UKPMC: a full text article resource for the life sciences

Johanna McEntyre(European Bioinformatics Institute), S Ananiadou(European Bioinformatics Institute), Scott James Andrews(European Bioinformatics Institute), William J. Black(European Bioinformatics Institute), Richard Boulderstone(European Bioinformatics Institute), P. J. Buttery(European Bioinformatics Institute), David Chaplin(European Bioinformatics Institute), Sneha Chevuru(European Bioinformatics Institute), N. Cobley(European Bioinformatics Institute), L.‐A. Coleman(European Bioinformatics Institute), Paul Davey(European Bioinformatics Institute), Bishnupriya Gupta(European Bioinformatics Institute), L. Haji-Gholam(European Bioinformatics Institute), C. Hawkins(European Bioinformatics Institute), A. J. Horne(European Bioinformatics Institute), Simon J. Hubbard(European Bioinformatics Institute), Jee-Hyub Kim(European Bioinformatics Institute), I. Lewin(European Bioinformatics Institute), Vic Lyte(European Bioinformatics Institute), Ross MacIntyre(European Bioinformatics Institute), S. Mansoor(European Bioinformatics Institute), Luke Mason(European Bioinformatics Institute), John McNaught(European Bioinformatics Institute), Elizabeth Newbold(European Bioinformatics Institute), Chikashi Nobata(European Bioinformatics Institute), Edison Ong(European Bioinformatics Institute), S. Pillai(European Bioinformatics Institute), Dietrich Rebholz‐Schuhmann(European Bioinformatics Institute), Heather Rosie(European Bioinformatics Institute), Ron Rowbotham(European Bioinformatics Institute), C. J. Rupp(European Bioinformatics Institute), Peter Stoehr(European Bioinformatics Institute), Peter Vaughan(European Bioinformatics Institute)
Nucleic Acids Research
November 9, 2010
10.1093/nar/gkq1063
Cited by 61Open Access
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Abstract

UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) is a full-text article database that extends the functionality of the original PubMed Central (PMC) repository. The UKPMC project was launched as the first 'mirror' site to PMC, which in analogy to the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration, aims to provide international preservation of the open and free-access biomedical literature. UKPMC (http://ukpmc.ac.uk) has undergone considerable development since its inception in 2007 and now includes both a UKPMC and PubMed search, as well as access to other records such as Agricola, Patents and recent biomedical theses. UKPMC also differs from PubMed/PMC in that the full text and abstract information can be searched in an integrated manner from one input box. Furthermore, UKPMC contains 'Cited By' information as an alternative way to navigate the literature and has incorporated text-mining approaches to semantically enrich content and integrate it with related database resources. Finally, UKPMC also offers added-value services (UKPMC+) that enable grantees to deposit manuscripts, link papers to grants, publish online portfolios and view citation information on their papers. Here we describe UKPMC and clarify the relationship between PMC and UKPMC, providing historical context and future directions, 10 years on from when PMC was first launched.

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