Have you ever wanted a JBC article and been irritated by the need to type ‘Journal of Biological Chemistry’ into your literature search engine? Have you ever struggled to remember what ‘PNAS’ stands for? – ‘Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America’ in case you wanted to know! The new vernacular journal title search feature in UK PubMed Central solves both of these problems.

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[The report of the Working Group chaired by Dame Janet Finch about Expanding Access to Published Research Findings has been published. This recommends a programme of action to enable more people to read and use the publications arising from research. Better, faster communication of research results will bring benefits for public services and for economic growth.

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[Last month, the wettest April in the UK since records began, there was also a deluge of articles in the popular press about open access.]{style=“font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;”}   [This is a round-up of some of the articles (and perhaps notable by their absence are any articles that are behind a paywall!). ]{style=“font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;”}

[Are you interested in finding highly cited articles? If so then the new features in UKPMC will be of value to you. Search results can now be sorted by the number of times articles have been cited.]{style=“font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;”} [Each search result is now shown with a count of the number of articles citing that record.

UKPMC Labs is a new component of the UKPMC website, which will showcase novel applications based on UKPMC content. The first application to be featured on the Labs website is EvidenceFinder, an application that surfaces “facts” based on a user’s search terms from full text articles. The user is presented with a list of questions based on the search terms.

The graphic above shows articles available in UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) – read-only articles: green; Open Access articles: blue – compared to the number of abstracts in PubMed.

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