Europe PMC Team

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-- the manuscript submission system for authors supported by Europe PMC
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[Europe PMC is the repository of choice for
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who recommend or require that publications arising from the research
they fund, are made openly available via Europe PMC. Grantees of Europe
PMC funders can deposit their manuscripts for inclusion in Europe PMC
and PMC USA using the Europe PMC plus submission system.
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[The new version of Europe PMC plus released on 1st May 2019 has been
designed to simplify and streamline the submission process. All that's
needed to complete a submission to Europe PMC plus are
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The funding is linked to the publication via an open
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that contains public grant award data from all Europe PMC funders.
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[The submission process itself is very straightforward and is possible
to complete within 10 minutes. In the best case scenario, if a
manuscript is submitted correctly, and is reviewed promptly by the
author, the manuscript can be made available in Europe PMC in as little
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the start of this project just under a year ago, the new system has been
developed as an open source application in partnership with the
Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (Coko), eLife, Hindawi, and other
community partners.
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[To learn how to use the new Europe PMC plus, and see what a submission
process looks like, please visit our
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featuring short tutorial
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We are delighted to announce the launch of the new Europe PMC Plus – the manuscript submission system for authors supported by Europe PMC funders. Europe PMC is the repository of choice for 29 international life sciences funders, who recommend or require that publications arising from the research they fund, are made openly available via Europe PMC.

Making science open with the new Europe PMC plus

Europe PMC is getting ready to release an upgraded version of Europe PMC
plus, a system for PIs supported by [Europe PMC
funders](https://europepmc.org/Funders) to submit accepted manuscripts
for inclusion in Europe PMC and PMC. The new version of Europe PMC plus
has an improved design, and new features for creating and reviewing
manuscript submissions.

The new Europe PMC plus will be released on 1 May 2019. Just three
things are needed to complete a submission to Europe PMC plus:

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[The manuscript and all related figures, tables, and supplementary
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[Researchers submitting manuscripts to Europe PMC plus must be funded by
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After a manuscript is submitted to Europe PMC plus, the submission goes
through quality assurance before being processed into XML, HTML, and PDF
versions for archiving, indexing, and display in Europe PMC and PMC.
Before being made publicly available on Europe PMC, these web versions
are made available to the reviewing researcher for a final review, to
make any needed corrections.

The new submission system offers an updated design, clearer workflows,
and new features, including an improved preview of submitted files, the
ability to view submitted files and processed web versions side by side,
and improved communication tools, which simplify creating and reviewing
manuscript submissions.

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Since supporting open science is an important part of Europe PMC's
mission,  the new Europe PMC plus is a fully open source application. It
is based on [PubSweet](https://pubsweet.coko.foundation/), a free,
open-source framework for building state-of-the-art publishing
platforms, designed to be modular and flexible, so that individual
components can be easily reused and adapted for various workflows.

The new Europe PMC plus has been developed in collaboration with the
Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (Coko) and community partners
including eLife and Hindawi. PubSweet community members subscribe to a
common vision of creating open technologies that improve the speed of
research.

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To find out more about Europe PMC's partnership with Coko to develop a
web-based, open-source content and workflow management platform for
manuscript ingest and processing, see
<http://blog.europepmc.org/2018/05/europe-pmc-and-coko-announce-partnership.html>.

For more information about the other platforms that are built on top of
PubSweet [explore
examples](https://pubsweet.coko.foundation/#/Examples%20of%20platforms%20built%20with%20PubSweet).

For the latest updates on Europe PMC plus and other news from Europe
PMC, follow us on Twitter at
[@EuropePMC_news](https://twitter.com/EuropePMC_news).


Europe PMC is getting ready to release an upgraded version of Europe PMC plus, a system for PIs supported by Europe PMC funders to submit accepted manuscripts for inclusion in Europe PMC and PMC. The new version of Europe PMC plus has an improved design, and new features for creating and reviewing manuscript submissions. The new Europe PMC plus will be released on 1 May 2019.

Prepare for the new Europe PMC plus

 

 

 

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are excited to announce a new partnership to develop web-based, open
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framework and will contribute to the vision of creating modern,
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[Europe PMC will be joining a community of publishers interested in
collaborating to provide the research and scientific community better
tools and platforms for the publication and broad dissemination of
research.
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are also partners in this endeavor.
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"We're delighted to team up with CoKo and partners to build an open
source deposition system for accepted manuscripts -- a central part of
our support for the Europe PMC funders and their open access policies.
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[Coko builds and supports community-driven open source technology and
"born open" best practices for software development. The community
consists of organizations adopting or using Coko technologies,
partnering open source technology builders, industry organizations,
standards bodies and affiliates. While open source software is freely
available to all, successful open source projects are ones with wide
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[Strong partnerships and open source solutions can transform research
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The Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (CoKo) and Europe PMC are excited to announce a new partnership to develop web-based, open source content and workflow management components that will enable ingest and processing of manuscripts. The system will be built on Coko’s PubSweet technology framework and will contribute to the vision of creating modern, digital-first technologies that improve the speed of research.

Messages de Rogue Scholar

Making science open with the new Europe PMC plus

Prepare for the new Europe PMC plus

Europe PMC and Coko Announce Partnership