibility;

to increase the visibility of the ERC as a funder of cutting-edge research by providing a clearly visible link between the publications emanating from ERC funded projects and the associated grants;

to raise awareness - among and beyond the community of ERC funded researchers - of the ERC's commitment to support Open Access of scientific publications;

to contribute to the effective dissemination of research results.

A grant of €90,000 is requested to support these activities.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

Publications and research results published by biomedical and health researchers who received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) are now freely available online.

Descrizione progetto (Article)

The Scientific Council of the ERC has adopted an open-access policy. All peer-reviewed publications from ERC-funded research projects are deposited in Internet-accessible libraries after a certain period of time. ERC believes that providing free online access to science literature will ensure that promising research outcomes will be further researched.

A recent FP7 project is helping the ERC implement its open-access strategy for projects regarding the life sciences. The http://europepmc.org/ (ERC-EUROPEPMC-SUP-2013) project suggested that the ERC join the Europe PubMed Central (PMC) Funders' Group and contribute to the costs of running Europe PMC. Europe PMC is an expansion of UKPMC, which was first launched in January 2007 with sponsorship and funding from biomedical research bodies in the United Kingdom.

ERC-funded researchers can now submit their articles via a dedicated deposition service called Europe PMC plus. To increase the visibility of the ERC as a funder of cutting-edge research, researchers are providing a link to ERC grants.

In 2013, over 650 ERC-funded researchers requested a Europe PMC plus account and over 300 author manuscripts were published in Europe PMC and mirrored to PubMed Central and PMC Canada. Furthermore, the researchers linked nearly 650 papers to their grants.

One of the enhancements made to Europe PMC during 2013, though not funded by the ERC grant, was the integration of Europe PMC's website, search systems and web services with ORCID, a website enabling researchers to create and update unique, persistent professional identifiers. Europe PMC also includes text mining-based marked-up text that links to external datasets such as the Protein Data Bank. Another achievement was the development of the Restful web service that provides programmatic access to all of the publications and related information in Europe PMC.

Through a competition, Europe PMC sought to increase public awareness of the literature resources it contains, particularly targeting researchers in the early stage of their careers. This also raised awareness of the open-access policies of the Europe PMC funders.

This unique initiative offers an easily accessible, user-friendly central repository to aid researchers in the search for relevant articles in the life sciences field.