Eight lead­ing bio­med­ical research fund­ing organ­i­sa­tions, includ­ing Gov­ern­ment bod­ies, Research Coun­cils and Char­i­ties, have approved fund­ing to fur­ther develop the UK PubMed Cen­tral web­site (www.ukpmc.ac.uk) over the next three years. The devel­op­ment will be car­ried out by the British Library, the Uni­ver­sity of Man­ches­ter and the Euro­pean Mol­e­c­u­lar Biol­ogy Laboratory’s Euro­pean Bioin­for­mat­ics Insti­tute (EMBL-EBI), in close con­sul­ta­tion with the UK’s bio­med­ical and health researchers.

Since being launched in Jan­u­ary 2007, the UKPubMed Cen­tral has expanded to offer 1.3 mil­lion full-text, peer-reviewed research papers through its online dig­i­tal archive. The new and improved fea­tures will include direct links to the 18 mil­lion records cur­rently avail­able on the US ver­sion of PubMed as part of the Euro­pean Bioin­for­mat­ics Institute’s Cit­eX­plore bib­li­o­graphic tool; new ways to extract bio­log­i­cal infor­ma­tion from research papers using text analy­sis and data-mining tools; an easy-to-use, intu­itive inter­face; and access to con­tent not included in tra­di­tional jour­nal lit­er­a­ture — clin­i­cal guide­lines, tech­ni­cal reports and con­fer­ence pro­ceed­ings. These devel­op­ments are pro­jected to sig­nif­i­cantly enhance UK PubMed Central’s acces­si­bil­ity and make it a valu­able first point of call for the UK’s life sci­ences researchers.

UK PubMed Cen­tral is part of a net­work of PubMed Cen­tral (PMC) Inter­na­tional repos­i­to­ries. Based on PMC, the US National Insti­tutes of Health (NIH) free dig­i­tal archive of bio­med­ical and life sci­ences jour­nal lit­er­a­ture, UK PubMed Cen­tral pro­vides a sta­ble, per­ma­nent, and free-to-access online dig­i­tal archive of full-text, peer-reviewed research publications.

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