Europe PMC

Hello, Bluesky!👋 We are excited to connect with you!🌟 Europe PMC is an open database of global life science research - discover articles, preprints, theses, grants, and more. We talk about scholarly communication, open science, bioinformatics, and meta research. Follow us and join the conversation!

OpenAlex is consulting the community on a proposed new approach to describing OA — separating access, location and licence at the level of individual research works. Read the proposal and share your views 👇 blog.openalex.org/is-it-time-t...

Who funds UK health research? Where? And how is investment changing? MRC and Europe PMC are building a dashboard to make UK health research funding data easier to find, compare and reuse. Read more: blog.europepmc.org/2026/09/buil...

Researchfish closes in July 2027. When UKRI last went to tender, it found no viable alternative product. Kyle Deme (OpenAlex) and I think that was the wrong question, read this blog to find out more blog.openalex.org/after-resear...

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We are EMBL: Rajat Bhatnagar on automating the hunt for software bugs www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/p...

NOT ALL #AI IS CHATGPT: SCIENTIFIC AI NEEDS OPEN DATA AlphaFold was only possible because of decades of #OpenData Do restrictive licences give you control, or just a feeling of it? Dr. Bastian Drees - @embl.org - at our 14 April webinar with @europepmc.org 📺 youtu.be/BprlLw6CRyI #OpenScience

#OPENDATA IS GREATER THAN THE SUM OF ITS PARTS Data becomes more valuable when combined. Restrictive licensing cuts off that potential Dr. David Hulcoop, from @opentargets.org, explained at our 14 April webinar with @europepmc.org 📺 youtu.be/BprlLw6CRyI #AI #OpenScience

RRIDs are now integrated into Europe PMC via SciLite and annotations, helping connect literature to the research resources behind the science. Nearly 1 mln RRIDs are now discoverable in Europe PMC. blog.europepmc.org/2026/05/from... cc @rrids.bsky.social @scicrunch.bsky.social @europepmc.org

Vague mentions in research papers like "anti-GFP antibody" making research difficult to reproduce? RRIDs uniquely identify key resources and over 1 million are now discoverable in Europe PMC! Find out more here: blog.europepmc.org/2026/05/from... @rrids.bsky.social @scicrunch.bsky.social #PhDSky

WHO REALLY BENEFITS FROM RESTRICTIVE LICENCES? Publishers suggest restrictive licences, then sell the commercial rights to #AI companies So who really gains, and who loses out? Dr. Ben White at our 14 April webinar with @europepmc.org 📺 youtu.be/BprlLw6CRyI #OpenScience #OpenAccess

RESTRICTIVE LICENCES DON'T STOP AI: THEY STOP THE OPEN COMMUNITY Publishers can still sell the rights to #AI companies, explained Melissa Harrison from @europepmc.org at our 14 April joint webinar. Result: you're only keeping your work from #OpenScience. 📺 youtu.be/BprlLw6CRyI #OpenAccess

Biomedical figures are hard to reuse for AI training, literature databases simply can't search them. Our team leader Melissa Harrison is on it. 💪 She's leading the FAIR-Figures BioFAIR Pathfinder Project to make publication figures searchable and AI-ready with the Europe PMC team! #FAIRData

FRIDAY=SHARING & CARING! WHO DOES #COPYRIGHT REALLY HOLD BACK? Not the big players, Dr. @kieramcneice.bsky.social (personal capacity) explained at our 14 April webinar with @europepmc.org. They can afford the licences and the legal risk. #Researchers can't. 📺 youtu.be/BprlLw6CRyI #AI #OpenScience

📣Tomorrow: Closed Licences, Closed Doors webinar! Join us and @knowledgerights21.org to find out about open licensing, AI, and the future of research impact! 🗓️ 14 April | ⏰ 10:00 BST/11:00 CEST There's still time to register 👉 embl-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #OpenScience #AcademicSky 🧪

📣 @force11.bsky.social working group has released Typology of Data Uses! The framework is anchored on three dimensions of data use: Access, User, and Application. They invite you to give feedback so read their blog and let them know what you think! 👉 makedatacount.org/read-our-blo... #OpenScience

ONE WEEK TO GO: CLOSED LICENCES, CLOSED DOORS Does a restrictive licence protect your #research from #AI, or just limit its impact? Join @europepmc.org & KR21 on Tuesday, 14 April (11 CEST/10 BST) to discuss! 🔗 knowledgerights21.org/news-story/w... #OpenScience #copyright #OpenAccess

Do restrictive licences stop AI from using your research? Or do they just close doors to collaboration? Join us and @knowledgerights21.org for “Closed Licences, Closed Doors” on open licensing, AI, and the future of research impact. 🗓️ 14 April ⏰ 10:00 BST 🔗 embl-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 🧪

Did you see?? 👀 We're on the ROR blog! We teamed up with @scilifelab.se to link their ROR ID to 16,500+ articles in our corpus, making years of supported research more discoverable! Read all about it here: ror.org/blog/2026-03... #OpenScience #OpenMetadata

Service update: The ORCID Claiming tool has been temporarily disabled, because of technical issues. Our team is actively working on a fix, and we appreciate your patience. Thanks for bearing with us, we’ll update as soon as things are back to normal.

📣 ROR Community Call: 26 March 2026 Jagadeeswararao Poluru, our Senior Data Engineer, and Alma Nilsson, @scilifelab.se Project Coordinator, are teaming up to share how we tackled real challenges using ROR IDs. We're RORing to share our work with you! 🦁 Sign up: crossref.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Closed licences, closed doors. We're hosting a webinar with @kr21.bsky.social exploring how licensing shapes real-world research impact, from @opentargets.org to pandemic response. Speaker panel reveal soon 👀 🗓️ 14 April ⏰ 10:00 BST 🔗 embl-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #OpenScience #AcademicSky 🧪

Did you see?? The Global Biodata Coalition secured a €5 million grant from the European Commission! Supporting a sustainable future for biological data. Read about it here: globalbiodata.org/european-com... #OpenAccess #OpenInfrastructure #OpenData

Europe PMC Library started with conversations with users like you! You told us saving papers for later was a must-have, so we created Library (beta). We’re still shaping it, and your feedback can guide what comes next. Give it a try and tell us what you think 👇 europepmc.org #AcademicChatter

That’s a wrap on today’s POSI V2 webinar by @barcelonadori.bsky.social. Across @crossref.bsky.social, @datacite.org, @doaj.bsky.social, and Europe PMC, one message stood out: Principles drive real change when embedded in governance and daily operations. Follow #POSIv2 for our speaker highlights.

Melissa Harrison on how #EuropePMC applies POSI to sustainability: • Moving to open-first code with documentation for reuse • Preserving software via @softwareheritage.org POSI shapes our funder engagement and long-term planning, and is embedded in our next funding application. #POSIv2

Joanna Ball from @doaj.bsky.social on adopting POSI: • Value-led decision making • Clearer articulation of operations • Alignment with community expectations POSI has informed governance changes, community-owned metadata, and stronger reserves. POSI is a community of practice. #POSIv2

Matt Buys from @datacite.org explains how POSI V2 was refined, focusing on community input. What changed: - Clearer expectations - Stronger trust via operational transparency - Better continuity planning - Sustainability beyond funding POSI V2: openscholarlyinfrastructure.org #POSIv2

Lucy Ofiesh shares how POSI shaped practice at @crossref.bsky.social POSI informs decisions, driving: • Open reference data • Annual public data dumps • Regular, transparent governance reviews • A community-reusable patent non-assertion policy • A reserve fund and financial policy #POSIv2

📌 What is POSI? The Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure, developed in 2015, guide governance and sustainability of open infrastructure. Designed to build trust through transparency and community accountability. POSI V1.0 archived version: openscholarlyinfrastructure.org/posi-v1.0/ #POSIv2

📢 Curious how POSI V2 guides real-world infrastructure sustainability? @barcelonadori.bsky.social's Webinar “How POSI V2 Guides the Sustainability of Open Infrastructure Organisations” is happening now. We’ll be sharing key takeaways from every talk. Follow along at #POSIv2 #OpenInfrastructure

Don't miss Monday's webinar on how POSI v2 works in practice! Hear from speakers from Europe PMC, @crossref.bsky.social @datacite.org, and @doaj.bsky.social on applying POSI in real-world contexts. Sign up now: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #OpenSource #OpenData #OpenInfrastructure

Software drives science, but it’s often invisible 😩 Well not if the SoFAIR project has anything to do with it! SoFAIR uncovered hidden software mentions in Europe PMC, making them searchable, traceable, and reusable first-class bibliographic entries! Read more: blog.europepmc.org/2026/02/sofa...

How does POSI v2 work in practice? Our team lead Melissa Harrison joins @crossref.bsky.social @datacite.org @doaj.bsky.social to explore how open infrastructure is applying POSI in real-world contexts. Sign up details below 👇 @melissaharrison76.bsky.social #OpenSource #OpenData #OpenInfrastructure

Ever found the perfect paper… and then had no time to read it? 😩 We hear you. Introducing Europe PMC’s Library beta version where you can save up to 25 papers to come back to later. Just sign in with a free account and start saving. See how it works in our demo👇 #PhDsky #AcademicSky #PhDchat

Interested in preprints? Check out this report to find out more. Including @ripplingideas.bsky.social predictions for preprint trends in 2026. 👀 #Preprint #OpenScience #AcademicChatter

During 'Data science for life scientists' you will get hands-on training on: – APIs and Python – Data preprocessing and visualisation – Core machine learning methods – Deep learning approaches – Large language models Applications are open until 1 March 2026: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve... 🧬🖥️📊