Europe PMC Team

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-- the manuscript submission system for authors supported by Europe PMC
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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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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
source content and workflow management components that will enable
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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.
Collaborating to build this open source technology is not only a
sustainable approach, but also very much aligned with our mission to
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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
adoption and active community support.
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[Strong partnerships and open source solutions can transform research
communication. We're eager to get started. As with all our efforts, we
will post updates here and throughout our
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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.

Europe PMC and Coko Announce Partnership

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Jo McEntyre, EMBL-EBI; Thomas Lemberger, EMBO; Mark Patterson, eLife;
Kristen Rattan, Collaborative Knowledge Foundation; Alfonso Valencia,
Barcelona Supercomputer Centre.

The use of preprints in the life sciences offers tantalising
opportunities to change the way research results are communicated and
reused, and the work of ASAPbio has been key in engaging the scientific
community to promote their uptake. We fully support these goals, and
consequently submitted a response to the recent ASAPbio Request for
Applications (RFA). In light of ASAPbio's understandable recent decision
to suspend the RFA process for four months, we are making our proposal
public [here](http://tinyurl.com/lxaa9hs){target="_blank"
rel="noopener"}, to encourage and contribute to ongoing, open
discussions on these matters.  
  
[[Our consortium is led by the European Bioinformatics Institute
(EMBL-EBI), with collaborators in the Collaborative Knowledge
Foundation, the Barcelona Supercomputer Centre, eLife and EMBO. We
appreciate that not everyone interested in preprints will have time to
read the [full proposal](http://tinyurl.com/lxaa9hs){target="_blank"
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We put in a response to the RFA because we share the excitement and
enthusiasm that has emerged recently around the use of preprints in the
biological sciences. The reason for our excitement is simple --
alongside the rapid communication of research, we see massive potential
for innovation based on preprint content. We envision that the best
route to enable these goals is through a reasonable number of preprint
servers and services, coordinated through the operation of agreed
community standards. The standards will allow content to be federated
and/or aggregated across servers, depending on the use cases. This model
allows a diversity of approaches to addressing the opportunities and
challenges that preprints
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Between us, we are developing infrastructure and services for publishing
processes, article enrichment, text and data mining tools,
bioinformatics, and mechanisms for data integration and discovery. But
more important than our singular contributions, we are also embedded in
broader researcher and developer communities that are as enthusiastic as
we are about the opportunities for innovation that preprints offer.
Alongside the core elements in the ASAPbio RFA, **the fundamental theme
of our proposal is therefore to enable those communities to engage with
preprint content and contribute to moving scientific communication
"beyond the PDF".**
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[[  
Our proposal is to combine existing and emerging open-source software
and open data infrastructure to facilitate the ingestion of preprints
from any source into a community archive and then share the content in
different ways. This satisfies not only the scientific imperative of
rapidly discoverable research results, but also creates a platform for
innovation that has the promise to make information discovery faster and
more effective in the future.
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[[  
In short, the central services we envisage will enable any interested
party to develop "plug-in" applications that can be used -- optionally
and in any order -- in any part of the system. Some applications might
work on individual documents prior to release (for example in quality
control); others might work on the collection as a whole, post release;
some might be fundamental "mission-critical" steps (like document
conversions); and some might be more experimental. **We propose to
engage the developer and text- and data-mining communities through open
challenges** to invent new applications based on preprints. No-one knows
where the next "killer app" will come from, so we want to foster broad
participation and expose these developments to the wider scientific
community.]{style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"}]{style="font-family: \"arial\";"}  
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The top priority is to support the **uptake of preprints by the
scientific community and ensure their citability and discoverability**.
But in order to realise transformative developments in the future, there
are necessities beyond
this.]{style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"}]{style="font-family: \"arial\";"}  
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Most critical among these is the **ability to reuse preprints**. By
this, we mean not only that the content has a license that supports
reuse (the CC-BY license), but also that the content is readily
available as a whole, so that would-be application developers and
text-miners do not have to struggle to gather content together. Most
peer-reviewed literature is still subject to access and reuse
restrictions and is highly distributed -- with preprints we have a
unique opportunity to support unrestricted and comprehensive reuse from
the
outset.]{style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"}]{style="font-family: \"arial\";"}  

  
Secondly, **quality metadata and the consistent application of standards
are essential**. We care about open standards like JATS for structuring
the XML of full text articles, and are open to discussion about how this
may evolve to support preprints in the future. Author names with ORCIDs,
machine readable data citation, correctly identified institutions and
funding sources are all critical for a connected research management
ecosystem. Given these building blocks, others could develop tools that
reduce the repetitive reporting burden on researchers, or services and
indicators to give a wider stakeholder group a better understanding of
the influence and impact of research.

Finally, **a governance structure that represents the interests of the
community** is a necessity, as services around preprints need to remain
current and address evolving user needs over time.

This approach to **preprints infrastructure lends itself to reuse**
within different disciplinary contexts, providing a basis for
cross-disciplinary standards of core elements, yet allowing adaptation
by those communities according to their specific scientific
requirements.

Central services are a crucial part of biology today. It is hard to
imagine how biology could progress without resources such as the wwPDB,
or the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration. We are
excited about preprints because they offer a **tremendous opportunity to
move science forward in parallel with these data resources**, enabling
integration of research outputs and knowledge discovery. We welcome
comments and discussion as we move towards these shared goals,
supporting science into the future.
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Jo McEntyre, EMBL-EBI; Thomas Lemberger, EMBO; Mark Patterson, eLife; Kristen Rattan, Collaborative Knowledge Foundation; Alfonso Valencia, Barcelona Supercomputer Centre. The use of preprints in the life sciences offers tantalising opportunities to change the way research results are communicated and reused, and the work of ASAPbio has been key in engaging the scientific community to promote their uptake.

Messaggi di Rogue Scholar

Making science open with the new Europe PMC plus

Prepare for the new Europe PMC plus

Europe PMC and Coko Announce Partnership

Preprints and the ASAPBio “Central” Services